# Google brings back the Forums tab/filter!
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [December 9, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831 "2025-12-09T21:51:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@WorldIsMine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WorldIsMine)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 9:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831/1 "2025-12-09T21:51:28Z")
Idk about you guys, but this makes me VERY happy ๐
Especially since (after testing) my instance ranks incredibly well. Could this revive discussion forums around the globe? I remember when Google killed the filter years ago, those were bad times.
**EDIT:** So far seen in Poland and United States, I am not sure if this is a test or full roll out, but Google is [updating the core](https://www.seroundtable.com/google-core-updates-not-done-40574.html). The Forum tab literally popped up ten minutes ago while I was searching for something.
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2025, 10:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831/2 "2025-12-09T22:47:52Z")
This is great!
Iโm kinda offended that my decades-old community comes after Reddit tho :lolsob:
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### Author:  [@MarkoK](https://meta.discourse.org/u/MarkoK)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 5:04am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831/3 "2025-12-10T05:04:06Z")
This is great! Finally something other than AI related things ๐
> [@Canapin](#):
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> Iโm kinda offended that my decades-old community comes after Reddit tho :lolsob:
These days it feels like that Reddit comes super high on Googleโฆ Also it auto translates english content to finnish which annoys me a lot.
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### Author:  [@WorldIsMine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WorldIsMine)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 8:18am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831/4 "2025-12-10T08:18:11Z")
> [@MarkoK](#):
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> This is great! Finally something other than AI related things
As one redditor said:
> Expected - when almost everything becomes AI written - user generated content becomes even more important.
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> AI answers Google can give themselves.
๐
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### Author:  [@pmusaraj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pmusaraj)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831/6 "2025-12-10T15:02:38Z")
Itโs under the More tab for me (in Canada):
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### Author:  [@WorldIsMine](https://meta.discourse.org/u/WorldIsMine)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831/7 "2025-12-10T15:16:04Z")
Future timeline:
1. People get sick of AI content
2. Discussion forums will flourish
3. Discourse becomes the #1 CMS in the world
4. ???
5. We all profit (and save the world from AI)
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 4:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831/8 "2025-12-10T16:23:30Z")
Dont see it yet (even with VPN), Could you guys give us an example URL when you click on Forums?
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### Author:  [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831/9 "2025-12-10T17:09:59Z")
`?udm=18` works for me, [https://google.com/search?q=discourse&udm=18](https://google.com/search?q=discourse&udm=18)
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### Author:  [@patrickemin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/patrickemin)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 5:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831/10 "2025-12-10T17:11:30Z")
Works for me too, thanks.
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### Author:  [@eisammy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eisammy)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 9:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831/11 "2025-12-10T21:15:22Z")
Finally Alphabet did something good
SWAPD there lol
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### Author:  [@eisammy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eisammy)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831/12 "2025-12-10T21:16:34Z")
Brasil too
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### Author:  [@eisammy](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eisammy)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2025, 9:19pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831/13 "2025-12-10T21:19:46Z")
> [@WorldIsMine](#):
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> Discourse becomes the #1 CMS in the world
Becomes? It is :discourse: ๐
By the way I did many test blocking and unblocking AI Searchers and nothing changes a short period of time
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### Author:  [@Cate\_Soule](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Cate_Soule)
#### Post date: [December 11, 2025, 4:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/google-brings-back-the-forums-tab-filter/390831/14 "2025-12-11T04:50:58Z")
What theme did you use? (Just asking for a friend)