diff --git a/app/logical/missed_search_service.rb b/app/logical/missed_search_service.rb
index e2f4ae5ba..6f8608787 100644
--- a/app/logical/missed_search_service.rb
+++ b/app/logical/missed_search_service.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 # queries reportbooru to find missed post searches
 class MissedSearchService
+  def self.enabled?
+    Danbooru.config.reportbooru_server.present?
+  end
+
+  def initialize
+    if !MissedSearchService.enabled?
+      raise NotImplementedError.new("the Reportbooru service isn't configured. Missed searches are not available.")
+    end
+  end
+
   def each_search(&block)
     fetch_data.scan(/(.+?) (\d+)\.0\n/).each(&block)
   end
diff --git a/app/logical/popular_search_service.rb b/app/logical/popular_search_service.rb
index ac7e0c88c..cb1b84b53 100644
--- a/app/logical/popular_search_service.rb
+++ b/app/logical/popular_search_service.rb
@@ -2,7 +2,15 @@
 class PopularSearchService
   attr_reader :date, :scale
 
+  def self.enabled?
+    Danbooru.config.reportbooru_server.present?
+  end
+
   def initialize(date, scale)
+    if !PopularSearchService.enabled?
+      raise NotImplementedError.new("the Reportbooru service isn't configured. Popular searches are not available.")
+    end
+
     @date = date
     @scale = scale
   end
diff --git a/app/logical/reports/user_similarity.rb b/app/logical/reports/user_similarity.rb
index 4560b1070..b2c6bfc45 100644
--- a/app/logical/reports/user_similarity.rb
+++ b/app/logical/reports/user_similarity.rb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ module Reports
     end
 
     def fetch_similar_user_ids(endpoint = "user_similarity")
-      return NotImplementedError unless Danbooru.config.reportbooru_server
+      raise NotImplementedError.new("the Reportbooru service isn't configured. User similarity is not available.") unless Danbooru.config.reportbooru_server
 
       params = {
         "key" => Danbooru.config.reportbooru_key,
diff --git a/app/views/posts/partials/common/_secondary_links.html.erb b/app/views/posts/partials/common/_secondary_links.html.erb
index 97ddb9002..3eff9ecc7 100644
--- a/app/views/posts/partials/common/_secondary_links.html.erb
+++ b/app/views/posts/partials/common/_secondary_links.html.erb
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
     <li id="secondary-links-posts-upload" class="nonessential"><%= link_to "Upload", new_upload_path %></li>
     <li id="secondary-links-posts-popular"><%= link_to "Popular", popular_explore_posts_path %></li>
     <li id="secondary-links-posts-hot"><%= link_to "Hot", posts_path(:tags => "order:rank") %></li>
-    <% if Danbooru.config.reportbooru_server %>
+    <% if PopularSearchService.enabled? %>
       <li id="secondary-links-posts-searches"><%= link_to "Searches", searches_explore_posts_path %></li>
     <% end %>
     <% unless CurrentUser.is_anonymous? %>