Searx is dead, next good fork is searxng. As a long year selfhoster, I am sure next evolution is searxngx.

If i had a nickel for every time i switched from a popular app or service to a more privacy respecting alternative and then quickly after announcing that it will end, i would have 2 nickels, which is not a lot, but its weird it happened twice

Funny that I found out about it this morning and at night it was abandoned. Makes it look like it was one of my projects lol