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Are Internet boards and Forums dead (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (3 children)

That's a good point. A really good app that can parse a standard framework that a thousand independent forums can stand up for their own purposes (Say, MyBB for instance), would go a long way towards reviving the forum scene as a whole with a very Lemmy-like or reddit-like experience.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That app already exists and is called Tapatalk. I think almost every forum I've visited in the last decade has a banner on mobile that suggests using Tapatalk.

It's not very good though it seems.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Unfortunately those kind of apps would trip cloudflare's bot protection feature, which is used by a lot of independent forum operators.