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this post was submitted on 21 Sep 2024
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I've consciously not subscribed to this as it messes up the organic /all tab of the instance and as other said it would explode our storage and bandwidth.
Will you reconsider your decision once this gets implemented? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/5016
It should save lots of storage space that would otherwise be used to store all the old votes from all the communities
I'm not really into the idea of archiving posts and not being able to reply to older posts anymore. Was one of the more annoying things on Reddit, and I'm glad they did away with it, or at least made it optional. Sometimes you just need to add something new to something old ya know.
This issue is mainly just about votes, since these take up lots of storage space. The total amount of upvotes/downvotes would still be saved, but the individual votes of each user would get purged from the DB. Even though it mentions disabling comments once a post gets archived, I think this will be a separate option, that can be disabled by instance admins. If you still oppose this, you should comment on the GitHub issue, that's where the devs are, not here.
I thought I had posted it but I forgot to hit send, silly me. I posted it now.
I see, that makes sense. It does kind of suck though since it means that it's harder to get communities here seeded elsewhere so they can be discovered and gain users. Getting communities here isn't as big a deal , it's getting your communities pushed out there that's the issue.
Maybe someone could talk to the maintainers about including a mode that doesn't push external communities to our instance but still allows for other instances to subscribe to communities on our instance.