Why does nobody talk about how fast old forum threads disappear...

I was trying to look up a guide on fixing a broken sprinkler valve from 2017 last night. Found a thread on some gardening forum with step by step photos. Clicked the link and it was 404. Checked Wayback and even that only had a partial capture from 2019. The photos were gone. The whole thing just... vanished. Makes me wonder how many useful posts like that get eaten every day. Anyone else run into a specific dead link that had the exact info you needed?

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craig.brian9d ago

Did you check if the images were hosted on a site like Imgur? I found a few old posts by searching the exact title in quotes on Google.

anderson.spencer8d agoTop Commenter

Googled my own username once and found a pic of me eating cake from 2007, not my finest moment.