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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by q-big on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:10PM (#32976272)
This is perfectly explainable: Very often, early adaptors of, say, communities are a very different breed of people than people who join the community in a later phase.

So, it is the behaviour to expect that sooner or later these early adaptors that lead to the initial growth of the community won't feel home anymore.

See also Eternal September: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

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Re:3x new books added to the Pirate Library Mirror by blowski on Sunday September 25, 2022 @05:17PM (#32976364)
There's that, and there's also the tendency for humans to feel nostalgia for a time that never was. Memories are poor. I suspect if people were asked to guess whether a thread was from today or 2008, they'd get a lot wrong (aside from chronological details giving clues).
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