https://wiki.archiveteam.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=DigitalDragon&feedformat=atomArchiveteam - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T13:54:00ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.37.1https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Current_Projects&diff=51658Current Projects2024-02-05T22:45:21Z<p>DigitalDragon: add Vbox7</p>
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== Archive Team recruiting ==<br />
* Help us: '''[[ArchiveTeam_Warrior|☞ Download and run your warrior ☜]]'''.<br />
* What's on: [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/ online tracker].<br />
* [[Donate|Donate to keep our projects going]].<br />
* [[Dev|Want to code for Archive Team? Here's a starting point.]]<br />
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== Warrior-based projects ==<br />
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=== Short-term, urgent projects ===<br />
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* [[Blogger]]: Grabbing inactive Blogger blogs before Google begins a mass purge of inactive Google accounts on or after {{datetime|2023-12-01}}. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|frogger}}'''.<br />
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=== Medium-term projects ===<br />
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=== Long-term projects ===<br />
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* [[GitHub]]: Embraced-uh, I mean, bought by Microsoft. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|gitgud}}'''.<br />
* [[Imgur]]: Unregistered users' "old" and "inactive" images will be purged, and all NSFW content is being shown the door on {{datetime|2023-05-15}}. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|imgone}}'''.<br />
* [[MediaFire]]: [https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1349516443654758401 Not 'at-risk' but grabbing speculatively to save historic files] '''IRC Channel {{IRC|mediaonfire}}'''.<br />
* [[Pastebin]]: Archiving the pastas. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|pastalavista}}'''.<br />
* [[Reddit]]: Banning communities that generate bad PR for Reddit Inc. Restricted access to APIs and data on {{datetime|2023-06-19}}. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|shreddit}}'''.<br />
* [[Telegram]]: Archiving public messages in various newsworthy and/or otherwise notable Telegram channels. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|telegrab}}'''.<br />
* [[URLTeam]]: URL shorteners were a fucking awful idea. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|urlteam}}'''.<br />
* [[URLs]]: A random collection of stuff. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|//}}'''.<br />
* [[YouTube]]: Archiving [[YouTube#Scope|selected videos]]. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|down-the-tube}}'''.<br />
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''An [[ArchiveTeam_Warrior|updated Warrior virtual appliance (v3.2)]] is now available with better support for newer projects that utilize wget-at.''<br />
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== Manual projects ==<br />
* [[ArchiveBot]]: For those with lots of disk space, bandwidth and long-term commitment. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|archivebot}}'''.<br />
* [[Codearchiver]]: Dumping and archival of source code repositories and associated version control systems. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|codearchiver}}'''.<br />
* Dead people: When people die, their webpages and/or social media might go "Poof!" due to fees and other knick-knack. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|archiveteam}}'''<br />
* [[WikiTeam]]: Saving wikis dumps (XML). And their external links for the Wayback Machine (WARC) as well as exporting MediaWiki databases. Permanent effort, [https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/wiki/Tutorial#I_have_no_shell_access_to_server everyone can help] (you choose the size of your downloads). '''IRC Channel {{IRC|wikiteam}}'''.<br />
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== Upcoming & proposed projects ==<br />
<!-- Websites you would like to have archived. Please create a wikipage about the project with information about the website (shutting down? (when), why should it be archived, etc.). --><br />
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* [[Chrome Web Store]]: Google has announced a timeline of policy changes that will lead to content being removed between {{datetime|2021-12-01}} and 2025. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|chromeweblore}}'''.<br />
* [[Vbox7]]: A bulgarian video hosting site is getting rid of all user-uploaded videos on {{datetime|2024-2-22}}. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|vboxxy}}'''<br />
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* [[Photobucket]]: Finally following through on over a year of email threats that free accounts are going to be mass deactivated if they don't pay up. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|photosucket}}'''.<br />
* Abandoned iOS App Store & Google Play apps: Both Apple and Google are slimming down on abandoned apps, [https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/one-third-of-apple-and-google-apps-are-so-outdated-they-could-get-removed/ with an estimated ~1.5M of them at risk]. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|appocalypse}}'''.<br />
* [[Twitter]]: General instability; deleting inactive accounts <s>{{datetime|2019-12-11}}</s> sometime. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|twitterdead|EFnet|abandoned}}'''.<br />
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* [[VKontakte]]: A Russian equivalent of Facebook carries the risk of tumbling down under the weight of sanctions as a result of the government's invasion of Ukraine. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|lostkontakt}}'''.<br />
* [[JamiiForums]]: the Tanzanian government would like this gone. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|jammedforums|EFnet|abandoned}}'''.<br />
* [[LiveJournal]]: Very old, widely regarded as in decline, and has a lot of important stuff buried in it. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|recordedjournal|EFnet|abandoned}}'''.<br />
* [[The Pirate Bay]]: Recently came back up, grabbing an archive for sanity's sake. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|yarharfiddlededee|EFnet|abandoned}}'''.<br />
* [[Valhalla]]: Where to store what even the [[Internet Archive]] doesn't have space for? '''IRC Channel {{IRC|huntinggrounds}}'''.<br />
* [[Giphy]]: Bought by <s>Facebook</s>Shutterstock, to be "integrated" (assimilated) into <s>Instagram</s> https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/facebook-to-buy-giphy<br />
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== Recently finished projects ==<br />
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== On Hiatus ==<br />
* [[Angelfire]]: Angelfire is a web hosting service that contains big chunks of early WWW history and has no proper backup. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|angelonfire}}'''.<br />
* [[Audit2014|Audit 2014]]: It's time to verify our shit. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|auditteam}}'''.<br />
* [[Flickr]]: <s>[[Yahoo!]]</s> SmugMug decided to kill it after finding Yahoo!'s plans to do so before they were bought by Verizon. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|flickrfckr}}'''.<br />
* [[FTP]]: Help us find and download all FTP sites! '''IRC Channel {{IRC|effteepee}}'''.<br />
* [[Google Drive]]: Same as MediaFire. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|googlecrash}}'''. Currently on haitus.<br />
* [[Google Groups]]: "Gone within a year" ([[User:Jscott|SketchCow]], {{datetime|2016-06-07}}).<br />
* [[Google News Archive]]: Let's store all newspapers at Google, WCGW? '''IRC Channel {{IRC|papersplease}}'''.<br />
* [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK]]: Grab a slice of the big cake of [[Internet Archive|The Archive]]! '''IRC Channel {{IRC|internetarchive.bak}}'''.<br />
* [[ISP Hosting]]: Finding ISP web hosting services before the Grim Reaper finds them. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|webroasting}}'''.<br />
* [[Miraheze]]: <s>Shutting down sometime between {{datetime|2023-09-01}} and {{datetime|2023-10-31}}.</s> Rescued by new volunteers!<br />
* [[Project Newsletter]]: Archiving e-newsletters, currently in development. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|projectnewsletter}}'''.<br />
* [[Quizlet]]: Flashcards and other learning tools '''IRC Channel {{IRC|quizletusin}}'''.<br />
* [[Tinkercad]]: Autodesk announced its intent to put designs from inactive OAuth accounts back into minds around {{datetime|2021-05-24}}. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|tinkerhad}}'''.<br />
* [[Tumblr]]: [[Yahoo!]] considered killing it, now Yahoo has been acquired and Verizon declared war on NSFW blogs. Tumblr has since been sold to Automattic. '''IRC Channel {{IRC|tumbledown}}'''.<br />
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<small>ArchiveTeam uses the hackint IRC network – ircs://irc.hackint.org:6697 (TLS required) – webchat: https://webirc.hackint.org/ – [[Archiveteam:IRC|More info]]</small></div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=NewsGrabber&diff=50757NewsGrabber2023-09-11T02:58:05Z<p>DigitalDragon: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = NewsGrabber - Archiving all the world's news!<br />
| image = newssites.png<br />
| URL = https://wiki.newsbuddy.net/Main_Page<br />
| project_status = {{specialcase}}<br />
