We built it in such a way that there was no going back after we turned on v4. The v4 redesign involved a complete overhaul of the front end and the backend.
Thanks for answering these questions. It's nice to have some insight into how it all went down.
My question is this: was the decision to kill the old comments, diggs, etc a business one, or something that had to be cut for time or engineering constraints? Did someone in management just want to break with the past, so to speak? What was the motivation to destroy all that old content? I remember some talk from Kevin shortly after the redesign stating that rollback was impossible - or possibly from Leo Laporte on TWiT (it's not important, I suppose) but when I heard that, I knew it was over...
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Thanks for answering these questions. It's nice to have some insight into how it all went down.
My question is this: was the decision to kill the old comments, diggs, etc a business one, or something that had to be cut for time or engineering constraints? Did someone in management just want to break with the past, so to speak? What was the motivation to destroy all that old content? I remember some talk from Kevin shortly after the redesign stating that rollback was impossible - or possibly from Leo Laporte on TWiT (it's not important, I suppose) but when I heard that, I knew it was over...
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