Me, too. the one place I see Reddit shining is in the self-help type subs, like r/personalfinance, for example. But for topics that require significant specialization, or a specialized, knowledgeable audience (like anything research, repair or creation), forums are undoubtedly superior.

Some of those are so bad as to be straight up dangerous (e.g. r/fitness).

Sure downvote the guy with an opinion... HN can be so petty so very often.

You're right. I have a 1970's cub tractor and a 70's twosmoke Yamaha cafe racer. The search for knowledge on these items are entirely forums and blogs, never had a hit on Reddit worth a damn.

Youtube is great for this stuff assuming people don't remove their videos. For anything car related, it will be on forums. Same with guns - any in depth discussion is going to be on something like arfcom. When I was looking up information on barrel twists for different lengths and ammo for my 300 BO build, everything was on a forum.