Why would anyone bother learning SMF? It's shit in comparison to other forum we could have used. It's just that this has been in use to long now to be changed 
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It does the job. No big issues, search is a small issue.
No it's not. It is actually a very decent forum software, and is one of the bigger names out there. I've used PHPBB2 and 3 my whole life, and SMF is probably the only other forum software I'd recommend to anyone besides those two. The issue is not the software. It is that the forum has been updated, upgraded, modified, reinstalled, changed, tweaked, hacked, reinstalled some more without first uninstalling modifications, attacked, hacked some more, modified some more, and eventually had its core files, themes, and database essentially corrupted by said actions.
Losing search is not a small issue. Although I agree it is not a big thing to lose, it shouldn't be lost in the first place. The forum should be fixed, regardless of whether the search function comes back or not. I'm sure the webmasters are probably in agreement that these bugs are annoying to deal with, and it comes from years of different people trying to set things up the way they believe is best, or "fix" things for the above reasons.
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