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
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.
I wonder what their reason would be to do this? Are they just trying to get their users to dislike them more?
According to Reddit, “empowering the userbase”
Data storage/hosting isn’t free…
They’re definitely not deleting that data. Just hiding it.
And they sell it to the highest bidder to train their next LLM, which seems to be all the rage at the moment.
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
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.