| archiving_status = Project superseded by [[URLs]]<br />
| archiving_type = DPoS<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/NewsGrabber-Warrior NewsGrabber-Warrior]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/newsgrabber/ newsgrabber]<br />
| irc = newsgrabber<br />
| data = {{IA id|archiveteam_newssites}}<br />
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NewsGrabber is a project to save as many news articles as possible from as many websites as possible. The project is currently on hiatus.<br />
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== Why ==<br />
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A lot of news articles are saved in the Wayback Machine by the Internet Archive. They're mostly saved via the [https://archive.org/details/top_news Top News] collection (part of the Focused Crawls), the [https://archive.org/details/NO404-GDELT crawls of GDELT URLs], [https://archive.org/details/newscrawl International News Crawls] and through general Wide Crawls.<br />
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We think these crawls aren't very complete crawls of the world's news articles.<br />
* Crawls on websites from Top News in Focused Crawls crawl a website from the seed URL up to 5 layers deep. This is done once a day. Not a lot of websites are covered and the websites covered are mostly in English.<br />
* GDELT does a very good job of covering news from around the world, but sometimes misses more local websites and many non-English websites.<br />
* Wide Crawls are focused on the whole World Wide Web, not on news articles.<br />
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== NewsGrabber ==<br />
NewsGrabber is written to solve the problem of missing news articles. NewsGrabber contains a database of URLs to be checked for articles, and allows anyone to add new websites to the database. Multiple seed URLs can be added for each website entry, all of which will be crawled periodically to look for new article URLs. [https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp yt-dlp] can be used to download article URLs, making it possible to preserve news in video-form just as well as news in text-form.<br />
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== How can I help? ==<br />
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There are two ways you can help:<br />
* There are uncountably many news websites in the world. Make our list more complete! Add newssites to our database, see in the next section or [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/NewsGrabber/blob/master/README.md here] how.<br />
* Donate server power for the grabbing process. Join {{IRC|newsgrabber}} and find user [[user:HCross|HCross]].<br />
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== Options ==<br />
NewsGrabber handles several options for discovering and processing URLs. More details about using these options to add new websites can be found in the README of the project [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/NewsGrabber/blob/master/README.md].<br />
=== Refreshtime ===<br />
The refreshtime is the time NewsGrabber waits before crawling the seed URLs of the website. The refreshtime can be as low as 5 seconds.<br />
=== SeedURLs ===<br />
SeedURLs are used by NewsGrabber to discover new articles. Often not all newsarticles are displayed on the front page of a website. They may be spread over several sections or rss feeds. A list of these URLs can be given to NewsGrabber so all articles from these URLs are found and not only those on the frontpage.<br />
=== Videos ===<br />
NewsGrabber supports videos. URLs containing videos are downloaded with [https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp yt-dlp], if they match the regex given for videoURLs.<br />
=== Livepages ===<br />
In case of big events a live page is often created with the latest news on this event. NewsGrabber will grab URLs matching the regex given for liveURLs over and over, and will crawl every new bit of information on them.<br />
=== Immediate grab ===<br />
When emergencies happen newssites try to cover as much as they can about what is happening. Often false information is published on the websites and later removed. To catch articles that are later removed it is possible to make NewsGrabber grab new found articles immediately instead of adding them to the list, which will be grabbed once every hour.<br />
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== Lists to include ==<br />
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:News_agencies (and subcategories)<br />
* [https://query.wikidata.org/#PREFIX%20wd%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fentity%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wdt%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fdirect%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20wikibase%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwikiba.se%2Fontology%23%3E%0APREFIX%20p%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20v%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fstatement%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20q%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikidata.org%2Fprop%2Fqualifier%2F%3E%0APREFIX%20rdfs%3A%20%3Chttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2F01%2Frdf-schema%23%3E%0A%0ASELECT%20%3Fs%20%3FsLabel%20%3Furl%20WHERE%20{%0A%20%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP31%20wd%3AQ11032%20.%0A%20%20%3Fs%20wdt%3AP856%20%3Furl%20%23FILTER%28CONTAINS%28str%28%3Furl%29%2C%20%22%22%29%29%20.%0ASERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20{%0A%20%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22en%22%20.%0A}%0A%0A}%20%0AORDER%20BY%20%3Furl%20%0ALIMIT%202000 Wikidata query of "official websites" of entities which are "instances of" "newspapers"] (1239 results)<br />
*[https://www.dmoz.org/News/ DMOZ - News]<br />
*[http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/ onlinenewspapers.com]<br />
*[http://www.refdesk.com/paper.html refdesk.com]<br />
*[http://www.newslink.org/ NewsLink]<br />
*[https://www.ipl.org/ ipl2]<br />
*[https://www.w3newspapers.com/ w3newspapers]<br />
*[http://www.listofnewspapers.com listofnewspapers.com]<br />
*[https://www.allyoucanread.com/ All You Can Read]<br />
*[https://www.inkdrop.net/news/ English Online International Newspapers]<br />
*[https://www.hotnewspapers.com/ HotNewspapers]<br />
*[https://www.mediaworld.info/ Media World]<br />
*[http://en.newsconc.com/ News Conc]<br />
*[https://newspaperindex.com/ Newspaperindex.com]<br />
*[https://www.newspapers-list.com/ Newspapers List]<br />
*[http://www.newspapersperiodicos.com/english/ Newspapers Periodicos]<br />
*[https://www.prensaescrita.com/newspapers/ Daily newspapers around the world]<br />
*[http://www.allnewspapers.info/ allnewspapers.info]<br />
*[http://www.abyznewslinks.com/ ABYZ News Links]<br />
*[https://www.mondotimes.com/ mondotimes]<br />
*[https://www.50states.com/news/ 50states.com]<br />
*[https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_%C3%B6ver_svenska_dagstidningar List of Swedish newspapers (Wikipedia)]<br />
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[[Category:News]]</div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Domains&diff=50703ArchiveTeam Domains2023-09-04T01:02:28Z<p>DigitalDragon: remove dead domains</p>
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<div>This page lists domains owned by the Archive Team and volunteers for Archive Team work.<br />
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== archiveteam.org ==<br />
=== [http://wiki.archiveteam.org wiki.archiveteam.org] ===<br />
Hosts the Archive Team wiki. This documents information about the projects and sites.<br />
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=== [http://www.archiveteam.org www.archiveteam.org] ===<br />
redirects to the Archive Team wiki.<br />
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=== [http://internetarchive.archiveteam.org internetarchive.archiveteam.org] ===<br />
Hosts an unofficial wiki for the [[Internet Archive]] and related projects.<br />
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=== [http://iabak.archiveteam.org iabak.archiveteam.org] ===<br />
Hosts the tracker for the [[IA.BAK]] project.<br />
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=== [http://tracker.archiveteam.org tracker.archiveteam.org] ===<br />
Contains the trackers for many [[warrior projects]].<br />
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=== [http://fileformats.archiveteam.org fileformats.archiveteam.org] ===<br />
Hosts a wiki documenting file formats.<br />
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=== [http://justsolve.archiveteam.org justsolve.archiveteam.org] ===<br />
Redirects to the fileformats wiki.<br />
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=== [http://warriorhq.archiveteam.org warriorhq.archiveteam.org] ===<br />
Shows the locations of trackers for projects.<br />
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== Misc ==<br />
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=== [http://transfer.archivete.am transfer.archivete.am] ===<br />
A file-sharing site running [https://github.com/dutchcoders/transfer.sh transfer.sh]. It can be used to run [[ArchiveBot]] on a large list of URLs by uploading a text document to it with a URL on each line. Files can be up to 500 megabytes and are automatically deleted after a day.<br />
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=== [http://atdash.meo.ws atdash.meo.ws] ===<br />
A Grafana instance hosted by [[User:Fusl|Fusl]] that shows an alternative tracker for projects.<br />
