The GardenWeb forums from 2004 are still up and somehow still have the best advice

I was looking up how to deal with powdery mildew on my roses last Tuesday and ended up on some archived GardenWeb thread from 2004. The site looks like it hasn't been touched in years, no login works, half the images are dead. But the advice from this one poster in Ohio about using a milk spray at 1 part milk to 9 parts water was way more specific than anything I found on the new gardening subreddits. I tried it and my mildew cleared up in a week. Its weird how an old forum with zero updates can still beat the algorithm stuff. Anyone else found a dead site that ended up being more useful than the modern version?

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theagarcia15d agoMost Upvoted

Is it possible the dead sites are better because nobody's trying to sell you something? Modern gardening sites are stuffed with affiliate links for fancy fungicides and soil additives. That old forum poster just wanted to share what worked for her roses in Ohio. No ads, no sponsored content, no "10 best products" listicle. Just a milk jug and a spray bottle. Kinda makes you wonder if all the "improvements" to the internet actually made advice worse.