I mean, of course "something" was lost? But...things were lost all of the time at the height of the old internet as well. No tech change needed. Communities wou

I mean, of course "something" was lost? But...things were lost all of the time at the height of the old internet as well. No tech change needed. Communities would rise and fall, maintainers would move on and stop making things available, etc. It seems to me That is just how things change over time. Like...if IRC was still the height of community, many of the IRC communities that were the most popular in 1998 would still be dead and gone now. Their archives would probably still be lost (it's not like we were better at archiving then). Like for any particular community that you can look back on and see people moving away from it into something else, I suspect people would still have moved away - they just would have moved away to a new IRC instead of...twitter or github or discord or whatever. It just seems, to me, that people see normal cyclical community transition and blame the fact that it happened at a time when new kinds of communities were rising. I am not convinced that the two have much to do with each other.