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[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago (2 children) I hope you're not implying an old forum search was any good permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago (1 child) Most decent forums were publicly readable online and thus got indexed by actually decent search engines unlike discord. Hence "search indexable" I'm not sure why people think that discord search is some kind of gotcha. Its shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child) Not denying that it's shit, I don't know anyone who's actually happy with it. But old forums also weren't built nicely. You say search indexable as if it's a panacea, but you find whatever you want to find with your search engine, click the link, and it is: moved somewhere renamed, so now the link is dead was actually a part of badly implemented endless scroll so it now points to nothing was edited to remove crucial information was put in private and now you need to have 25 karma across three boards to open it someone got butthurt so it's now defaced all of the above and more. So you know that the info was there at some point, but you can't access it. The whole of IT is different levels of shit all the time permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) That's why I also mentioned archivable. Public forums can be archived. If I hit one of those issues I look for archived pages. Deleted discord comments are just silently gone and deleted servers are lost forever permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago At some point, when you're combing through archives looking for the exact version of a closed forum post that contains exact info you have, you understand that this system also sucks. permalink fedilink source parent [–] GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago (1 child) Back when Google was a decent search engine you could just search "something site:someforum.com" since the built in search was so ass Something Reddit has in common with old forums permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago Google didn't remove site:something from their search functionality. Yet. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 12 points 6 months ago (1 child) Most decent forums were publicly readable online and thus got indexed by actually decent search engines unlike discord. Hence "search indexable" I'm not sure why people think that discord search is some kind of gotcha. Its shit. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child) Not denying that it's shit, I don't know anyone who's actually happy with it. But old forums also weren't built nicely. You say search indexable as if it's a panacea, but you find whatever you want to find with your search engine, click the link, and it is: moved somewhere renamed, so now the link is dead was actually a part of badly implemented endless scroll so it now points to nothing was edited to remove crucial information was put in private and now you need to have 25 karma across three boards to open it someone got butthurt so it's now defaced all of the above and more. So you know that the info was there at some point, but you can't access it. The whole of IT is different levels of shit all the time permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) That's why I also mentioned archivable. Public forums can be archived. If I hit one of those issues I look for archived pages. Deleted discord comments are just silently gone and deleted servers are lost forever permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago At some point, when you're combing through archives looking for the exact version of a closed forum post that contains exact info you have, you understand that this system also sucks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world -2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 child) Not denying that it's shit, I don't know anyone who's actually happy with it. But old forums also weren't built nicely. You say search indexable as if it's a panacea, but you find whatever you want to find with your search engine, click the link, and it is: moved somewhere renamed, so now the link is dead was actually a part of badly implemented endless scroll so it now points to nothing was edited to remove crucial information was put in private and now you need to have 25 karma across three boards to open it someone got butthurt so it's now defaced all of the above and more. So you know that the info was there at some point, but you can't access it. The whole of IT is different levels of shit all the time permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) That's why I also mentioned archivable. Public forums can be archived. If I hit one of those issues I look for archived pages. Deleted discord comments are just silently gone and deleted servers are lost forever permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago At some point, when you're combing through archives looking for the exact version of a closed forum post that contains exact info you have, you understand that this system also sucks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 1 point 6 months ago (1 child) That's why I also mentioned archivable. Public forums can be archived. If I hit one of those issues I look for archived pages. Deleted discord comments are just silently gone and deleted servers are lost forever permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago At some point, when you're combing through archives looking for the exact version of a closed forum post that contains exact info you have, you understand that this system also sucks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago At some point, when you're combing through archives looking for the exact version of a closed forum post that contains exact info you have, you understand that this system also sucks. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago (1 child) Back when Google was a decent search engine you could just search "something site:someforum.com" since the built in search was so ass Something Reddit has in common with old forums permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago Google didn't remove site:something from their search functionality. Yet. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 point 6 months ago Google didn't remove site:something from their search functionality. Yet. permalink fedilink source parent