I'm curious what you've decided the purpose of this site is. This seems like a huge issue to discuss around the future of software and the concept of "abandonware", as well as a cautionary tale about DRM, scaling, and failing to plan for success. All sounds about right to me for this site.

I think it's a fairly poignant example of what happens when SaaS fails, and what it means when you have a SaaS business offering.

I'm genuinely curious as to why you think having two separate but related threads on a forum is of any consequence. It seems that every other minute someone here dramatizes these submissions, as if having a line of text in the feed that you're not personally interested in is somehow akin to the tragedies of rape and murder (hyperbole intended).

I assure you, the people constantly complaining about every submission is far more annoying than the occasional (subjectively) extraneous submission.

When you say tangential, I assume you mean orthogonal?