>The content gets scrubbed after a week. No sharded storage is necessary. But due to the license, others can persist content they like. This is what a * chan d

>The content gets scrubbed after a week. No sharded storage is necessary. But due to the license, others can persist content they like. This is what a * chan does. N pages of content max; anything more, and the oldest thread will be "dropped off" the site. Combined with anonymous-by-default posting, it works fairly well. >There's next to zero value in looking up old posts. I don't know why this hasn't been done. This is not really true; there's tons of good information that gets lost. On most * chans, this was recovered by screenshotting the thread and sharing the image around; today there are auto-archiving sites for the larger * chans, and people just link to that. But the culture still prefers sharing (edited, MS Paint) screenshots around.