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* '''[[Internet Archive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.archive.org/}}) seems stable at the moment but its [https://archive.org/~tracey/mrtg/du.html 16 petabytes] of data aren't mirrored anywhere else, the code for their system isn't open source and generally they're a single point of failure for a large amount of the web's history. Why should there be only 1 internet archive?
* '''[[Internet Archive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.archive.org/}}) seems stable at the moment but its [https://archive.org/~tracey/mrtg/du.html 16 petabytes] of data aren't mirrored anywhere else, the code for their system isn't open source and generally they're a single point of failure for a large amount of the web's history. Why should there be only 1 internet archive?
** There seems to be a second instance at [http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.aspx Bibliotheca Alexandrina] although it's currently broken and out of date.
** There seems to be a second instance at [http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.aspx Bibliotheca Alexandrina] although it's currently broken and out of date.
** More discussion at [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK]]
*'''[[JSFiddle]]''' ({{url|1=http://jsfiddle.net/}}) is referenced in many StackOverflow answers, as well as other forums, etc. It shows no signs of going away, but should we archive it just in case?
*'''[[JSFiddle]]''' ({{url|1=http://jsfiddle.net/}}) is referenced in many StackOverflow answers, as well as other forums, etc. It shows no signs of going away, but should we archive it just in case?
*'''[[Know Your Meme]]''' ({{url|1=http://knowyourmeme.com/}}) is at this point the de facto central repository for information on internet memes and culture. It is as popular as ever at the moment, but even with this popularity, former owners Rocketboom had trouble financing it. In the spring of 2011 was sold to Cheezburger Networks, a site which has been known to "reorganize" its properties, sometimes with a detrimental effect on content. Though it was quite a different story, I might remind people what happened to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]].
*'''[[Know Your Meme]]''' ({{url|1=http://knowyourmeme.com/}}) is at this point the de facto central repository for information on internet memes and culture. It is as popular as ever at the moment, but even with this popularity, former owners Rocketboom had trouble financing it. In the spring of 2011 was sold to Cheezburger Networks, a site which has been known to "reorganize" its properties, sometimes with a detrimental effect on content. Though it was quite a different story, I might remind people what happened to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]].

Revision as of 01:37, 9 March 2015

Like many sites before them, these places indicate a sunny outlook, a clean bill of health and a total sense of "all systems go". But as we've found out from those many sites before them, fortunes can change overnight.

Archive Team considers these sites specifically of interest because they solicit so much content, contain so many works and projects by a wide group of people, or have the internet particularly dependent on them. Consider this a fire drill.. know what you can do to get your data off these sites and back them off for later.

Still Alive

Not so alive, rather living deads (owned by Yahoo!)

  • Flickr contains billions of files, hundreds millions of which are under a Creative Commons license or stored there by many museums and other cultural institutions. The site was tumblr-ised in 2013 and has been poorly functional ever since; pro users were removed, so it doesn't yet have a business model. Additionally, it's owned by Yahoo!, need to say more?!

All the others

So Worried

Did someone leave the oven on?

  • FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]) has been purchased by Facebook, leaving FriendFeed users uncertain as to its future and mostly unsupported. The Twitter bridge, for instance, has not worked for years now.
  • Ning in 2010 has laid off 40% of staff and seems to be running out of money [1]. There is certainly some networks worth archiving among the 2 million networks[2] they host. Grouply[3] and Posterous[4] say they are going to offer migration tools.
  • As of 2014, ScraperWiki Classic is now read-only. But don’t worry! You can transfer this scraper to Morph.io if you want to continue editing it.
  • Convozine hasn't been active lately. Their last reply to a support question was in 2012, their last update in the "News" section was December 2011, and their last blog post was in January 2013. (See [5] and [6].)
  • debates.oireachtas.ie on September 18th, 2012 the Houses of Oireachtas website announced that it would no longer be updating its XMl data for Irish parliamentary debates (1919-2012). Access to pre-existing data is still available, but is likely to disappear, if the current trend continues. It would be useful to at least capture the XML data that is there, while it is still available.
  • ownlog.com - once one of the most popular and oldest blog platform in Poland seems to be dying slowly - no development and actualizations except most critical maintenance.
  • The Grid (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 (see here) not sure how long the site will stay up. Saved by ArchiveBot
  • Nakido (site) claims to be a "time capsule" that will "host your files for decades" - except it's a commercial enterprise selling premium acounts, and uses a proprietary P2P platform for delivery. What could possibly go wrong?
  • Groklaw will no longer be posting new articles, "due to government monitoring of the internet, particularly e-mail." Whether or not its archives will remain online is unclear, although it does seem rather unlikely it will 100% disappear. OTOH, better safe than sorry.
  • Strawpoll.me
  • The Centralstation Community has closed. The site is a UK-based social network for artists and creatives that provides hosting for content and portfolio. Users are being advised to back up their work as the new version of their platform will rely on existing media hosting sites like Flickr, Vimeo, and Soundcloud.

Fire Alarm Sounds Like Whoop Whoop Whoop

I smell smoke.

  • Ovi Store's infrastructure is slowly rotting away.
  • Blip.tv will be removing accounts/videos on September 1st, 2014.

See Also

References

  1. ↑ http://gamemakerblog.com/2014/10/04/its-official-digital-store-will-replace-gamemaker-sandbox/
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