It begins…

Found out via this post

Interesting side-note, reddit’s anti-VPN policies and blocking some archivers like ghostarchive.

  • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    91·
    8 hours ago

    Tbh these really are low-usage features, I didn’t know about any of them, aside from the snoovatars that I’ve always found stupid. So I don’t think anyone could be pushed away from the site because of this.

    OTOH, if they’re low-usage, why remove them? Do they spend too much bandwidth, CPU, whatever??

    • lud@lemm.ee
      131·
      8 hours ago

      OTOH, if they’re low-usage, why remove them? Do they spend too much bandwidth, CPU, whatever??

      It’s generally desirable to remove old code and features to make the code neater. It’s also possible that some bug happened because of those features.

      • Valmond@lemmy.world
        182·
        8 hours ago

        It’s usually better to not touch code that is working, it won’t become “clean” just because you deactivate some stuff and if you do try to actually remove code (to “clean” things, whatever that means in a setting bigger than a small project), good luck not breaking anything.

        Source: oldtimer software dev

        • pingveno@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          6 hours ago

          Code that exists still needs to be updated and maintained. It interacts with the rest of the code. Sure you can leave it lying around, but at a certain point the technical debt is going to catch up to you.