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Re:Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round by PurpleFoxy on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:07AM (#26074115)
The much more likely explanation is that no one is using forums anymore. Forum posts still show up in google but they are always from 2009.
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Re:Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round by mberning on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:45AM (#26074301)
I’m not so sure. There are many extremely active forums that exist, particularly for specific hobbies. In my case for example, if I google for “subaru brz forged wheels” I get nothing but vendors and product pages. But if I add “ft86club” to the query a great many forum posts appear. In the past those type of forum posts would appear ahead of vendor pages.
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Re:Reddit valued at $6B on a $250M round by clydethefrog on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @03:32AM (#26075145)
Probably "outdated" forum software that doesn't have much SEO bells and whistles.
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