Yea Forums's fireden archive is gone

>in some form
You could not reasonably access old posts, that was good enough for me. Once shit hit page 15 it was gone.

>What does the transient nature of the futaba / 2ch format provide?
Moot was always begging due to server costs even with the limits. I'm sure the site wouldn't exist if they had to try and store everything.

Before the advent of archive sites it meant that you had to be there to know for sure.
Everything was word of mouth, so newfags couldn't just look at knowyourmeme (or whatever the fuck it is) or archives and get the full story.
Oldfags were more important since they could tell you secrets behind esoteric jokes that newfags simply couldn't understand.
It was a good time

Nyaa and Sadpanda should have taught you it's good to have more than one option