Back when Google was a decent search engine you could just search “something site:someforum.com” since the built in search was so ass
Something Reddit has in common with old forums
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Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 months agoI hope you’re not implying an old forum search was any good
GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 months ago
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Google didn’t remove site:something from their search functionality. Yet.
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Most decent forums were publicly readable online and thus got indexed by actually decent search engines unlike discord. Hence “search indexable”
I’m not sure why people think that discord search is some kind of gotcha. Its shit.
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Not denying that it’s shit, I don’t know anyone who’s actually happy with it. But old forums also weren’t built nicely.
The whole of IT is different levels of shit all the time
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
That’s why I also mentioned archivable. Public forums can be archived. If I hit one of those issues I look for archived pages. Deleted discord comments are just silently gone and deleted servers are lost forever
Nalivai@lemmy.world 2 months ago
At some point, when you’re combing through archives looking for the exact version of a closed forum post that contains exact info you have, you understand that this system also sucks.