Okay but we do have to realize you’re talking about all of the articles and videos and everything else just gone.
It does not cost a lot of money to keep a website running. They could have archived the flash videos. They could have put up a big banner that said this website will not receive any more updates but we’re keeping this information available to the public for historical purposes.
They could have reached out to archive.org and said hey we want to shut this down but we think people would feel bad about that so how about we’ll give you a nice little donation and you guys can put up an archive link?
There are a lot of options other than just destroying something simply because it provides you no value.
Okay but we do have to realize you’re talking about all of the articles and videos and everything else just gone.
It does not cost a lot of money to keep a website running. They could have archived the flash videos. They could have put up a big banner that said this website will not receive any more updates but we’re keeping this information available to the public for historical purposes.
They could have reached out to archive.org and said hey we want to shut this down but we think people would feel bad about that so how about we’ll give you a nice little donation and you guys can put up an archive link?
There are a lot of options other than just destroying something simply because it provides you no value.