i started using the internet in the late 2000’s and still remember when you search for something most of the times it would return with a forum post … now its just random websites … if you ever need real and concise answer you have to add site:reddit.com at every search and since discord or twitter are not crawlable by these search crawlers they are not mentioned . Where did all those forums went…are there still active forums ?
I’m pretty sure Google (and potentially other search engines) de-prioritized blogs and forums. There’s plentry of both out there, although less than there were originally, they’re just being cut out of some search results