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=== [http://archive.fart.website archive.fart.website] ===<br />
Website by [[User:Chfoo|chfoo]] that allows you to browse [[ArchiveBot]] jobs and IRC from EFnet.<br />
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=== [http://hackint.logs.kiska.pw hackint.logs.kiska.pw] ===<br />
Hosts IRC logs for channels on Hackint.<br />
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=== [http://archivebot.com archivebot.com] ===<br />
Hosts a real-time interface for [[ArchiveBot]] jobs.<br />
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=== [http://control.archiveteam.net control.archiveteam.net] ===<br />
Hosts the same content as /pipelines on ArchiveBot domains.<br />
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=== [http://urlte.am urlte.am] ===<br />
shorturl for the [[URLTeam]] project.<br />
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=== [https://archiveteam.hu archiveteam.hu] ===<br />
A Hungarian website dedicated to ArchiveTeam-related information and services, run by user [[user:bzc6p|bzc6p]].<br />
* Introduction of ArchiveTeam to Hungarian readers.<br />
* The ''[https://archiveteam.hu/rszi RSZI]'' service for accessing archives of Hungarian image hosting services not even available in the Wayback Machine.<br />
* The ''[https://archiveteam.hu/lecsu Lecsű]'' service for requesting archival of YouTube videos. (Available in English, anyone can use it!)</div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Skyblog&diff=50550Skyblog2023-08-21T22:14:26Z<p>DigitalDragon: update project status</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| logo = skyrock_logo.jpg<br />
| title = Skyblog<br />
| image = Skyblog-screenshot.png<br />
| URL = [https://www.skyrock.com/blog/ Blogs - Skyrock.com]<br />
| project_status = {{offline}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{partiallysaved}}<br />
| archiving_type = DPoS<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/skyblog-grab skyblog-grab]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/skyblog/ skyblog]<br />
| irc = bowlofpetunias<br />
| data = {{IA collection|archiveteam_skyblog}}<br />
}}<br />
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Skyblog is a French blogging platform/social network hosted by the French radio station Skyrock. It announced on 16 June 2023<ref name="announcement">{{url|https://lequipe-skyrock.skyrock.com/3356709138-ICI-T-LIBRE.html}}</ref> that 'to comply with legislation on personal data' it would shut down on 21 August 2023<ref>{{url|https://static.skyrock.net/img/skyblog_eol.jpg}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://the-skyrock-team.skyrock.com/3356796874-posted-on-2023-06-22.html}}</ref>.<br />
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Anonymized data will supposedly be saved by the INA (French radio and television archive) and BNF (national library of France).<ref name="announcement" /> No provisions were made for exporting user data except some instructions on using general 'website downloading' software.<ref>{{url|https://lequipe-skyrock.skyrock.com/3356709252-Comment-sauvegarder-ton-blog.html}}</ref><br />
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== Site structure ==<br />
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Blog IDs appear to be sequential, with a maximum of ~124M. Blogs can be enumerated at endpoints such as <code><nowiki>https://www.skyrock.com/common/r/skynautes/card/<user-id></nowiki></code>, which resolves to <code>https://<username>.skyrock.com/profil/</code>. Each subdomain provides a <code>sitemap.xml</code> and <code>atom.xml</code>.<br />
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Individual posts are found at <code>https://<username>.skyrock.com/<post-id>-<post-slug>.html</code>. Post IDs appear to be sequential and globally unique. Post slugs are not required; an incorrect or absent slug will redirect to the canonical URL as long as the blog name is correct.<br />
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There is a URL shortener at <nowiki>http://sk.mu/</nowiki>. Its slugs for posts consist of the letter <code>a</code> followed by a base62-converted integer <code><user-id> × 10<sup>11</sup> + <post-id></code>, which is impractical to brute-force. For example:<br />
* a post with post ID 3356709138 published by a blog with blog ID 33265738 would have a slug <code>"a" + base62_convert("3326573803356709138")</code> → http://sk.mu/a3XJK5i0uTK2.<br />
* a post with post ID 15 published by a blog with blog ID 132030 would have a slug <code>"a" + base62_convert("13203000000000015")</code> → http://sk.mu/aYt8dzQD03.<br />
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There is [https://www.skyrock.com/developer/documentation/api/ an API].<br />
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== References ==<br />
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<references/></div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=WikiTeam&diff=50529WikiTeam2023-08-20T02:12:54Z<p>DigitalDragon: /* Tools and source code */ Add footnote about WikiBot</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = WikiTeam XML<br />
| image = Wikiteam.jpg<br />
| description = WikiTeam, we preserve wikis<br />
| project_status = {{specialcase}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{inprogress}} (manual)<br />
| archiving_type = other<br />
| source = [https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam WikiTeam GitHub]<br />
| irc = wikiteam<br />
}}<br />
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{{Infobox project<br />
| title = WikiBot<br />
| image = Dummy.png<br />
| description = IRC bot run by [[User:DigitalDragon|DigitalDragon]] using WikiTeam3 tools<br />
| project_status = {{specialcase}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{inprogress}} (manual)<br />
| archiving_type = other<br />
| source = [https://github.com/DigitalDwagon/WikiBot WikiBot GitHub]<br />
| irc = wikibot<br />
}}<br />
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'''WikiTeam''' software is a set of tools for archiving wikis. They work on [[MediaWiki]] wikis, but we want to expand to other wiki engines. As of 2019, WikiTeam has preserved more than 250,000 wikis.<br />
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You can check [https://archive.org/details/wikiteam our collection] at [[Internet Archive]], the [https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam source code] on [[GitHub]] and some [https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Websites/WikiTeam lists of wikis by status] on [[WikiApiary]]. There's also a [https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Category:Website_not_archived list] of not yet archived wikis on WikiApiary.<br />
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There are two completely separate projects under the umbrella of '''WikiTeam''':<br />
* The archival of the wikis in the form of XML dumps. This is what most of this page is about.<br />
* The archival of external links found in wikis to WARCs. See the [[#Links warrior project|Links warrior project]] section.<br />
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The archival of the wikis themselves to WARCs is also desirable but has not been attempted yet.<br />
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== Current status ==<br />
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The total number of MediaWiki wikis is unknown, but some estimates exist.<br />
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According to [[WikiApiary]], which is the most updated database, there are 21,139 independent wikis (1,718 are semantic) and 4,819 in wikifarms as of 2018-08-02.<ref>[https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Websites Websites] - WikiApiary</ref> But it doesn't include 400,000+ [[Wikia]] wikis, and the independent list coverage can be improved for sure.<br />
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According to Pavlo's list generated in December 2008, there are 20,000 wikis.<ref>[http://cs.brown.edu/~pavlo/mediawiki/ Pavlo's list of wikis] ([http://www.cs.brown.edu/~pavlo/mediawiki/mediawikis.csv mediawiki.csv]) ([https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/mediawikis_pavlo.csv backup])</ref> This list was imported into WikiApiary.<br />
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According to [[WikiIndex]], there are 20,698 wikis.<ref>[http://wikiindex.org/Special:Statistics WikiIndex Statistics]</ref> The URLs in this project were added to WikiApiary in the past too.<br />
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A number of [[#Wikifarms|wikifarms]] have vanished and about 180 are still online.<ref>[https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Farm:Farms Wikifarms]</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_hosting_services Comparison of wiki hosting services]</ref><ref>[http://wikiindex.org/Category:WikiFarm Category:WikiFarm]</ref><br />
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Most wikis are small, containing about 100 pages or less, but there are some very large wikis:<ref>[http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_wikis List of largest wikis]</ref><ref>[http://s23.org/wikistats/largest_html.php?th=15000&lines=500 List of largest wikis in the world]</ref><br />
* By '''number of pages''': Wikimedia Commons (77 million), Wikidata (72 million), English Wikipedia (49 million), DailyWeeKee (35 million), WikiBusiness (22 million).<br />
* By '''number of files''': Wikimedia Commons (57 million), English Wikipedia (800,000).<br />
