Second that recommendation for Tildes. Not all posts are long but most posters tend to contribute well thought out opinions and the discussion I have seen is uniformly civil.

Yeah it wasn’t so long ago that hard drive storage was more expensive than spindles of CD-Rs and that was around the time that internet and torrenting were taking off. People used to burn CDs full of movies to share and make room to download more. In that use case a unit of 700 MB on write once read many storage was useful if cheap.