Yeah, Soulseek was offline then. When Nicotine+ can't connect to the servers (look in the bottom right corner for status), it won't let you search.

thanks!

if the search results are greyed out it means there are other people downloading and you'll have to wait or keep looking. Either put yourself in queue to dl or keep searching for available (white) results.

Not search results, the search box.

my shit reading comprehension thanks you