# Topic Yearly Auto Archive

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-yearly-auto-archive/47787>\
**Category:** Plugin\
**Created:** [July 25, 2016, 10:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-yearly-auto-archive/47787 "2016-07-25T22:55:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 2:56pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-yearly-auto-archive/47787/4 "2016-10-01T14:56:58Z")

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Another valid example is, a game company has a beta or alpha for a game. Three years later, the game is no longer like the beta or alpha and much different, if anyone even plays it any more? So why keep the alpha and beta categories at all..

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