It doesn't really affect your subscriptions at least. It does affect searching for anything current that isn't in your subscriptions, though.

I discovered this a few days ago when a band I'm subscribed to announced an upcoming album, and that their agent released 2 songs off of it. Not knowing the agent's name or the new song titles sure made them hard to find since this band has a LOT of significantly older stuff showing up before the 2 new songs finally appear.

I wish they'd just add a 24 hour delay or something less extreme than punishing the legit content makers this way.

Afaik they did that after the NZ shooting to prevent people from finding the millions of reuploads of the killer's stream.

Reminds me of Github removing search due to security concerns.

Now it's back; it just doesn't work very well.

I've publicly tweeted about this as well. So is this a case where they're calling a bug really a feature?

No, they are calling it a bug that they intend to resolve produced during the effort to implement a feature.

They both acknowledge that it is not working as expected and state that they intend to restore it to expected function and will notify of that on the issue.

Single time I wanted to use filter to find a specific thing and at the same time see this thread in HN :/