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[โ€“] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just thinking about the fields and fields of car, electric, and plumbing forums all sitting out there with broken links and dead photobucket / imgur embedded pictures....

[โ€“] Kecessa 4 points 1 year ago

That's an issue with the cost of storage back then meaning that people needed external hosts, but these days if Reddit and Lemmy can self host then an equivalent forum could do it too.