[addaon]

But the event store is also your undo stack, then. Keeping it infinite (or deliberately trimming it at application launch) improves user experience.

[mbreese]

Only for some use cases. I don’t think the parent is arguing for forcing compaction. I’d personally use this with periodic compaction (cronjob), but I can see the utility either way.

[throwup238]

You can selectively compact the journal to only compact the numerous GUI events leaving domain events uncompacted (I do this for a CAD app I develop)