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The oldest dumps are probably some 2001 dumps of Wikipedia when it used UseModWiki.<ref>[https://dumps.wikimedia.org/archive/ Wikimedia Downloads Historical Archives]</ref><ref>[http://dumps.wikimedia.org/nostalgiawiki Dump] of [http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/ Nostalgia], an ancient version of Wikipedia from 2001</ref><br />
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As of 2019, our collection at Internet Archive holds dumps for 250,000 wikis (including independent, wikifarm wikis, some packages of wikis and Wiki[pm]edia).<ref>[https://archive.org/details/wikiteam WikiTeam collection] at Internet Archive</ref><br />
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== Wikifarms ==<br />
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There are also wikifarms with hundreds of wikis. Here we only create pages for those we have some special information about that we don't want to lose (like archiving history and tips). For a full list, please use WikiApiary [https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Farm:Main_Page wikifarms main page].<br />
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Before backing up a wikifarm, try to update the list of wikis for it. There are [https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/tree/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki Python scripts to generate those lists] for many wikifarms.<br />
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{| class="wikitable sortable plainlinks" style="text-align: center;"<br />
! width=140px | Wikifarm !! width=80px | Wikis !! Status !! width=80px | Dumps !! Comments<br />
|-<br />
| [[Battlestar Wiki]] ([http://battlestarwiki.org site]) || data-sort-value=4 | 4<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/battlestarwiki.org battlestarwiki.org - list of wikis]</ref> || {{green|Online}} || data-sort-value=3 | 3<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=identifier%3Awiki%2Abattlestarwikiorg%2A battlestarwikiorg - dumps]</ref> || Last dumped Mar/Apr 2022, [https://fr.battlestarwiki.ddns.net/ fr.battlestarwiki.ddns.net] shows wrong XML when dumping<br />
|-<br />
| [[BluWiki]] ([http://wayback.archive.org/web/20090301060338/http://bluwiki.com/go/Main_Page site]) || data-sort-value=0 | Unknown || {{red|Offline}} || data-sort-value=24 | 24<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=bluwiki%20subject%3Awikiteam bluwiki - dumps]</ref> || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Communpedia]] ([https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Communpedia_%28ru%29 site]) || data-sort-value=1 | 1 || {{orange|Unstable}} || data-sort-value=6 | 6<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Comunpedia%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Communpedia%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22kommynistru%22 communpedia - dumps]</ref> || Appears to no longer use MediaWiki.<br />
|-<br />
| [[EditThis]] ([http://editthis.info site]) || data-sort-value=1357 | 1,357<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/editthis.info editthis.info - list of wikis]</ref> || {{orange|Unstable}} || data-sort-value=1297 | 1,297 WikiDump<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=editthisinfo%20subject%3Awikiteam editthis.info - dumps]</ref><br />1,357 WARC<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3Aeditthis.info editthis.info warcarchives]</ref> || Most dumps were done in 2014. This wikifarm is not well covered in WikiApiary.<ref>[https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Farm:EditThis Farm:EditThis]</ref> Uses MediaWiki 1.15.1 and therefore is not supported by dumpgenerator.py<ref>[https://editthis.info/1337/Special:Version editthis.info/1337 - Special:Version]</ref> WARC dumps were done in July 2022.<br />
|-<br />
| [[elwiki.com]] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070917110429/http://www.elwiki.com/ site]) || data-sort-value=0 | Unknown<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/elwiki.com elwiki.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{red|Offline}} || data-sort-value=0 | None<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=elwiki%20subject%3Awikiteam elwiki.com - dumps]</ref> || Last seen online in 2008.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080221125135/http://www.elwiki.com/ We're sorry about the downtime we've been having lately]</ref> There is no dumps, presumably lost. Perhaps [https://web.archive.org/web/form-submit.jsp?type=prefixquery&url=http://elwiki.com/ some pages] are in the Wayback Machine.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Fandom]] ([http://www.fandom.com site]) || data-sort-value=261146 | 261,146<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/fandom.com fandom.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{green|Online}} || data-sort-value=300000 | 300,000+ || [http://community.fandom.com/wiki/Help:Database_download Help:Database download], [https://github.com/Wikia/app/tree/dev/extensions/wikia/WikiFactory/Dumps Their dumping code]<br />
|-<br />
| [[Miraheze]] ([https://meta.miraheze.org site]) || data-sort-value=6438 | 6,438<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/miraheze.org miraheze.org - list of wikis]</ref> || {{green|Online}} || data-sort-value=2200 | ~2,200<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=miraheze%20subject%3Awikiteam miraheze - dumps]</ref> || Non-profit. Dumps were made in September 2016. Later in 2019 more dumps were uploaded.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Neoseeker.com]] ([https://neowiki.neoseeker.com site])|| data-sort-value=183 | 183<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/neoseeker.com neoseeker.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{green|Online}} || data-sort-value=583 |583<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=identifier%3Awiki%2Aneoseekercom%2A neoseeker.com - dumps]</ref> || Last dumped in June 2022, [https://sandbox.neoseeker.com/ sandbox.neoseeker.com] is a broken wiki<br />
|-<br />
| [[Orain]] ([https://meta.orain.org site]) || data-sort-value=425 | 425<ref>[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/orain.org orain.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{red|Offline}} || data-sort-value=380 |380<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=orain%20subject%3Awikiteam orain - dumps]</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/wikifarm-orain.org-20130824 Orain wikifarm dump (August 2013)]</ref> || Last seen online in September 2015. Dumps were made in August 2013, January 2014 and August 2015.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Referata]] ([http://www.referata.com site]) || data-sort-value=156 | 156<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/referata.com referata.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{orange|Unstable}} || data-sort-value=80 | ~80<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=referata%20subject%3Awikiteam referata.com - dumps]</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/referata.com-20111204 Referata wikifarm dump 20111204]</ref><ref>[https://archive.org/details/wikifarm-referata.com-20130824 Referata wikifarm dump (August 2013)]</ref> || Check why there are dozens of wikis without dump.<br />
|-<br />
| [[ScribbleWiki]] ([http://scribblewiki.com site]) || data-sort-value=119 | 119<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/scribblewiki.com scribblewiki.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{red|Offline}} || data-sort-value=0 | None<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=scribblewiki%20subject%3Awikiteam scribblewiki.com - dumps]</ref> || Last seen online in 2008.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080404093502/http://scribblewiki.com/main.php What is ScribbleWiki?]</ref> There is no dumps, presumably lost. Perhaps [https://web.archive.org/web/form-submit.jsp?type=prefixquery&url=http://scribblewiki.com/ some pages] are in the Wayback Machine.<br />
|-<br />
| [[ShoutWiki]] ([http://www.shoutwiki.com site]) || data-sort-value=2173 | 2,173<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/shoutwiki.com shoutwiki.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{green|Online}} || data-sort-value=1300 | ~3,400<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=identifier%3Awiki-%2Ashoutwikicom%2A%20subject%3Awikiteam shoutwiki.com - dumps]</ref><ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/shoutwiki.com ShoutWiki wikifarm dump]</ref> || Last dumped in June 2022. ~100 wikis cannot be archived because they are private.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Sourceforge]] || data-sort-value=0 | Unknown || {{green|Online}} || data-sort-value=315 | 315<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=sourceforge%20subject%3Awikiteam sourceforge - dumps]</ref> || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Telepedia]] ([https://meta.telepedia.net/wiki/Telepedia_Meta_Wiki site]) || data-sort-value=3267 | 37 || {{green|Online}} || data-sort-value=2 | 2 || <br />
|-<br />
| [[TropicalWikis]] ([http://tropicalwikis.com site]) || data-sort-value=187 | 187<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/tropicalwikis.com tropicalwikis.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{red|Offline}} || data-sort-value=152 | 152<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=tropicalwikis%20subject%3Awikiteam tropicalwikis.com - dumps]</ref> || Killed off in November 2013. Allegedly pending move to [[Orain]] (which became offline too). Data from February 2013 and earlier saved.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Wik.is]] ([http://wik.is site]) || data-sort-value=0 | Unknown || {{red|Offline}} || data-sort-value=0 | Unknown || Non-MediaWiki.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Wiki-Site]] ([http://www.wiki-site.com site]) || data-sort-value=2659 | 2,659<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/wiki-site.com wiki-site.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{green|Online}} || data-sort-value=367 | 367 || No uploaded dumps yet.<br />
