[csomar]

You have to realize you are part of the problem. The old traditional forums didn't die because of AI but because you stopped contributing to them. There is a reason HN is still alive. If you want to maintain the "old" web, you have to keep browsing and interacting with the old web. I keep an old fashioned website (https://omarabid.com) and there are barely any viewers. Google completely de-ranked the site for no reason and it's almost impossible to get your articles trending on social media these days if you are not "whoring" your points of something like that.

If you make a small list of such sites, forums, podcasts, you'll have save and maintain the last few corners that exist.

[throwup238]

> There is a reason HN is still alive.

Dang’s salary?

HN is the only forum I can think of where not only are the economic incentives between users and owners mostly aligned but there’s a paid moderator who is part of the community (as opposed to the faceless moderation teams of Twitter/Facebook/etc).

All the forums I loved died mostly because of owners shutting them down or giving up on moderation but YMMV

[musicale]

> Google completely de-ranked the site for no reason

The reason was that they decided to remove web search from Google search.

Google is still useful for searching Google sites however.

Personally I'm kind of OK letting some other search engines bloom along with some human curation.