[SteveMoody73]

Only used discourse in a limited way but it lacks the searchability of the old forums. I can't imagine how much useful information has been lost when some of these sites have shut down.

Discussions on a well run forum would be on topic with various people adding to a conversaion, discussions on a single topic seems to get lost on these chat apps

[syntheticnature]

You're thinking of Discord, not Discourse.

[PaulDavisThe1st]

>Only used discourse in a limited way but it lacks the searchability of the old forums.

Are you saying that discourse lacks search features, or that most discourse forums don't have the "history" that old forums do?

[justsomehnguy]

Not OP, but I struggle with Discourse search, both in terms of usability (not quite good) and presentation - both D. itself and it's search is made by someone who doesn't need to exchange information and persist it. After some attempts I just fallback to external search with 'site:domain.tld search term'.

Wasting 90% of my screen real estate while actually hiding useful information isn't helping too.