I often wonder what's going to happen to all the great information that's on sites like HN, Reddit, Stack Overflow, or other popular forums when the companies that run them finally bite the dust or stop being interested in running these websites. It would be a real shame to lose all the advice, howtos, solutions, opinions, conversations, etc.
I'm hoping these sites have archives, and that those archives would be made publicly available in case of such a disaster. But maybe even then they'll be buried behind a shitty web interface such as Google's web interface to old Usenet archives. Or maybe they'll just disappear completely, which would be a huge waste.
I'm hoping these sites have archives, and that those archives would be made publicly available in case of such a disaster. But maybe even then they'll be buried behind a shitty web interface such as Google's web interface to old Usenet archives. Or maybe they'll just disappear completely, which would be a huge waste.