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* '''[[h2g2]]''' ({{url|1=https://www.h2g2.com}}) was (among?) the first [https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A550955 online, collaborative encyclopaedia(s)].
* '''[[h2g2]]''' ({{url|1=https://www.h2g2.com}}) was (among?) the first [https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A550955 online, collaborative encyclopaedia(s)].
* '''[[IFTTT]]''' ({{url|1=http://ifttt.com/}}) is still growing.
* '''[[IFTTT]]''' ({{url|1=http://ifttt.com/}}) is still growing.
* '''[[Internet Archive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.archive.org/}}) seems stable at the moment but its [https://archive.org/~tracey/mrtg/du.html 28 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 45 petabytes] of data (as of October 2018) 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Bibliotheca Alexandrina] although it's currently broken and out of date.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 is a second instance of the Wayback Machine at [http://www.bibalex.org/isis/frontend/archive/archive_web.aspx Bibliotheca Alexandrina], but it appears to have been broken since several years as of October 2018 ("The Resource you have requested is temporarily unavailable" when trying to access a snapshot as of 2018-10-03). It also hasn't been updated since 2007, i.e. all crawl data since 2008 is only available at the Internet Archive.
** More discussion at [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK]]
** More discussion at [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK]]
* '''[[Invisionfree]]''' ({{url|1=http://invisionfree.com/}}) is as far as I can tell not used by as many people nowadays as before, probably because other free forum hosts use better forum software like phpBB that has better layout and looks better. The copyright notice on [http://www.zifboards.com/ zIFBoards.com], which [http://invisionfree.com/ Invisionfree.com] redirects to, has not been updated since 2014.
* '''[[Invisionfree]]''' ({{url|1=http://invisionfree.com/}}) is as far as I can tell not used by as many people nowadays as before, probably because other free forum hosts use better forum software like phpBB that has better layout and looks better. The copyright notice on [http://www.zifboards.com/ zIFBoards.com], which [http://invisionfree.com/ Invisionfree.com] redirects to, has not been updated since 2014.
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* The '''Centralstation Community''' [http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/_Central-Station-v2-Q38As/blog/5449967/126249.html 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.
* The '''Centralstation Community''' [http://community.thisiscentralstation.com/_Central-Station-v2-Q38As/blog/5449967/126249.html 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.
* '''[https://addons.mozilla.org/ addons.mozilla.org]''' - On November 2017, Mozilla will release Firefox 57, which will only support WebExtensions.<ref>https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-add-technology-modernizing</ref> It is currently unclear what exactly will happen with the thousands of "legacy add-ons". Currently, later versions of Firefox will be unable to download these addons, though the download link can still be easily reached by digging into the source code.


* Most of the paid staff at '''The Escapist''' [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/171005-Open-Letter-to-The-Escapist-Community has been "relieved of their duties"] as of October 20, 2017, and the future and longevity of the site is uncertain; it's currently run mostly through volunteer efforts.
* Most of the paid staff at '''The Escapist''' [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/171005-Open-Letter-to-The-Escapist-Community has been "relieved of their duties"] as of October 20, 2017, and the future and longevity of the site is uncertain; it's currently run mostly through volunteer efforts.

Revision as of 14:21, 3 October 2018

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

Owned by Yahoo! Imminent Demise!

  • 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?!

Watchlist

Endangered

Did someone leave the oven on?

  • 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.
  • 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. Here's a WARC archive of the XML only.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Seene (https://seene.co/u/docpop/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]) "lets you capture and share a new kind of 3D photo that brings together image, depth and movement to create a richer, more interactive experience, all on your iPhone." Unique content, but recently acquired by SnapChat - no new product updates since 2015. Likely to shut soon, unique and cool content.
  • 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.
  • Most of the paid staff at The Escapist has been "relieved of their duties" as of October 20, 2017, and the future and longevity of the site is uncertain; it's currently run mostly through volunteer efforts.

Alarm

I smell smoke.

  • CtoSims Has been infected with a Javascript that redirects to different pages, and the owner seems to have not been active for a long time. The entire site now redirects to a placeholder page that says "Coming Soon!". As of December 2016, All Downloads have been taken down as well.
  • YTMND - supposed to be "closing down soon" in 2016, but still up 2 years later.

See Also

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