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The reason for this decision is purely the hardware resources needed to maintain it and the fact that the service is greatly abused and misused by a large majority of users. For a while now we are struggling with situation where we pull a lot of news items (about 1 million a week), out of which about 10k-20k of them are set to read after three weeks.