|-<br />
| [[WikiHub]] ([http://wikihub.ssu.lt site]) || data-sort-value=0 | Unknown || {{red|Offline}} || data-sort-value=7 | 7<ref>[https://archive.org/details/wikifarm-wikihub.ssu.lt-20131110 wikihub - dumps]</ref> || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Wiki.Wiki]] ([https://wiki.wiki site]) || data-sort-value=100 | 100<ref>[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/wiki.wiki wiki.wiki - list of wikis]</ref> || {{red|Offline}} || data-sort-value=0 | Unknown || Last seen online in 2017.<br />
|-<br />
| [[WikiTide]] ([https://meta.wikitide.com site]) || data-sort-value=96 | 96<ref>[https://meta.wikitide.com/wiki/WikiTide - list of wikis]</ref> || {{green|Online}} || data-sort-value=0 | None || Non-profit. Formed by group of ex-[[Miraheze]] volunteers, some who had also volunteered at [[Orain]] and [[TropicalWikis]].<br />
|-<br />
| [[Wikkii]] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140621054654/http://wikkii.com/wiki/Free_Wiki_Hosting site]) || data-sort-value=3267 | 3,267 || {{red|Offline}} || data-sort-value=1300 | 1,300<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=wikkii%20subject%3Awikiteam wikki.com - dumps]</ref> || <br />
|-<br />
| [[YourWiki.net]] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20100124003107/http://www.yourwiki.net/wiki/YourWiki site]) || data-sort-value=0 | Unknown || {{red|Offline}} || data-sort-value=0 | Unknown || <br />
|}<br />
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== Wikis to archive ==<br />
<br />
Please [https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Special:FormEdit/Website add a wiki to WikiApiary] if you want someone to archive it sooner or later; or tell us on IRC ({{IRC|wikiteam}}) if it's particularly urgent. Remember that there are thousands of wikis we don't even know about yet.<br />
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[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/wiki/Tutorial You can help] downloading wikis yourself. If you don't know where to start, pick a [https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Category:Website_not_archived wiki which was not archived yet] from the lists on WikiApiary. Also, you can edit those pages to link existing dumps! You'll help others focus their work.<br />
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Examples of huge wikis:<br />
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* '''[[Wikipedia]]''' - arguably the largest and one of the oldest wikis on the planet. It offers public backups (also for sister projects): https://dumps.wikimedia.org<br />
** They have some mirrors but not many.<br />
** The transfer of the dumps to the Internet Archive is automated and is currently managed by [[User:Hydriz|Hydriz]].<br />
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* '''[[Wikimedia Commons]]''' - a wiki of media files available for free usage. It offers public backups: https://dumps.wikimedia.org<br />
** But there is no image dump available, only the image descriptions<br />
** So we made it! http://archive.org/details/wikimediacommons<br />
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* '''[[Wikia]]''' - a website that allows the creation and hosting of wikis. Doesn't make regular backups.<br />
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We're trying to decide which [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/wikiteam-discuss/TxzfrkN4ohA other wiki engines] to work on: suggestions needed!<br />
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== Tools and source code ==<br />
=== Official WikiTeam tools ===<br />
* [https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam WikiTeam in GitHub]<br />
* '''[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/master/dumpgenerator.py dumpgenerator.py] to download MediaWiki wikis:''' <tt>python dumpgenerator.py --api=https://www.archiveteam.org/api.php --xml --images</tt><br />
* [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/master/wikipediadownloader.py wikipediadownloader.py] to download Wikipedia dumps from download.wikimedia.org: <tt>python wikipediadownloader.py</tt><br />
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=== Other ===<br />
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20150403081903/http://dl.dropbox.com/u/63233/Wikitravel/Source%20Code%20and%20tools/Source%20Code%20and%20tools.7z Scripts of a guy who saved Wikitravel]<br />
* [http://www.communitywiki.org/en/BackupThisWiki OddMuseWiki backup]<br />
* UseModWiki: use wget/curl and [http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?WikiPatches/RawMode raw mode] (might have a different URL scheme, like [http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/action=browse&id=TheTippingPoint&raw=1 this])<br />
** Some wikis: [[UseMod:SiteList]]<br />
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=== MediaWiki Scraper ===<br />
The MediaWiki Client Tools' [https://github.com/mediawiki-client-tools/mediawiki-scraper MediaWiki Scraper] dumpgenerator script, a [[w:Python (programming language)|Python]] 3.x port of the [https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam WikiTeam] Python 2.7 dumpgenerator.py script.<br />
It is run from the command-line in a terminal.<br />
<br />
The XML dump can include full or only most recent page history.<br />
The images dump will contain all file types with associated descriptions.<br />
The <code>siteinfo.json</code> and <code>SpecialVersion.html</code> files will contain information about wiki features such as the installed extensions and skins.<br />
User account information won't be preserved.<br />
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Full instructions are at the MediaWiki Client Tools' [https://github.com/mediawiki-client-tools/mediawiki-scraper MediaWiki Scraper] GitHub repository.<br />
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* WikiBot is an IRC bot designed to manage running MediaWiki Scraper and [[DokuWiki]] grabs. {{IRC|wikibot}}<br />
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== Wiki dumps ==<br />
<br />
Most of our dumps are in the [http://www.archive.org/details/wikiteam wikiteam collection at the Internet Archive]. If you want an item to land there, just upload it in "opensource" collection and remember the "WikiTeam" keyword, it will be moved at some point. When you've uploaded enough wikis, you'll probably be made a collection admin to save others the effort to move your stuff.<br />
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For a manually curated list, [https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/wiki/Available-Backups visit the download section] on GitHub.<br />
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There is another site of MediaWiki dumps located [http://mirrors.sdboyd56.com/WikiTeam/index.html here] on [http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User:Sdboyd Scott's] website.<br />
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=== Tips ===<br />
Some tips follow.<br />
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Before archiving or asking for archiving, check that the wiki is suitable to be archived:<br />
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* Check the size of the wiki, very large wikis might overflow disk or be hard to archive; visit the <code>Special:SpecialPages</code> page and click on the <code>Special:MediaStatistics</code> (or <code>Special:ListFiles</code> for older wikis) and <code>Special:Statistics</code> pages. You can also directly enter those pages in the search bar or edit the URL. For non-English wikis, they will redirect to the correct localized title.<br />
* Check the date the last upload of the wiki you are after, either [https://archive.org/search?query=originalurl%3A*examplewikiname* in the browser], or on the command-line using the [https://github.com/jjjake/internetarchive ia] tool:<br />
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<pre><br />
ia search originalurl:*examplewikiname* | jq -r .identifier | xargs ia metadata | jq -r '.metadata.addeddate, .metadata.originalurl'<br />
</pre><br />
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Don't issue commands you don't understand, especially batch commands which use loops or find and xargs, unless you're ready to lose all the data you got.<br />
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When downloading Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons dumps, pages-meta-history.xml.7z and pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 are the same, but 7z is usually smaller (better compress ratio), so use 7z.<br />
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To download a mass of wikis with N parallel threads, just <code>split</code> your full <code>$list</code> in N chunks, then start N instances of <code>launcher.py</code> ([https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/wiki/Tutorial#Download_a_list_of_wikis tutorial]), one for each list<br />
* If you want to upload dumps as they're ready and clean up your storage: at the same time, in a separate window or screen, run a loop of the kind <code>while true; do ./uploader.py $list --prune-directories --prune-wikidump; sleep 12h; done;</code> (the <code>sleep</code> ensure each run has something to do).<br />
