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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by jlokier on Thursday November 19, 2020 @05:52PM (#25155320)
If you can render an old thread (as opposed to pre-rendered HTML and I doubt that is done for forums), there is no storage cost or performance benefit to preventing comments on it.

New comments don't need to live in the same read-only storage as the old ones. They just need to be found when the old ones are rendered, and that's easy - the new comments are in hot storage after all.

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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by IsopropylMalbec on Thursday November 19, 2020 @06:34PM (#25155694)
I agree with the first half of this. The second half implies that the original designer felt that historical comments were important, which I think any social MVP will disagree with.
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