Is there an archive for /tech/?

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Is there an archive for /tech/? Anonymous 04/14/15 (Tue) 15:06:06 6b981a No.306

Should there be an archive? I didn't see it on 8archive.moe.

If not, is there a reason?

Anonymous 04/16/15 (Thu) 05:29:03 bc989a No.314

We had a referendum about this courtesy of the board owner. Majority were against board archival.

Anonymous 04/16/15 (Thu) 16:47:06 6b981a No.316

>>314
Ah, okay. Mind explaining why? It doesn't seem to me to do more harm than good, but you probably have a good reason against it.

Anonymous 04/16/15 (Thu) 20:25:13 36fe2d No.317

Main arguments against it were ephemerality and such.
if you like a thread, archive it yourself.

Anonymous 05/21/15 (Thu) 02:01:40 c801c1 No.505

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>>317

>if you like a thread, archive it yourself.

What if you didn't realize you liked a thread and then by the time you realize it it's already too late?

Anonymous 05/22/15 (Fri) 02:20:26 92b420 No.506

>>505

Once this happens enough times you automate your own personal archiving system so it doesn't become an issue. You're downloading it already, what's a few gigs worth of space taken up really worth nowadays?

If you need irrefutable evidence of the existence of a thread you should have used a neutral third party archiving service.

Anonymous 05/24/15 (Sun) 04:54:23 000000 No.519

Archives were one of the factors of imageboard demise. Normies felt even more assured forum-like place needs forum-like discussions.

Anonymous 05/24/15 (Sun) 14:34:10 a5c391 No.527

>>505

Start your personal archiver, keep it private, when /tech/ one day decides to change their mind you can make it public. You can switch between publicizing your archiver and keeping it private accordingly.

Anonymous 06/02/15 (Tue) 01:10:38 1ed840 No.596

An archive could be nice so that people could reference it if they had questions before asking. There might have been a discussion of interest that had already 404'd. Just saying.

Anonymous 06/22/15 (Mon) 21:25:03 2f6b91 No.718

>>596

Also, it would be nice to be able to say "there have literally been 20 threads recommending (DDG, Bleep, BT Sync, Vivaldi, etc) in the past 2 weeks here is the archive link, educate urself newfag"

Anonymous 06/22/15 (Mon) 21:25:35 2f6b91 No.719

>>317

>ephemerality

What are the benefits of this?

Anonymous 06/24/15 (Wed) 02:47:31 0d05de No.731

>>718

This, I am a newfag and would like to educate myself.

Anonymous 07/01/15 (Wed) 14:51:50 5520e5 No.757

>>719

I agree, just seems stupid.

Anonymous 08/06/15 (Thu) 22:06:35 000000 No.803

>>719