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Retain only half a year worth of content? What the fuck? That's absurd.
If you can migrate 6 months' worth of data, how is older data any different? The data is there, in the same form. The timespan should not matter at all. It's either the same form, or interfaced to transparently integrate into the existing system - which would allow migration all the same.
Absolutely absurd.
announcing removal of 18 years of content, of central functionality, announced just 20 days ago, in an obscure place, and after random uninteresting flair navigation and chat channel announcements spanning multiple paragraphs and screenshots.
Baffling.
Acting as if they were managing a personal project that only they themselves use.
They will sell access to that 18 years of content. They don't want it able to be scraped in any way.
There it is.
Just standard verbose bullshit PR talk
Lane closed to ease conjestion
Posting notices like the Vogons.
This made me snort
Your drug habits are none of my business.
Text is basically free to host, especially text that you can index on a primary key like an account id. The only reason to do this is to reduce dev maintenance costs, but they're not achieving that by cutting back on the storage time