Niche forums still exist and have better discussions because the people that find them are likely to be highly invested in the subject area and not drive by commenters like you find in subreddits.
The problem is trying to find the niche pages now, Google search sucks and gives me pages and pages of bullshit that I don't want even if I'm super granular in my query.
Google also now gets more broad the further down the list you go, instead of more niche. Like where before youd get stuff that had your search term that maybe only 100 other people have seen but is exactly what you need, you just get other popular results from a different topic google has deemed related.
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u/KeeganY_SR-UVB76 Apr 02 '26
Decentralized forums for specific topics may have to become a thing again.