My browser / operating system: ChromeOS 14541.0.0, Chrome 126.0.0.0, No Flash version detected
when I open explore nothing appears expect a “load more” button that does nothing but music stories and tutorials show projects maybe this is related to the search bug?

Look, as people have said on dozens upon dozens of posts about this, the search function is broken, likely do to the faulty cookies or a server issue. This has been happening for quite some time now. Go to this thread to discuss the bug instead of making another duplicate.

GameCatastrophe0927 wrote:

Look, as people have said on dozens upon dozens of posts about this, the search function is broken, likely do to the faulty cookies or a server issue. This has been happening for quite some time now. Go to this thread to discuss the bug instead of making another duplicate.

I'm not posting about the search bug I'm posting about a different bug btw

Scratch's search engine is currently broken, and all we can do is wait for it to be fixed.
Unfortunately, no one knows when this will be fixed or how to fix it.
This affects everyone on Scratch, so the Scratch Team is aware of the situation.

For now, you can type "site:scratch.mit.edu (search query)" into a search engine like Google to work around this bug.
You should also discuss the bug here: https://scratch.mit.edu/discuss/topic/790866/

This also affects the Explore page, since that's internally based on Scratch's search engine.

izayahthebird wrote:

I'm not posting about the search bug I'm posting about a different bug btw

They're the same bug. The Explore page is the same as the Search page, just designed differently, visually.

Search and Explore are both down and some elements of the Home Page are missing. I won't be surprised if the Scratch Maintenance Screen gets triggered.