• @hayes_
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    51 year ago

    Data storage/hosting isn’t free…

    • @Ryumast3r
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      341 year ago

      They’re definitely not deleting that data. Just hiding it.

    • thisbenzingring
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      1 year ago

      Text data on a compressed drive is so small. You have a modern server and accessing text files in a compressed drive is not noticeable performance hit. The compression ratio is massive for text and markup language files

      • @[email protected]
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        -11 year ago

        Yes, text doesn’t take up much space, but decades of text can easily take up a lot of space, especially when you track things like edits.

        Not to mention that this data isn’t in text files. It’s going to be in a database, so the number of records that need to be parsed will impact performance. How big that impact is depends on how they set the database up.