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There’s no cost benefit for a small forum to remove old threads. Reddit would save hundreds of terabytes doing it though.
by hsbauauvhabzb 6y ago
There’s no cost benefit for a small forum to remove old threads. Reddit would save hundreds of terabytes doing it though.
- seppel 6y agoBut reddit doesn't remove anything (AFAIK), it just makes it read only.
- krageon 6y ago"hundreds of terabytes" of actual pure text. I find it extremely unlikely that this is actually the case.
- dredmorbius 6y agoLikewise: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25165393 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25165393