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As useless and pithy it is to say "just restore from backup", having your livelihood (or a significant time investment) depend on a system far outside of your c
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As useless and pithy it is to say "just restore from backup", having your livelihood (or a significant time investment) depend on a system far outside of your control, where you have no service guarantees or even a billable relationship, is a fairly shaky ground to stand on. Ultimately if you spend your time producing digital assets, you should have taken action to ensure you had ownership and control over them somewhere.
- dang 5y ago> you should have Please don't scold someone who's already in a shitty situation, or lecture them with the obvious. That breaks the HN guidelines, notably this one: "Be kind." It's extremely easy to do this kind of thing on the internet and not as easy to realize the effect it has on people, and also on the community. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- antoniuschan99 5y agoI hope she can recover those videos. Aside from not backing up initially, I’m also wondering why or if she did anything after getting those 3 strike warnings :$
- ForHackernews 5y agoWhat can you do? Isn't a bot? It's not like you can respond and explain yourself.
- IshKebab 5y agoI think he meant something like "shit they're going to remove all my videos in 2 days, I'd better back them up".
- markdown 5y agoI know this, you know this, and OP has for damned sure just realised this, as has anyone else who's read this post. What the purpose of your comment? It's not helpful.
- sodality2 5y agoTo give everyone else who hasn't done these things a harsh reminder of the damage it could bring if you don't.
- indymike 5y agoMaybe leave out the harsh?
- stingraycharles 5y agoThe grandparent’s post sounds like it was written towards the OP, though, not everyone else. If that weren’t the case, I agree with you, it’s a good message to spread.
- rapfaria 5y agoI'm not sure OP has realised this, with remarks like "indicating cyber bullying".
- ______-_-______ 5y agoIf even one person sees that comment and pulls their content out of the google ecosystem, then the comment was helpful. Run this: youtube-dl https://youtube.com/c/MyChannel https://youtube.com/c/MyChannel and have a snack while it finishes. You'll thank yourself later.
- _dain_ 5y agoHow are normies supposed to know this?
- rootusrootus 5y agoThings like this happen, get escalated to the media, and it creates public awareness of the risks of hosting digital content only in the cloud on servers that you don't own and don't even pay for. In other words, the next generation of normies will probably understand this because of people before them learning the hard way.
- charcircuit 5y agoBecause it's happened before. Leafyishere had 5 million subs but his channel got deleted from getting 3 "bullying" strikes all at once.