And that is why traditional web forums and their discoverability are great. This wouldn’t work on Reddit or Discord.
The closest solution you could probably find would be for the mods to pin the post to the top, but in my experience most people just ignore pinned posts except in very specific cases.
https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/25kvjo/reddit_ch...
Even if all of this would be in a Reddit thread I’d argue the usability of their site has declined to a point where using it for longer reading is unpleasant. (Login-Wall, collapsed threads, slow JavaScript frontend)
So yeah discoverable yes, but nobody would use it like that.
Not anymore.
That format just promotes reposting and restating the exact points that were popular 6 months ago. There have been many times I have had something to contribute to a discussion and have been rebuffed by the "This thread has been archived" popup. Truly any thread more than a year could not survive most current social conglomerates, I understand the scaling issues but it does not make it untrue.
Faaaack, I’m still maintaining this 17yo Toyota. I need those brake change pictures!
On web forums, a new comment on a thread automatically bumps that thread up to the top of the thread list, which means that even after a pause, existing threads gain traction like if they were new threads. (Possibly even more than new threads, due to the existing contents.) That way it’s easy to have a focused discussion for weeks/months/years on a particular subtopic.
In any case, I’ve never experienced reviving old threads to be a significant issue, or to happen inappropriately to any significant degree.
I realize that where i am enthusiastic about older things, cars/bikes/tech/languages, you probably like new stuff. I hope you realize that most of the zombie revivalists agree with me. Most of the time we are looking for a new solution to an old problem, which is the definition of progress. Locking threads after 6 months (thanks Reddit) or berating someone who want to revive an old topic, cripples progress.
What we need are search engines to offer an opt-in view or keyword which prioritizes this genre of valuable older evergrowing content. Perhaps Brave Goggles can be adapted to this purpose, using HN reposts and other signals of longevity.
The great thing about old style forums is that you'll check it once in a while and just go looking for the "latest" message, almost like joining IRC after a few days. You can go look at earlier messages but it's not always necessary.
Or am I wrong - can you make some sub-reddits work that way ?
For the rare times I want to navigate to that cesspool I have to manually change the URL to “old” but it’s just a matter of time before they get rid of it.
Not to mention all the other issues that plague the site. Archived posts, dead links, deleted posts, deleted comments, deleted entire subreddits, and more. It’s not a place to effectively find older content much less truly old content. And worst of all the search function is comically useless so much so that there is practically zero self discovering within Reddit itself. You must exit Reddit and search on a search engine with “reddit” at the end of your query.
What a junk site.