Status search appears to have stopped working in 1.1.8
In 1.1.8, punching in a search item that is in the public timeline returns no results. I'm not sure where exactly the breakage is (backend or FE) as the query from the FE is hitting nginx, but there's no spinner to show any processing - it just immediately returns with 'no results'.
Testing on a few 1.1.7 instances all seem to work. My instance and pleroma.com don't (1.1.8).
Searching for people and hashtags appears to work fine.