This work is so critical.

Read an article that was published just 10 years ago, and witness the bit rot as most external links will 404, gone forever.

I think it's worth questioning the value of preserving -everything-, but it seems like if we can, we should.

You know, I had the (at time of writing) 600 something comments ran through Opus 4.5 and do a summary of the sentiments. It could't find a single comment that genuinely defends Spotify or expresses sympathy for the company.

HN crowd is, of course, biased in the technocratic sense, but you see - everyone seems to actually rejoice the move.

The closest to remorse is `linhns` and `locusofself` expressing concern about artists getting hurt (not Spotify itself), but locusofself prefaces with "I hate spotify as a company but..."

(disclaimer: this text is NOT LLM generated, I wrote myself a summary of the summary. here's the Claude thread should anyone care https://claude.ai/share/cfc4ca63-2b9e-47ac-a360-202025d1a134)