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    10 months ago

    Forums in the past always needed an account (with its own registration, accepting rules and so on) before you could ask your question. Hell, a lot of forums barely showed anything besides 2-3 topics and you needed to be logged in to see all areas (sometimes with extra user roles if you wanted to see more).

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      10 months ago

      Exactly, you needed an account to ask and to view some download links, but google never took me to a forum that needed an account just to read my issue.

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        Duh, because Google wouldn’t index forums where you need an account to read the posts. I’ve been signed up to dozens of forums back in the day, I’m telling you, a lot of them didn’t show shit until you signed in. Google only shows you public posts, if the game forum needs an account you won’t find the post in your search.

        Most forums back then were heavily locked down, especially due to bots spamming ads.