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I hope it's a trend too, but for a different reason. All these services keep info locked away behind a login wall, and it's making it incredibly difficult for n
by CM30 3y ago
I hope it's a trend too, but for a different reason. All these services keep info locked away behind a login wall, and it's making it incredibly difficult for newcomers to find the info they need online due to its inaccessibility to search engines.
If forums become the norm again, and people are logical enough to keep them viewable to guests, that issue goes away and we'll be able to actually find useful information online again.
- bobthepanda 3y agoThe general problem with forums is that once they get good SEO placement they then become targets of the army of spammers, real and human, trying to use the highly ranking forum for their unscrupulous SEO spam, and now the maintaining team has to do heavy loads of spam management.
- Solvency 3y agoThen only allow paid/subscribed users to post.
- cqqxo4zV46cp 3y agoThat’s not very Old Internet.
- plutokras 3y agoWith the sea of SEO and AI spam, we aren't living anymore in the age of the old internet. Communities need to adapt.
- renewiltord 3y agoIt’s not going to happen. You can’t put ads on them anymore. Means someone has to just run a loss-running enterprise for you. Few will do that.