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Are Internet boards and Forums dead (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by saltynuts420@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world
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i started using the internet in the late 2000's and still remember when you search for something most of the times it would return with a forum post ... now its just random websites ... if you ever need real and concise answer you have to add site:reddit.com at every search and since discord or twitter are not crawlable by these search crawlers they are not mentioned . Where did all those forums went...are there still active forums ?

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[–] BudFactory@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Discord is pretty much the worst thing that happened to readily available information on the internet (when it comes to games and tech in general at least). No, I don’t wanna join your very specific niche server and use a search function worse than any forum back in the days had in hope to find the information I want.

Also Google got way worse, but that‘s no secret.

[–] SkyNTP@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

"Join our discord".

No I don't think I will. I don't want to chat. I want to RTFM.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Discord is like using SMS to run something like Stack Overflow. When subreddits were moving off Reddit (which is good), some were talking about moving to Discord and I could not understand why anyone would think that was a comparable migration option.

[–] watson387@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I agree. I don’t use Discord at all. Chat rooms always suck for questions/support.

[–] BudFactory@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That‘s not even all. The process now is something like:

Search on Google: no answer -> search on Google with Reddit.com appended: no answer -> search on Google with Reddit and Discord Server appended: click through 3 expired invitation links -> finally find a working one: scroll through pages and pages of memes and rule34 content to find the answer you wanted

I want my searchable forums and bulletin boards back ffs.

[–] Wogi@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Search Google-> 5 YouTube videos pinned to the top

Search Google with Reddit appended -> deleted comments in a thread 5 years old not even about my specific problem

Search duck duck go -> numerous highly detailed websites that may or may not be related to my specific problem

[–] ericisshort@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The number of those comments that are deleted sure went up a couple of months ago. I wonder what happened 🤔