The search restriction is too severe to novices.
I heard of "ExeTools.com" for a long time, but the forum closed the registration at that time. Today I am searching something and Google led me to a post of the forum, and I just found that the forum allows registrations again.
So, in my opinion, those numbers of posts are a large knowledgebase to users like me. Not to search is a pain to me, because that means I have to browse the boards screen by screen.
By the way, the periodical password changing is another pain to me, I think.