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If HN goes away it's because it's replaced by something else. Something that meets users needs better. What's there to plan for, except if you intend to make

• JohnFen 3y ago
  > If HN goes away it's because it's replaced by something else Why are you so sure of this? The internet is chock full of counterexamples to the idea.
• fragmede 3y ago
  > If HN goes away it's because it's replaced by something else. Have you tested the site backups? How do you know that dang's backups work? when's the last time they were tested? An act of god could take out the servers that run this place, and their backups, and the site's history and contents would be gone. you'd go to http://news.ycombinator.com http://news.ycombinator.com and get an error page that says "we're having trouble serving your request." Or worse - no response at all. Would the site survive hours or days of downtime? would we come flooding back to an empty site and just start filling it back up again after our threads, our /comments, out /favorites, our /highlights were lost? It would be like a death in the family. We might take off, never to come back instead. This is not to impugn dang's computer skills. I'm sure there's a good plan in place. But you might want your open copy of the pages you want to keep.