A big part is that a lot of the internet isn't available to google anymore. Lots of good forums just have a robots.txt with "Disallow: /". Google can be a pain

A big part is that a lot of the internet isn't available to google anymore. Lots of good forums just have a robots.txt with "Disallow: /". Google can be a pain. People use DMCA in flagrantly illegal ways, etc, so lots of places just opt out of being easily found. Then, as others have said, there are the discord etc, or irc style, that have never been very searchable, but have lots of good content. It is fracturing back to more like it used to be?