I hit this today. Was playing God of War and couldn’t find out how to get back to a certain collectible. Couldn’t find any resources that had my problem exceot reddit posts that were now private. I was pulling my hair out in frustration knowing the answer was so close
Archive.org had the questions archived, but before there were answers
I had to do that twice yesterday. Then the second time, when I didn’t find the answer I needed at the top, I realized that new Reddit’s stupid design ruined it by hiding most of the comments behind a button.
Used to be you could get the whole page from Google’s cache…
I realized this yesterday when dealing with a problem in Linux. My first attempt was to search for a solution by adding site:reddit.com to my search query… Pure muscle memory!
Hopefully Lemmy will have a better search function than reddit, or good indexing from google.
Yeah it’s good and bad, Reddit gets a lot of traffic through Google. Google gets a lot of results through Reddit that arnt always right though
But they’re much better than the ads and SEO spam in the first page of search results…
I hate this so much. SEO turns search-engines into shit. And with all the AI generated crap it only gets worse
Ran into this today myself (on DuckDuckGo).
I wonder if the wayback machine might be useful? Not sure how they index pages or if there would be a cache of any random page from smaller subreddits.
I ran into the same problem with DuckDuckGo today while troubleshooting an issue and found out that DDG doesn’t cache pages themselves due to cost however they have a command that redirect you to the Google cached page: !cache
eg. reddit.com/r/subreddit !cache
