[pjlegato]

Comments here have never been temporary.

Hacker News itself has for many years provided a free near-realtime API and a variety of large datasets to the world for the specific purpose of making it easy for anyone to analyze our comments here. (https://github.com/HackerNews/API)

No comments you write on the Internet have ever been temporary. They stopped even pretending to be so 20+ years ago.

[RamblingCTO]

Yes I know that. But they become irrelevant pretty quick. It's not like someone comments on a post from a year ago typically. That's what I mean