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 ?

  • redcalcium@lemmy.institute
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year ago

    Unfortunately those kind of apps would trip cloudflare’s bot protection feature, which is used by a lot of independent forum operators.