Forums still exist, even reddit and co sucked some up. A interesting question would be, if the degrading google search is responsible that it is harder nowdays to find them
>A interesting question would be, if the degrading google search is responsible that it is harder nowdays to find them
I was going to comment on this. Forums are probably cropping up at a faster pace than ever (its never been easier to host a forum, and we have modern forum software like discourse readily available), its just near impossible to discover them through modern search. Forums, for example, often have long running threads that may span over multiple years with rich sources of useful information, but modern search heavily downranks old (read: less than 1 week) pages unless its a niche query and hosted on $TOP_10K_SITES.
