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Oh no, I always begin my morning with digged articles from 2007. Actually, no I don't. So, who cares, apart from SEO guys?

And I love how they say: What would've been the harm in leaving those archives up? It's not that complicated.

Of course it's not complicated, it's actually fun! What can be better than starting a new project with importing old and unwanted records from a screwed up database?

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Mainly, it's always bad form to delete user's data. But also, this stuff is useful to historians. For example, here's a site that just posts interesting things about the Geocities archive (which Yahoo deleted but some archivists mostly mirrored first). http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/archives/2559

They didn't delete users' data, they preferred not to import it into their brand new product.

They will also allow users to download data later: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4325004

As for historians, the content is still out there. Digg doesn't host content, it "hosts" links.

Content including what links they liked, when. Possibly other data but I didn't use digg so I don't know specifically.

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