There are very good technical reasons for this design, but there are also very good human reasons for this too .

As my old man said to me many moons ago when I was first designing this (he helped and contributed ideas here!):

If I said something X ago, I don’t want someone to say “Hey but X ago you said this”. What if I’ve changed my mind since then and now have a different opinion?

I’m paraphrasing here of course, we talk regularly on the phone, but a lot of ideas ans inspiration has come from my Dad 👌 – The idea here is that Humans forget, so should Yarn.social

@prologic@twtxt.net humans forget because it is a flaw, and we should not imitate a flaw. I disagree with this logic completely, and that’s the reason why I keep the cache size I keep on this pod: I want to see, browse, search, and find everything that is in it.

Changing one’s mind doesn’t change what we once thought, or said. Remembering is a good way to avoid repeating.

@ullarah@txt.quisquiliae.com that’s a good plan! 😜

@prologic@twtxt.net I agree. One shouldn’t need to have a huge cache to take advantage of what’s in the archive, right? How to load the archive on demand is the question, I think.