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

  • 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.