I think this decentralization and federation is what web3 is all about, without all the corporations calling everything to do with monkey pixel art that costs a million dollars “web3”

  • nepatriots32@lemmy.worldEnglish
    211·
    2 years ago

    The only thing they did do relatively recently that I liked was adding the option for subs to not archive posts that are older than 6 months. But I guess when you think about it, that’s more of just taking a restriction away, and less of adding something new. Other than that, though, it’s either just useless stuff or stuff that actively made things worse.

    • thecdc1995@lemmy.worldEnglish
      8·
      2 years ago

      To be fair about the archiving thing you have to consider that being able to make old data read only allows you to optimize a lot of things. With good engineering the allowance for archival should make the whole site faster and more stable. So sort of a soft feature.

      • nepatriots32@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        I get that, and it could make sense to archive things at some point, but I do think it was nice for certain communities, aside from things like sports, news, etc., to be able to still comment on old posts. Especially help posts or things like that, because they could still be relevant months or even years later.

      • StrandIntro@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        There should be a way to unarchive something if that’s the case, which works better than a new post which references the previous one with small addendums or questions. This is especially useful when people are searching for information on certain topics and everything is contained within one post rather than 5 posts because the earlier ones were archived. Many people will never continue searching and see all of the newer information once they have found the old now incomplete posts.