I probably have a too much romantic memory of them :) Anyway, it was easy to come back to a specific topic, so it was easier to find good ones. You could bookm

I probably have a too much romantic memory of them :) Anyway, it was easy to come back to a specific topic, so it was easier to find good ones. You could bookmark them, see the number of views/replies or even find them in search engines. Good content surfaced and survived better, so optimization is probably the wrong word.