That's unfortunate. Now I have to log in on my phone in order to browse the random image threads in general discussion whenever I'm up at 4 in the morning, bleary-eyed and unable to sleep. What do you expect me to do now, browse the site at a decent hour like a responsible adult?
As an aside now that I think about it, I've linked friends to some recipes and breakdowns in the Food and Games subforums on occasion. No more than five or six times total, and it's nothing compared to the site's overall SEO, but there's a lot of really handy threads in the off-topic sections that I liked knowing I could show people without them having to sign up to the scary shitposting site to see it. I hope at least some of the subforums will be made public again at some point in the future.