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0 pointscassianoleal1y ago0 comments

These had always been public channels. Saying it's a breach of trust that an unofficial archive exists feels a bit heavy-handed. It's like complaining about the web archive.

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theshrike791y ago

I'm not talking about a massive channel like #c++ or something, more like a ~40-50 person channel, where someone just joins and appears to lurk.

Unknown to everyone they're logging content, grabbing URLs and posting it all online.

It's like archive.org logging in to a private forum with an account and scraping the content for public sharing.

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0 pointscassianoleal1y ago0 comments

These had always been public channels. Saying it's a breach of trust that an unofficial archive exists feels a bit heavy-handed. It's like complaining about the web archive.

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theshrike791y ago

I'm not talking about a massive channel like #c++ or something, more like a ~40-50 person channel, where someone just joins and appears to lurk.

Unknown to everyone they're logging content, grabbing URLs and posting it all online.

It's like archive.org logging in to a private forum with an account and scraping the content for public sharing.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse