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by NelsonMinar
1202 days ago
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That's a historically inaccurate view. Usenet was well on its way to cultural irrelevance long before Google bought DejaNews. Google bought Deja to rescue it, it was literally days from failing entirely and was a huge scramble to bring their archive online at Google. There was no grand strategy to bootstrap Deja into a forum product, Google had no strategy at all for forum / social media in that era. Google didn't implement anything "on top of Deja", the code base was entirely abandoned, all that was brought over was the archive and maybe some tools for cleaning data. Proposing "fall back to Usenet" in 2023 makes about as much sense as "folks who use Slack should just use IRC". |
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Hey! :-( IRC is still alive and kicking, thank you very much!