>>7895The fact is websites like lainchan, e.g. most chans, were never intended to have history. What 404s is gone for ever. That is the second most important thing about them, the first being the perceived anonymity. That is what gives rise to the culture of these places. What little history is needed is kept alive in the collective memory of the users, past on to the next generation of newfriends by "lurk more". A written history, an archive, will change that. As you say, if this is for better or worse is just opinion, but personally I wouldn't want change and I'm sure others will agree.
>Hence why a non bias archiver is needed because everyone has a different perspective on eventsSo? Differing perspectives are what make it interesting. History would not be such an great subject if we knew exactly what had happened, even 50 years ago. For gods sake, this is an imageboard! We don't need to know exactly what post number x was about and frankly we shouldn't care.
>And no one is going to want to archive the bad times because they were bad times. Germany is still trying to ignore that nazi ever happen. Its human nature. But non-bias history is important. And context is everything. We can't have without an archive.If no one wants to then don't do it.
As a state Germany is doing the opposite.
Non-biased history is important (though hard to come by) in the real world, though for an imageboard seems pointless.
We've worked without an archive for now, we can continue without one into the future as well.