* If you're using --xmlrevisions, dumpgenerator.py will use much less memory because it won't get giant blobs of XML from Special:Export when a big page has a thousand revisions or more. You can then afford to run 100 instances of launcher.py/dumpgenerator.py with just 2 cores and 8 GiB of RAM. Watch your ulimit for the number of files, individual and total memory: 7z may consume up to 5 GiB of RAM for the biggest dumps (over 10 GiB). CPU usage tends to be lower at the beginning (launcher.py is not yet launching any 7z task because few dumps have completed) and the disk is usually hit harder at a beginning of a resume (launcher.py needs to scan the directories multiple times and dumpgeneratory.py needs to read the lists of titles, XML and image directories). Before increasing concurrency, make sure you have enough resources for those stressful times, not just for the easy ride at the beginning of the dump.<br />
* If you want to go advanced and run really ''many'' instances, use <code>tmux</code>[http://blog.hawkhost.com/2010/07/02/tmux-%E2%80%93-the-terminal-multiplexer-part-2/]! Use [https://serverfault.com/a/814089/203035 tmux new-window] to launch several instances in the same session. Every now and then, attach to the tmux session and look (<code>ctrl-b f</code>) for windows stuck on "is wrong", "is slow" or "......" loops, or which are inactive[http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/78093/how-can-i-make-tmux-monitor-a-window-for-inactivity]. Even with a couple cores you can run a hundred instances, just make sure to have enough disk space for the occasional huge ones (tens of GB).<br />
* If you get closer to a 1000 instances of launcher.py, it may be too much for tmux to handle. You're probably not actually going to look at the output of hundreds of windows anyway. So just run everything in the background with xargs, monitor the crashes and then check the directories manually.<pre>split -a 4 -d -l 10 wikistoarchive.txt wt_ ; ls -1 wt_* | xargs -n1 -I§ -P300 sh -c "python launcher.py § 2>&1 > /dev/null ; "</pre><br />
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If you have many wikidump directories, some of the following commands may be useful. Sometimes a dump is complete but the 7z is missing or broken (e.g. for lack of memory), or you're running low on disk and you can't wait for uploader.py to verify the uploads one by one. A hint of a complete dump is the presence of siteinfo.json: that means dumpgenerator thought the XML was done, but an image download may still be running.<br />
* Check errors in 7z files. It's better to avoid running uploader.py on many archives if you're not sure they're fine (for instance if you've not monitored crashes of dumpgenerator.py/launcher.py). It's much harder for other people to download the 7z files from archive.org and check them after they've been uploaded, and the presence of an archive may discourage someone else from making a new one even if the archive is not actually usable. <pre>find -maxdepth 1 -type f -name "*7z" | xargs -n1 -P4 -I§ sh -c "7z l § 2>&1 | grep ^ERROR "</pre><br />
* Delete directories corresponding to a 7z file.<pre>find -maxdepth 1 -name "*wikidump.7z" | cut -d/ -f2 | sed 's,.7z,,g' | xargs -P8 rm -rf</pre><br />
* If launcher.py has failed to create 7z files due to running low on resources, you may make them manually with a loop and lower compression level.<pre>find -maxdepth 1 -name siteinfo.json | cut -d/ -f2 |sed 's,wikidump,,g' | xargs -n1 -P6 -I§ sh -c "cd §wikidump/ ; 7za a -ms=off -mx=3 ../§history.xml.7z §history.xml §titles.txt errors.log index.html config.txt siteinfo.json Special:Version.html ; ../§history.xml.7z ../§wikidump.7z ; 7za a -mx=1 ../§wikidump.7z images/ §images.txt ; "</pre><br />
* Find the biggest ongoing wikidump directories: when you don't have something as nice as [https://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu ncdu], something simple may suffice, like <code>du -shc * | grep G</code> or <code>find -maxdepth 2 -type f -name "*xml" -size +1G</code>.<br />
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=== BitTorrent downloads ===<br />
You can download and seed the torrents from the archive.org collection. Every item has a "Torrent" link.<br />
<br />
=== Old mirrors ===<br />
<span class="plainlinks"><br />
# [https://sourceforge.net/projects/wikiteam/files/ Sourceforge] (also mirrored to another 26 mirrors)<br />
# [http://www.archive.org/details/WikiTeamMirror Internet Archive] ([http://ia700705.us.archive.org/16/items/WikiTeamMirror/ direct link] to directory)<br />
</span><br />
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=== Recursive ===<br />
<br />
We also have dumps for our coordination wikis:<br />
* [[ArchiveTeam wiki]] ([https://archive.org/details/wiki-archiveteamorg 2014-03-26])<br />
* [[WikiApiary]] ([https://archive.org/details/wiki-wikiapiarycom_w 2015-03-25])<br />
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== Restoring wikis ==<br />
<br />
Anyone can restore a wiki using its XML dump and images.<br />
<br />
Wikis.cc is [https://www.wikis.cc/wiki/Wikis_recuperados restoring some sites].<br />
<br />
== Links warrior project ==<br />
{{Infobox project<br />
| title = WikiTeam links<br />
| image = Wikiteam.jpg<br />
| description = We preserve external links used in wikis<br />
| project_status = {{specialcase}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{inprogress}} (dormant since 2017)<br />
| source = [https://github.com/Archiveteam/wikis-grab wikis-grab]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/wikis/ wikis]<br />
| irc = wikiteam<br />
}}<br />
<br />
There is a (currently dormant) warrior project to archive external links used in wikis. The target format for this archival is [[WARC]]. The data from this project is uploaded to [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_wiki this collection] on the Internet Archive.<br />
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== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
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== External links ==<br />
* [https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam WikiTeam] on GitHub<br />
* [http://wikiindex.org WikiIndex] - an index of wikis<br />
* [http://s23.org/wikistats/ S23 wikistats] - stats for over 40,000 wikis<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_farms Comparison of wikifarms]<br />
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Wikipedia_Archive Wikipedia Archive]<br />
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{{wikis}}<br />
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[[Category:Archive Team]]<br />
[[Category:Wikis| ]]</div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Collection_statuses&diff=50466Collection statuses2023-08-12T06:48:09Z<p>DigitalDragon: mark historical</p>
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<div>{{historical}}<br />
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A list of collection with WARC files fro past projects will be posted here. The list will be checked if everything is functioning properly, without any errors.<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Collection<br />
! Status<br />
! Packs checked<br />
! Status<br />
! Url checked<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_g4tv_forums<br />
| <br />
| <br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="10" | hyves<br />
| rowspan="10" | NOT WORKING<br />
| archiveteam_hyves_20131201214204<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20131201211848/http://www.hyves.nl/school/1203543/De_Einder/wiewatwaar/<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_hyves_20131128190856<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20131128004604/http://lewin.hyves.nl/index.php?module=Utility&action=showMemberDetails&k=oC3MJcA9moX5Ty8wSGt-eQ==&memberId=ca757866<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_hyves_20131128181253<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20131129000241/http://voetbal-2009-125273.hyves.nl/events/<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_hyves_20131128085439<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20131128143922/http://jacohoek.hyves.nl/fotos/<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_hyves_20131126141912<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20131126200620/http://qmil.hyves.nl/index.php?module=Utility&action=showMemberDetails&k=cHJRY3P9u3QJwE8zfhLU8g==&memberId=99a3b066<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_hyves_20131124173426<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20131124232308/http://milan-armando.hyves.nl/getikt/<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_hyves_20131123223747<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20131124041644/http://sjefkegerrist.hyves.nl/polls/<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_hyves_20131122224420<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20131123043620/http://lauwie--kusje.hyves.nl/index.php?module=Utility&action=showMemberDetails&k=R9foxeFWoBlZCeVYP8rL-w==&memberId=50d2d94c<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_hyves_20131121124221<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20131121180336/http://besties13.hyves.nl/blog/<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_hyves_20131120050247<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20131117082631/http://baaaaaaaaaaaaaart.hyves.nl/album/22244760/Iedereen/7ARUfwgu/?pageid=3APXQVH4LX44OSWO4<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_antecedents<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| googlegroups-part2<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_punchfork<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| rowspan="10" | archiveteam_myopera<br />
