User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: May 30, 2016/@comment-26402117-20160531170923/@comment-1251315-20160531174855

Personally, I think Wikia should place an unclosable notification across the service (in a place that won't annoy people) about the search issue so they're not inundated in S:C tickets or complaints in the comments about search being unusable.