Comment on The full source code for GTA 5 has been publicly leaked

• Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yeah and it sucked for archival purposes then and it still sucks now and forums took its place and that’s still where serious people go to talk about their field, but somehow there’s some fields where people have forgotten that.

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  • FinalRemix@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Just thinking about the fields and fields of car, electric, and plumbing forums all sitting out there with broken links and dead photobucket / imgur embedded pictures…

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    • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s an issue with the cost of storage back then meaning that people needed external hosts, but these days if Reddit and Lemmy can self host then an equivalent forum could do it too.

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  • NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You aren’t “archiving” shit of this magnitude. Forums and hosts get the real letters and even the more permissive countries and hosts tend to have minimal issues taking action for these kinds of leaks. They are just as transient as chat rooms with a much bigger investment to run

    Which leave “dark web” sites that very much do exist but don’t get linked in news articles

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• seathru@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And Usenet before that.

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