To the best of my knowledge this is true for *all* of Stardock's sites and has been true for quite some time, the several months mentioned by victorian gray pretty much coincides with the last rash of forum upgrades.
There used to be a quite decent search function on the GalCiv2 site but no more. The best advice is to simply use google but include the following option.
+site:forums.wincustomize.com
You can also just click on google advanced search which will bring up a form where there will be a field for "Search within a site or domain" where you can enter "forums.wincustomize.com" or any other of Stardocks now 12 different forum sites. This doesn't work as well as the old search function particularly if you want to find a reply by a specific user but it works better than nothing.
BTW I haven't seen Andrew around for a bit. He could be a bit gruff and overmoderate the forum issues threads a tad but when he was around things usually got fixed. I suppose he got sick of having to deal with all us forum goers. I kind of miss his presence.
