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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 ?

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[–] Extrasvhx9he@lemmy.today 1 points 2 years ago

The forums i visit, grapheneos', cryptomator's and privacy guides', are alive.

[–] lilShalom@lemmy.basedcount.com 1 points 2 years ago

They went the same place BBSs went

[–] guyrocket@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Isn't usenet supposed to be a forum? Why don't people use it?

[–] geosoco@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There's still a lot, but they're generally niche or are more business related (eg. answers.microsoft.com). Hosting fees and technical knowledge have lead to many people just using reddit or facebook groups.

For gaming there's places like ResetEra and I think SomethingAwful still has their forums going.

There's a ton of support group like ones, often related to certain medical conditions.

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i remember when google ingested the newsgroup archive and spit it back out as deja news.. it was a tech support gold mine

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