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		varispeed on June 30, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Link rot and content drift are endemic to the web I download everything I like. Storage is cheap now. Plus smaller sites will start disappearing because of regulatory capture. It will not be possible to run a forum or similar site in few years.

pessimizer on June 30, 2021 [–]

We say that a lot, but it's not that cheap if you're using redundancy and backups. It's cheap if you don't care too much about the data.

Thrymr on June 30, 2021 | [–]

Cataloging and indexing and searchability are also not cheap if you are doing all of that on your own time.

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