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asdffyesterday at 8:17 PM2 repliesview on HN

Why do companies always do this? Always the largest companies with all the money to quietly host what at most a couple hundred mb of data and they just don't. Kill the old download links. Ruin all the old support articles that point to those old download links. Ruin all the old forum posts that point there. What is even crazier is sometimes they still have the files they just don't expose them, they make you beg for them with the support agent from across the world who asks if you have tried unplugging the thing first when you ask for the download you know you already want. Infuriating, boring dystopia.


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fragmedeyesterday at 8:31 PM

Because they're changing out their backend CMS and have deemed it too expensive to port ask three old documentation over.