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I'm curious why there isn't (as far as I'm aware at the moment) to prohibit the ability to respond to a post 3+ years ago
Why would there be? Old threads can be very useful after years and discussion can continue especially with software related threads. I find lots of bug fixes for stuff on reddit years ago that gets updated by a single person posting years later with a fix for something on the subreddits that dont annoyingly auto archive “old” posts
Being able to respond to old posts is a good thing, like classic forums. I always hated that Reddit didn't allow you to do that, and Reddit also didn't have sort options for New Comments or Active.
Imagine if someone made a post about a tech issue, it ranked high on Google results, lots of people in the comments with the same issue, and you found the solution, but the post was too old to reply to.