I'm not really convinced that discovery was a problem with the old forums If you're referring to the time when the "old forums" were new, that is a world which

I'm not really convinced that discovery was a problem with the old forums If you're referring to the time when the "old forums" were new, that is a world which no longer exists: a world where Google search results were useful and not overloaded with paywalled sites and SEO spam. Today, you're going to have a very difficult time finding those "old forums" unless you know the exact name of what you're looking for. And forget about browsing. As for "people today have too many options, back in the day we had fewer options and we were fine!" that's a very old argument you'll have a hard time convincing many people of.