| rowspan="10" | WORKING/NOT WORKING<br />
| archiveteam_myopera_20140305001427<br />
| WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20140225195144/http://my.opera.com/sihyuka/blog/?id=3338515<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_myopera_20140304212427<br />
| WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20140225192839/http://my.opera.com/sibibi/albums/showpic.dml?album=5383352&picture=80958442<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_myopera_20140304193025<br />
| WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20140301211006/http://my.opera.com/tayaraegugu/favorites/<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_myopera_20140304015228<br />
| WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20140227153434/http://my.opera.com/shyamprabahar/about/<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_myopera_20140228022054<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20140228045932/http://my.opera.com/leoncita2001/links/<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_myopera_20140223040938<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20140223082452/http://my.opera.com/afcn14/albums/showpic.dml?album=585924&picture=8035383<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_myopera_20140221002410<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20140219060839/http://my.opera.com/hgjkfdhgjkfdghfkj/blog/?id=110978212<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_myopera_20140220231436<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20140220165724/http://my.opera.com/jasonlwebb/about/<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_myopera_20140218011331<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20140217235211/http://my.opera.com/guitarlessons/about/<br />
|-<br />
| archiveteam_myopera_20140217210824<br />
| NOT WORKING<br />
| https://web.archive.org/web/20140217170100/http://my.opera.com/arishinzdichatz/favorites/<br />
|}<br />
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{{Navigation box}}</div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Hidden_Palace&diff=50464Hidden Palace2023-08-12T12:36:36Z<p>DigitalDragon: The Hidden Palace felt like it deserved it's own page.</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| logo = hiddenpalace-logo.jpeg<br />
| image = hiddenpalace-screenshot.jpeg<br />
| description = A screenshot of the home page taken on 7 August 2023.<br />
| URL = https://hiddenpalace.org<br />
| project_status = {{online}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{nosavedyet}}<br />
}}<br />
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The Hidden Palace is a wiki dedicated to "the preservation of video game development media." As of August 2023, it has more than 5 TB of prototypes and other related media, mostly in the form of compressed 7-Zip files. [https://archive.org/details/hiddenpalace Some have been backed up to the Internet Archive], but the collection seems to be incomplete, and many files remain only on the Hidden Palace.<br />
<br />
== Archival ==<br />
<br />
[https://archive.org/details/wiki-hiddenpalaceorg_w-20230804-wikidump XML only WikiBot dump from August 2023]</div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=File:Hiddenpalace-logo.jpeg&diff=50462File:Hiddenpalace-logo.jpeg2023-08-08T04:09:01Z<p>DigitalDragon: </p>
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<div></div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=File:Hiddenpalace-screenshot.jpeg&diff=50461File:Hiddenpalace-screenshot.jpeg2023-08-08T04:04:27Z<p>DigitalDragon: </p>
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<div></div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Porn&diff=50322Porn2023-08-01T06:35:35Z<p>DigitalDragon: grammar cleanup</p>
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<div>ArchiveTeam treats porn like any other material, namely:<br />
* We try not to judge whether something is historically important<br />
* For storage reasons (mostly the IA's) we need to be conservative when saving videos<br />
* Because we are not separate from society, and because we have few resources to spare for conflict, sometimes we need to limit what we gather, make public, or make clearly public<br />
<br />
=== Times we Saved Porn === <br />
* https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Eroshare<br />
* Xtube ([https://hackint.logs.kiska.pw/archiveteam-bs/20210708#c294471] [http://tracker.archiveteam.org/xtube/])<br />
* Tons of furry, anime, etc. sites<br />
<br />
=== Internet Archive ===<br />
Uploading porn to the [[Internet Archive]] may cause your account to be locked or banned, and/or your items to be removed. Lots of porn is also copyrighted and may lead to takedown notices. However, some adult content does exist on the IA:<br />
* https://archive.org/details/no-preview<br />
* https://archive.org/details/porn?sort=-addeddate<br />
* https://archive.org/details/adultcomics<br />
* https://archive.org/details/adultmanga<br />
* https://archive.org/details/manga_dojinshi<br />
* https://archive.org/details/mensmagazines_post70s<br />
* https://archive.org/details/mensmagazines<br />
* https://archive.org/details/adultcdroms</div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=RapidShare&diff=50256RapidShare2023-07-18T02:21:22Z<p>DigitalDragon: archiveteam-fire collection for RapidShare data</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = RapidShare<br />
| logo = RapidShare-logo.png<br />
| image = RapidShare-homepage.png<br />
| URL = https://www.rapidshare.com<br />
| project_status = {{closed}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{partiallysaved}}<br />
| archiving_type = DPoS<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/rapidshare-discovery rapidshare-discovery], [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/rapidshare-grab rapidshare-grab]<br />
| tracker = [http://tracker.archiveteam.org/rapidsharedisco/ rapidsharedisco], [http://tracker.archiveteam.org/rapidshare/ rapidshare]<br />
| irc = rapidscare<br />
| irc_network = EFnet<br />
| irc_abandoned = true<br />
| data = {{IA collection|archiveteam-fire}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
RapidShare is a file sharing website, which shut down on March 31, 2015.<br />
<br />
== Shutdown notice ==<br />
<h3>Notice</h3><br />
<p>Dear RapidShare Customers </p><br />
<br />
<p>Kindly note that RapidShare will stop the active service on March 31st, 2015. Extensions of STANDARD PLUS and PREMIUM will be possible until February 28th, 2015. </p><br />
<br />
<p>We strongly recommend all customers to secure their data. After March 31st, 2015 all accounts will no longer be accessible and will be deleted automatically. </p><br />
<p>If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to send us an e-mail to support@rapidshare.com</p><br />
<br />
<p>Thank you for many years of trust. </p><br />
<p>Your RapidShare Team</p><br />
<br />
== Site structure ==<br />
*https://rapidshare.com/files/251393042/Google_Earth_pro_5.0.1337.rar (redirects to url below which then downloads the file)<br />
**https://rs602p2.rapidshare.com/cgi-bin/rsapi.cgi?sub=download&fileid=251393042&filename=Google_Earth_pro_5.0.1337.rar<br />
<br />
=== Discovery ideas ===<br />
*Try scraping [http://rapid-search-engine.com rapid-search-engine.com] for download links or ask its owners for the database '''In progress'''<br />
*Get a list of valid download links [http://www.reddit.com/domain/rapidshare.com from reddit.] '''Done'''<br />
*Scrape Google with the keyword "intext:rapidshare.com/files".<br />
*Scrape URLs from the Wayback Machine. '''In progress'''<br />
*Search in the expanded URLs derived from URLTeam? '''URLs have been grabbed from the torrent, URLTeam 2 results haven't been searched yet'''<br />
<br />
== Archives ==<br />
Started March 25, 2015, finished March 31, 2015, 186 GB saved.<br />
<br />
{{navigation box}}</div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Smack_Jeeves&diff=50255Smack Jeeves2023-07-18T02:37:36Z<p>DigitalDragon: add archiveteam_smackjeeves collection</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Smack Jeeves<br />
| logo = SmackJeeves logo.png<br />
| image = SmackJeeves - 12-26-20.png<br />
| url = https://www.smackjeeves.com/<br />
| project_status = {{offline}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{saved}}<br />
| archiving_type = DPoS<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/smackjeeves-grab smackjeeves-grab]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/smackjeeves/ smackjeeves]<br />
| data = {{IA collection|archiveteam_smackjeeves}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Smack Jeeves''' is a host of webcomics which has been around on the internet since around mid-2005, though in recent years it has been dwarfed in popularity from competing sites like [[WEBTOON]].<br />
<br />
== Shutdown ==<br />
<br />
Smack Jeeves announced on November 1st, 2020 that it was going to throw in the towel at the end of the year, and encouraged its users to publish their works on [[Pocket Comics]] instead.<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
<p>'''{{url|1=https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36|2=Site Update}}'''</p><br />
<br />
<p>We have made the difficult decision to close Smack Jeeves at the end of the year. The site will be run until December 31st 2020. An option to download your archives has been added to the Comic Management section.</p><br />
<br />
<p>If you are interested in publishing your work on Pocket Comics, please contact us at dl_global_inquiry@nhn-comico.com.</p><br />
