A lot communities have “Posts older than 365 days will be removed.” in their description, but what does this mean exactly? It never says.

  • The database of posts only goes as far as 1 year, everything older gets wiped? I hope and assume that’s not it.
  • Posts with links to articles older than a year get removed?
  • If a thread is over a year old, no new comments will be added?
    • arsCynic@piefed.socialOPEnglish
      8·
      2 天前

      Are you certain? Because to me it instantly removes the incentive to contribute since it won’t be retrievable/helpful to anyone beyond 1 year.

      It makes sense in communities made to share picture and such, but not where high quality answers are frequent.

    • Shadow@lemmy.ca
      6·
      2 天前

      Lol wat. Deleting old posts is bad manners in my opinion, and the db cost is negligible.

      • abbadon420@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        2 天前

        Yeah thats it. For a second I thought, “sure they can save money by not storing old data”, but than I realised that it’s like two dollar per year per gb. I’m sure we generate a lot of posts, but a single gb goes a long way if you consider that most images are hosted externally.