I maintained so-called "resources"-threads as stickies in the tank forum until last year. They have a hit quote of betwen 10 and 20 thousand so I assume the interest for more popular sims in this forum (navy, subs) possibly is at least as high, probably much higher.
Somebody just has to take the work upon himself to add all hints and infos into just one posting that he then updates regularly. A simple thread where just everybody throws in postings with links, becomes scattered and a pain to wade through very quickly.
Nobody wants to read through ten pages if he wants one link to one special item.