Re:The Mutable Web
by setr on Friday July 26, 2019 @10:20AM
(#20534978)
>The content gets scrubbed after a week. No sharded storage is necessary. But due to the license, others can persist content they like.
This is what a * chan does. N pages of content max; anything more, and the oldest thread will be "dropped off" the site.
Combined with anonymous-by-default posting, it works fairly well.
>There's next to zero value in looking up old posts. I don't know why this hasn't been done.
This is not really true; there's tons of good information that gets lost. On most * chans, this was recovered by screenshotting the thread and sharing the image around; today there are auto-archiving sites for the larger * chans, and people just link to that. But the culture still prefers sharing (edited, MS Paint) screenshots around.
This is what a * chan does. N pages of content max; anything more, and the oldest thread will be "dropped off" the site.
Combined with anonymous-by-default posting, it works fairly well.
>There's next to zero value in looking up old posts. I don't know why this hasn't been done.
This is not really true; there's tons of good information that gets lost. On most * chans, this was recovered by screenshotting the thread and sharing the image around; today there are auto-archiving sites for the larger * chans, and people just link to that. But the culture still prefers sharing (edited, MS Paint) screenshots around.