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Were you actually affected by this somehow? Because, you know, this page had been nothing but a redirect to Google Groups for 22 years. That seems plenty of ti
by jsnell 3y ago
Were you actually affected by this somehow?
Because, you know, this page had been nothing but a redirect to Google Groups for 22 years. That seems plenty of time for people to update their bookmarks.
If you weren't affected, this doesn't really sound like an argument made in good faith.
- ketchupdog 3y agoFortunately, the person you were responding to wasn't making a bad faith argument, or even arguing at all, but was rather expressing a common opinion based on anticipating entirely predictable behavior.
- jsnell 3y agoWhy would that be any better? You still seem to be saying that comment had nothing to do with the submission, and is something commonly on HN. In fact so often that one can easily predict that it'll be spammed to any post about Google. Something predictable and boring is not the good kind of HN comment. It's an even worse comment when nothing was killed in this instance as far as I can tell. The headline is just a total fabrication. Nothing had been hosted on that URL for 22 years except a 302 redirect. The archive is just as functional (or non-functional) as it had been for the last two decades. But maybe I'm wrong about that. Maybe something did use to work for the OP and was broken recently.