dear god I used files and typed 'mpg' AND WTF??? got top three pageranks of Lolita Rape, Gang Rape and Dog Fuckers - is this why they need to respect privacy??? Abort! Abort! ...okay 15 minutes later edit: for checking the preferences - I disabled Bing engine and something a less OMFGWTF came up.
I'm using the trouvons.org instance and it's working really well, especially enabling reddit search so you can get very random but interresting answers about the subject. I just miss the !g shortcut of ddg so I can always fallback to google.
I used this as my primary search engine for a little over 6 months, eventually I switched off because of a bug. I would make a search and it would return no results, then I would re-run the search and it would work. Other than that, I had no major complaints about it.
Also, maybe calling it a bug was a little unfair; if it is a timeout, it seems to be working as expected. We'll see. Either way, I really liked it while I was using it, hopefully it gets resolved! Good work SearX contributors! :)
Sometimes legitimate accounts trip a spam filter and get shadow banned, if you go directly to the comment's page (click the time link) there's a `vouch` link you can click to vouch for that person and restore their account.