On Wednesday, 22 August 2018 at 05:05:48 UTC, Neia Neutuladh
wrote:
The dlang bugzilla and forum are both hosted on dlang-specific
servers. If they go down, it's easy to get a replica and get
back up and running in a few hours. Same with the wiki.
If github went down or banned the dlang org, we'd lose
in-progress pull requests and the history of pull request
comments. Aside from that, we would be up and running on gitlab
or what have you in hours.
If Stack Overflow went down, we'd have to find an alternative,
and then we'd have to figure out how to import that data. That
could take weeks. And it will happen eventually.
It is weird that you make loosing current and historical pull
requests is minor compared to:
* Having all the data readily available for search engines to
have archived (today, not tomorrow).
* Having an established forum/newsgroup readily available to
handle the load of new questions.
I just don't see data retention and recovery for StackOverflow to
be a concern for making such a choice. Even if it did take weeks
or months to host the historical data, risk should be weighed
against possible benefit from visibility and growth from heavily
using StackOverflow.
