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by nicbou 748 days ago
They completely lost the plot. Google search went from great to terrible to Ryanair check-in experience within a few years. Now they just killed traffic to a lot of independent websites in favour of a hundred or so generic superwebsites‘ slop.

The internet is turning into just a dozen websites at an alarming speed.

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I think in the future we will have to spend more time on forums again to find what we need.
I have taken an electronic music hobby recently and the small forum where users of my instrument congregate has been a refreshing throwback to the early 2000's, making me realize how much I had missed a sense of community on the megasites.
I mean, when you look at the forums... Even forums for say, Pytorch are that Discuss hideosity.
"Discuss" or "Discourse" ?
Bleh.
"Disgust"
"just google it"