MAWS broken?

[Turnarcades]

This is probably a stupid question, but I've not used MAWS for a while and now I come back to use it, neither browsing for roms nor searching is turning up any results. Is the site down or am I doing something drastically wrong?

[Hoopz]

The site is up, which it wasn't a week or two ago.  But you are right that the search function isn't returning any results. 

So, yep, its broke.

[Turnarcades]

It's not something I use often as I tend to do weeding and filtering manually for accuracy, but right now time's of the essence so is there something similar close to MAWS online?

[Vigo]

If I remember right, you can do certain filtering things with MameUI.

[Turnarcades]

If I remember right, you can do certain filtering things with MameUI.

Would have been my second avenue, but unfortunately not detailed enough for the filtering I need to do.

[Donkbaca]

it is down.  MiniMAWS is up though:
http://maws.mameworld.info/minimaws/

[Turnarcades]

Thanks for the link, but it's not that helpful in this case. A good backup if all else fails though.

[NOP]

romlister is as good or better as any maws search+filtering query.  it takes just a bit more work to set up, but it'll never go offline!

http://www.waste.org/~winkles/ROMLister

[randjamal]

It's not as good as MAWS, but mamedb.com is passable when MAWS is down. And KLOV is often more accurate than MAWS for things like control type and orientation.