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Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. (www.xataka.com)

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[–] [email protected] 415 points 4 months ago (21 children)

Reddit does shitty stuff, but at least I'm able to find stuff on there. Why Discord took off as a medium to replace forums is beyond me. It's not easily searchable, and search engines can't index it. If people aren't fastidious about replying to messages they're responding to, it's just a nonsense stream of consciousness from dozens of people.

That being said, I hate the formatting of most forums. Reddit and Lemmy's comment nesting is excellent. It's very easy to follow conversations.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Related Meme: Me and the person who had the same problem 14 years ago (Meme Image: Knight 🛡️ sits next to a skeleton 💀)

With the mass adaption of discord these kind of "nice search engine finds 🔍" will become rare again.

And I heard that reddit also has a special search engine deal with google while blocking others?

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