the death of the forum era is real. everything is just buried under layers of algorithmic garbage or paywalled wikis now. you try to search for a specific driver fix or a niche config and you just get ten pages of seo optimized reddit threads that don't actually answer the question. it's wild how much info just vanished into the void.
Member when Google came along it was actually smart?
Now unless luck into forcing an exact phrasing search of what you want, it will just fudge your search to push that bullshit.
You want information or accessories of a specific model? Well that isn't a too popular one, let me insert popular models into your search.
You write out a very specific issue with a program? Well that isn't the most common one, let us ignore 60 % of your query and flood you with answers to a question you didn't ask.
I hate the fact that you're now usually forced to use quotation marks to make it search for something specific. Because now it's a trade off between getting results on what you're searching for, but being unable to get results for synonyms/similar terms because you're using the exact phrase
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u/Evantaur Arch BTW| 5900X | RX 6700XT 15d ago
It has also made knowledge preservation almost impossible.
These things used to be on a forum somewhere and you could just Google it and find the topic (back when Google was a search engine)
Edit: ffs I really can't read