I remember Reddit having a similar restriction; however, that was removed. Is it really that expensive to retrieve older posts? This site is virtually inactive and only contains a few thousand posts. At the very least, users should be allowed to comment on posts until this site explodes in popularity.
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I wasn't even aware that posts a year old got archived. That is pretty shite. The archive limit should definitely be longer than one year, personally I'd set it at somewhere between 3 to 5 years and that's only if content needs to be archived for some server resource reason, otherwise I'd just keep all content active. Why limit where people can post when you don't have to and you're trying to grow the site? Having a huge percent of site content rendered non-interactive seems very self defeating.
Any thoughts from our valiant leader /u/Cicero?
I suppose I could extend it. I don't exactly remember why I added archives to begin with. Been working on mainchan so long, I kind of forget why I've done this or that.
you underestimate how much "a few thousand" is