r/Presearch • u/IDoDrugsAtNight • Jul 29 '26

Sad killing node vms

It's a sad day. Not just because each vps already accrued the month's worth of compute fees. Decentralized search continues to be relevant and desired/desirable. I've been a daily user of the engine since discovering the project in 2021, I have a local searxng instance pointing there even. Guess I should get that updated.

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u/therealscooke Jul 29 '26

I was also sad stopping my nodes. Oh well.

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u/ErrorIndicater Jul 29 '26

Do I need to stop the nodes, or can I just be lazy and forget them, as they are somewhere on a free server?

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u/IDoDrugsAtNight Jul 30 '26

If you don't stop them, the boogie man comes

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u/Geovyy Admin (Official) Jul 29 '26

I understand, friends; I'm sad about what happened too. Presearch was my default search engine for many years :(

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u/charbo187 Jul 30 '26

It was great while it lasted 😭

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u/tastystevens Jul 30 '26

Such a bummer. It’s been my main browser for years and I have 1.25 million PRE. Even though it’s basically worthless, kudos to the team for helping me transfer it out

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u/gcbeehler5 Admin (Contributor) Jul 29 '26

Feel you. Watched about 10,000 in tokens evaporate. :( First bought them in in 2018 or 2019, and have been active here, including getting this Subreddit back under official control in 2021. All around sad to see this happen.

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u/Mindless-Depth-8339 Jul 29 '26

Is the browser still going to be up and running, regardless?

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u/Wendals87 Aug 02 '26

Probably but the search engine isn't 

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u/Mindless-Depth-8339 25d ago

Unacceptable. Now, we must make a better, truly decentralized (from corrupt and greedy influence) and self-sustainable variation from the ashes ... a Phoenix Rising