>host your competitive scene and community out of a forum>gate the search feature for your forum behind a login to make browsing it less convenientWhat did they mean by this?
Atp that's why I always use temp emails for shit, especially ones that if lost - will not inconvenience me as I wouldnt even use the site im using the temp email for, just to browse it.. which is a really gay thing in general
>>58905751Doesn't matter Champions will be out in the next 2 months to completely kill Smogon.
>>58905751compfagging is a mental illness
>>58905751old forums gated viewing user accounts behind a login too
>>58905751They want you to use the 'cord instead so they can groom you better
>>58906350That's not what's happening on Smogon though, nothing about the ability to look at user profiles has changed.
>>58905751Genuinely curious what you’re searching for. Most of the actually useful information is in pinned threads.
>>58905751Just log in. It's not that hard. It's not even a gate. It's more like a line drawn in the dirt with a stick. There isn't an response to this that won't make you look like a bitch or lazy.
>>58905751forums do this now because the amount of bot scraping outscales real traffic by orders of millionsby requiring an account it's easier to detect and ban bots and bot networks
>>58907242Don't remember what I was looking up last night in particular, but the old gen and Ubers resources are all over the place and it's nice when you can avoid manually clicking through threads in like five subforums by just searching keywords. Also a good way of finding tournament replays featuring a particular Pokemon.>>58907303Well that's annoying, but fair enough.
