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[–] frezik@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago

Excel has a purpose, but storing data long term isn't it. It's for calculating data. It shouldn't be the single source of truth.

One of the things Microsoft did to make it work was extending the row limit from 65k to 1M. Apparently, Economics professors were very excited about that one, which explains a lot.