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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sure, that's an issue with all forums.

What I'm talking about is on Reddit and similar platforms unless you already replied to a discussion and someone replies to you directly you don't know that the discussion keeps going.

On forums you see the discussion getting bumped and if you ask a question by creating a new thread and it's already covered in an existing thread, people will refer you to it and you can continue adding to an ongoing discussion instead of the Reddit solution of being referred to a previous discussion that can't be expanded because no one will know if you ask for more info in it.

Just look at ADVRider for example, thousands of pages of discussion on motorcycle models that haven't been in production for over 10 years, that's a shit load of knowledge all in the same place!