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
Used to be you could get the whole page from Google’s cache…
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.
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.
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
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
