I love flyertalk. great board and great people. But it's a mistake for the folks that run this thing not to make an OBVIOUS announcement on the searching problem (like when you get to the FT site). Yes, I realize it's in the announcements, but I too have been trying to search for a while and I figured, based on the silly error message, that I don't have "authorization".

I'm usually very busy...and it just didn't occur to me to check the announcements.

Hopefully FT will take this advice as I'm intending it to be constructive criticism for a (normally) well-run site.

Thank you FT.

(and does anyone know WHEN searching will work again) ?
Never mind - I foud the announcement and it said whenever a new php release is announced or a solution found.

STILL, isn't it possible to replace the message people get with an "authorization error" with the REAL announcement of the problem?