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 ?

  • BudFactory@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.mlEnglish
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      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.worldEnglish
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      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.

      • BudFactory@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        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.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          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

          • eric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 year ago

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