Didn't Reddit lose user account data at least once after start-up (as I seem to recall from personal experience)?
I know that MSN lost a lot of user account data soon after its start-up, way back in the 1990s. Preserving data for an online community is not easy, even for richly funded market entrants.
They had a laptop stolen that had a backup of their database. After it was stolen they let users know about the theft and that passwords were stored as plain text. I don't believe any data was ever lost.
I know that MSN lost a lot of user account data soon after its start-up, way back in the 1990s. Preserving data for an online community is not easy, even for richly funded market entrants.