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Valid point, but only partially true. It was remarkably easy to simply take a database dump and clone the server. Or pay the bill again. Or have multiple billin

by xctr94 3y ago

Valid point, but only partially true. It was remarkably easy to simply take a database dump and clone the server. Or pay the bill again. Or have multiple billing admins. There’s a very good number of forums still alive, proving they have some resilience to show for themselves. It’s also a form of distributed resilience, i.e. one forum going down isn’t as bad as all of Reddit. Eh…

JohnBooty 3y ago
It was remarkably easy to simply take a database dump and clone the server Huh? I'm not following. That helps the admin(s) and nobody else. The other 99.99% of users are in functionally the same predicament as Reddit users: they have zero control over the data. Theoretically a forum admin could make those dumps publicly available, I guess? I'm sure that has happened once or twice, but I've never heard of anybody doing that.