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Re:Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages by wbronitsky on Friday February 15, 2019 @05:23PM (#19175279)
Wait what? Why are you randomly crapping on Mongo? You can use Mongo in exactly the same way as you described.
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Re:Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages by thanatos_dem on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:12PM (#19176568)
Because crapping on Mongo is “in” right now. Years ago it used to be “in” to crap on it for its deaign choices, especially its tendency to lose data (seems to be what the parent comment is referencing; see [1] for a summary of some issues from 2013).

More recently it’s “in” for their business decisions, with the relicensing and the rise of API-compatible alternatives pushing some users away.

But yeah, really no reason to mock them in this discussion, apart from going for internet cool points from an audience that may also be critical of Mongo.

[1] https://aphyr.com/posts/284-jepsen-mongodb

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Re:Even years later, Twitter doesn’t delete direct messages by pizza on Friday February 15, 2019 @08:31PM (#19176402)
It's hacker news, randomly crapping on technology nobody brought up is what hackers do (/s)
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