<story><title>So Long, MSDN Blog</title><url>https://ericlippert.com/2019/03/21/so-long-msdn-blog/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MrRadar</author><text>In addition to this, on the blogs that were migrated to the new platform (such as Raymond Chen&amp;#x27;s Old New Thing) all of the comments have been purged. That&amp;#x27;s extremely unfortunate because those comments had a lot of useful technical commentary on the blog posts.</text></comment>
<story><title>So Long, MSDN Blog</title><url>https://ericlippert.com/2019/03/21/so-long-msdn-blog/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>AndrewStephens</author><text>The is highly unfortunate and a bone-headed move by Microsoft. But it does highlight two points that often get missed now that we rely on the web.&lt;p&gt;1 - If you don&amp;#x27;t host your own content then you have no control over it. Microsoft deleted all their blogs. YouTube and Facebook will one day cease to exist. This comment and all of yours will disappear once news.ycombinator.com is defunct. If you want something to last, host it yourself or be prepared to recreate it somewhere else every few years.&lt;p&gt;2 - Once you publish something at a URL you control (see point 1), you have a responsibility to keep it available at the same URL. Nobody is going to hold you to it but you will break 3rd party sites that link to you. Microsoft really dropped the ball here.</text></comment>