>>1386525>4chan is is extremely minimal.1.25 tb of data is being hosted right now, 4chan gets at least 10k users, a thread can have 150 4mb images on most boards, so 600mb per thread per user. Or 10k times 600mb, which is 6 terabytes of data to be uploaded to clients. A few extra megabytes per reply wouldn't be anywhere near as significant. And if it was, Hiro could always reduce the archive time on a board that doesn't really need it, like /bant/