The death of forums means that if you want to know some niche hobbyist thing it’s available on some Discord server that’s not indexable by Google Search where people probably ask the same questions again and again. Not great!
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"Next update to our game is out in three days! All details are on our Discord..."
jul 26, 2025, 3:13 pm • 9 0 • view
This fundamentally breaks the niche hobby forum ecosystem, where the moderators were sustained by replying "Common question, use the searchbar. Closing this thread."
jul 26, 2025, 4:28 pm • 9 0 • view
I refuse to participate in anything that uses Discord, specifically, or any other thing that's not browsable/searchable by an anonymous user without an account. AI scrapers slamming every public site 24/7 is a confounding variable that makes it harder to run such a public space, but it's necessary.
jul 28, 2025, 9:10 am • 1 0 • view
That’s why you got to get in to hobbies predominantly participated in by older people. Golf forums still live
jul 26, 2025, 3:17 pm • 4 0 • view
I grow flowers and yes the garden forums are still up (Houzz took over the good rose forum but it’s still avail for ex), little weird dahlias forum on Cubits, etc. they are still there but the wading through the shit is brutal and the old work arounds no longer filter it out
jul 26, 2025, 3:48 pm • 3 0 • view
I still use some forums!
jul 27, 2025, 9:49 am • 2 0 • view
Broadly, it’s pretty bad that we’ve seen blogs and forums die and people transition to using one company’s product to share information in ways that make it very difficult for an outsider to get.
jul 26, 2025, 3:10 pm • 81 6 • view
stunning every day how useless the internet became, and how quickly I used to always find for ex amazing firewood info on an info-packed fire forum, now all searches Ai garbage all the way down
jul 26, 2025, 3:46 pm • 15 0 • view
The information super highway has hit a roadblock.
jul 27, 2025, 11:10 am • 2 0 • view
Reddit?
jul 27, 2025, 12:21 am • 0 0 • view
Yeah, the simple governance of direct access faces so much pressure from info supply and deliberate algos and the like. LLMs might be the only method to connect these dark forests - but that'd be weird to say the least. No matter what you do, you'd be a contributor to the new canon of knowledge
jul 26, 2025, 3:28 pm • 0 0 • view
Reddit post from nine years ago that answers my exact specific question my beloved
jul 26, 2025, 3:20 pm • 15 0 • view