Google brings back the Forums tab/filter!

Idk about you guys, but this makes me VERY happy :smiley:

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. The Forum tab literally popped up ten minutes ago while I was searching for something.

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This is great!

I’m kinda offended that my decades-old community comes after Reddit tho :lolsob:

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This is great! Finally something other than AI related things :smiley:

These days it feels like that Reddit comes super high on Google… Also it auto translates english content to finnish which annoys me a lot.

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As one redditor said:

Expected - when almost everything becomes AI written - user generated content becomes even more important.

AI answers Google can give themselves.

:smiley:

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It’s under the More tab for me (in Canada):

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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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Dont see it yet (even with VPN), Could you guys give us an example URL when you click on Forums?

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?udm=18 works for me, https://google.com/search?q=discourse&udm=18

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Works for me too, thanks.

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Finally Alphabet did something good

SWAPD there lol

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Brasil too

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Becomes? It is :discourse: :rocket:

By the way I did many test blocking and unblocking AI Searchers and nothing changes a short period of time

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What theme did you use? (Just asking for a friend)