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by mhd 1167 days ago
> Ha, this remind me of a time when I did google(?) searches to find specialized sites of RPGs, Anime, etc.

I still think fondly of browsing lspace.org (Discworld) and the Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5.

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Oh, man, the Lurker's Guide was just such a fantastically good site. Organized, comprehensive, solidly good look: great stuff!

I feel like it's often harder to find high-quality focuses resources like this at this point. I'm not sure whether that's because people have stopped making them, or whether they're just competing for clicks with exponentially more common (and more SEOified) junky fan-wiki sites, or what. (I still get a steady trickle of traffic to my Tolkien Meta-FAQ (http://tolkien.slimy.com/), but I gather that Google tends to de-prioritize sites that aren't being constantly updated.)

A gaming example would be fandom of touhou versus its fan-owned and operated touhouwiki which controls entry of details and has a community that actually cares for checks.