About a year ago we did two things which were very important for anyone using Wikidot. First, we sat down and designed a new way of showing pages, which became the ListPages module and the dynamic template system.

Last night and this morning some of you commented on this blog that your site searches were not working. We would have responded immediately - sleep is a thing of the past for the Wikidot team - but notifications also mysteriously stopped working.

I don't like announcing work before it's ready to deliver. The infamous "New homepage coming soon" has been sitting announced but undelivered for months now. Part of the reason for starting this blog is to improve the way we in the Wikidot team communicate with you.

Sunday morning, and we (myself and my team) owe the Wikidot community an apology. On 24 June we migrated to a new search engine, and on 25 June Brunhilda reported that "My search box doesn't give any results, whatever you put inside…"

I really like the idea of using Wikidot to make Wikidot. This just seems honest. So it's lovely to see the http://themes.wikidot.com project starting to take off. This is a site where anyone can submit, rank, and discuss themes. And as many people have already found (over 1,500 site admins have already used themes from this site), it's now easy to use an external theme for your Wikidot site.

Searching is very important, as Google proved. Wikidot's search has sometimes been… well, imperfect. So I'm happy to tell you about the new version, which has been rolled out and is working nicely though not yet perfectly.

I'd like to offer everyone a Wikidot site. Well, not everyone, but everyone who has joined a Wikidot site but has not yet created one.