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 ?

  • skulblaka@kbin.social
    6·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • Nilz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      6·
      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.

      • skulblaka@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        Make it a FOSS project then. No profit motive, no problem, right?

        Granted, I understand that’s hinging on someone actually wanting to work on this project for free. But I feel like FOSS decentralized forum software is something we might be able to get the grognards on board with.

    • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
      1·
      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.