Comment on Are Internet boards and Forums dead

• BudFactory@feddit.de ⁨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.

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  • Wogi@lemmy.world ⁨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

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    • ericisshort@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • Solarius@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    you can search specific channels on discord. if you’re seeing memes and r34 while searching for something in a hub server for a game or something then you’re not searching correctly. or the thing you’re trying to find info on is so niche and poorly organized they have 1 channel.

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