<br />
<p>Thank you for sharing your work and building a welcoming community for artists.</p><br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
After Smack Jeeves shut down on December 31st, 2020, it redirected visitors to the Pocket Comics website for a short period of time before the domain itself became inaccessible.<br />
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{{Navigation box}}</div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Your_Shot&diff=50245Your Shot2023-07-17T08:44:28Z<p>DigitalDragon: add archiveteam_yourshot for data</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = yourshot<br />
| image = Yourshot-logo.png<br />
| URL = https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/<br />
| project_status = {{offline}}<br />
| irc = gotshot<br />
| irc_abandoned = true<br />
| tracker = http://tracker.archiveteam.org/yourshot/#show-all<br />
| source = http://github.com/archiveteam/yourshot-grab<br />
| archiving_status = {{partiallysaved}}<br />
| archiving_type = DPoS<br />
| data = {{IA collection|archiveteam_yourshot}}<br />
}}<br />
<br />
'''Your Shot''' was a user contributed photo site run by National Geographic Magazine.<br />
As part of an acquisition of Fox, Disney decided to shutter it with the last date of access on Oct 31, 2019.<br />
<br />
Search returns a growing 10,254,953 Results but is believed to be accurate.<br />
Latest image ID's are 14240034, implies 4million deleted.<br />
<br />
=== Page types ===<br />
Search: Date, Location, Keyword<br />
* https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/?start_date=2019-08-01&end_date=2019-08-01&sort_by=-publication_date<br />
* https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/?end_date=2019-09-28&location=los%20angeles&sort_by=-publication_date<br />
* https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/?end_date=2019-09-28&keywords=cats&sort_by=-publication_date<br />
Tags / Category <br />
* https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/tags/cats/<br />
* https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/categories/travel/<br />
Photo Detail<br />
* https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/photos/5356403/<br />
User Profile<br />
* https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/profile/254418/<br />
<br />
Need to find:<br />
* Original un-resized images<br />
<br />
=== More content types ===<br />
Any 404 page lists additional content that will need further examination<br />
https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/404<br />
<br />
* Homepage<br />
* Assignments<br />
* Stories<br />
* Photos<br />
* Photographers<br />
* Discussions<br />
* Editor's Blog<br />
* Daily Dozen<br />
<br />
<br />
=== Warnings/Caveats/Bugs ===<br />
<br />
* Using a Firefox UA causes timeouts when using python scripts however a wget UA avoids this behavior<br />
* using too narrow/small of a window will cause a redirect to the mobile version<br />
https://m.yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/<br />
This will also occur during playback.<br />
* GPDR pop-up is thought to be triggered by JS checking a cookie or browser storage. A cookie named "NatGeo_Cookie_Consent__fallback" can be seen matching the response of<br />
https://api.nationalgeographic.com/consent-tracking<br />
{<br />
"country_code": "US",<br />
"consent_required": false<br />
} <br />
<br />
{<br />
"country_code": "AT",<br />
"consent_required": true<br />
} <br />
<br />
=== References ===<br />
* https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/discussions/discussion/2376/your-shot-platform-update/p1?new=1</div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ZippCast&diff=50244ZippCast2023-07-17T08:50:01Z<p>DigitalDragon: add zippcast collection and archiving type</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = ZippCast<br />
| URL = {{url|http://zippcast.com}}<br />
| description = Video sharing site<br />
| image = zippcast_screenshot.png<br />
| logo = zippcast_logo.png<br />
| project_status = {{offline}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{partiallysaved}}<br />
| archiving_type = DPoS<br />
| tracker = [http://tracker.archiveteam.org/zippcast zippcast]<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/zippcast-grab zippcast-grab]<br />
| data = {{IA collection|archiveteam_zippcast}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''ZippCast''' was a video sharing service, started in 2009.<ref>https://www.facebook.com/ZippCast/info</ref> On May 31, 2016 Louis Gualtieri (owner) decided to shut the site down on June 5, 2016, due to financial and personal reasons.<ref name="shutdown notice">https://www.facebook.com/ZippCast/posts/1083362195057709</ref><br />
<br />
The service was interrupted on June 10, 2016.<br />
<br />
== Shutdown ==<br />
<br />
Shutdown notice:<ref name="shutdown notice"/><br />
<br />
<blockquote>I am shutting the project down. It has been expressed by many users that the website has a untrustworthy track record and that I cannot be trusted. I have spent well over 60,000 of my personal money into this over the last two years and countless time away from my own family. Then I have to accept statements made by various users. It is taking a personal toll on myself and its led me to stay away from the community as a whole. I do not wish to damage things any further and that is the reason for my decision. I have had a team leave me in the dust and make false accusations. A team that never did anything to help the technical or financial aspect of the project. I cannot carry it any further. It is with a heavy heart to announce the shutdown date. 06/05/2016. On this date the servers will be shutdown and the website will be inaccessible.<br><br />
Louis Gualtieri</blockquote><br />
<br />
== Archives ==<br />
<br />
Time was too short and ArchiveTeam was able to save only 31% of the videos, 4.4 terabytes total.<ref>https://twitter.com/archiveteam/status/742649790467604480</ref><br />
<br />
Archives in WARC files can be found here: https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_zippcast.<br />
<br />
Content is also accessible through the Wayvack Machine, but the playback of videos may or may not work.<br />
<br />
== Download your data ==<br />
Louis Gualtieri said on ZippCast's – since deleted – Facebook page that he will transfer the servers to his home and may be able to send you your videos if you need. The exact content of the post cannot be recalled, so – and anyway – contact Louis Gualtieri if necessary.<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
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[[Category:Video hosting]]</div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Network.hu&diff=50227Network.hu2023-07-16T08:32:47Z<p>DigitalDragon: Add data link for project (no collection, unfortunately, and not all the items are in the inbox either)</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Network.hu<br />
| logo = network_hu_logo.png<br />
| image = network_hu_screenshot.png<br />
| URL = {{url|1=http://network.hu}}<br />
| project_status = {{endangered}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{saved}}<br />
| lead = [[user:bzc6p|bzc6p]]<br />
| data = [https://archive.org/details/@bzc6p bzc6p user page] {{IA collection|bzc6p_inbox}}<br />
}}<br />
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'''Network.hu''' is a Hungarian social networking website launched in 2007. It makes possible for users to be members of "communities" based on interests. Communities can have an own forum, blog, photo and video galleries. The website also provides an extensive user search engine, so that users can find other users with the same interest, age, residence, school attended etc. Most or all of the content is public, that is, visible to unregistered users too.<br />
<br />
== Site reconnaissance ==<br />
<br />
The ''Communities'' subpage counts 3083 communities as of 2020-08-18, but through their listing pages only '''1974 communities''' could be discovered. After going through the archived communities, '''430,168 user profiles''' could be discovered.<br />
<br />
As of August 2020, the site seems to be operating flawlessly, and is still open for news users. It seems however, that there is not too much activity nowadays. The decline seems to have started when Facebook gained popularity in Hungary (around 2011).<br />
<br />
Some images, along with their thumbnails, appear to have been deleted ([http://atolzigatolzig.network.hu/kepek example]), probably accidentally, as the pctrs (pictures) server returns 404 for them. This seems to affect a small (but not negligable) portion of the content.<br />
<br />
== Archiving ==<br />
<br />
=== Communities ===<br />
<br />
Between 2020-11-22 and 2021-01-29, 1974 communities have been saved, totalling to 2.7 TiB in site. Find the archives [https://archive.org/details/@bzc6p?and%5B%5D=network.hu here]. <br />
<br />
=== Users ===<br />
<br />
Between 2023-03-15 and 2023-06-12, 429,781 user profiles have been saved, totalling to 740 GiB in size. Archives are being uploaded to the Internet Archive.<br />
<br />
=== YouTube videos ===<br />
<br />
A substantial part of community and user videos are not hosted by network.hu itself, but are embeds from YouTube. These videos have not been saved (yet, but aren't planned either).<br />
<br />
<br />
{{Hungarian websites}}<br />
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[[Category:Social networks]]</div>DigitalDragonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Alive..._OR_ARE_THEY&diff=50226Alive... OR ARE THEY2023-07-16T07:36:37Z<p>DigitalDragon: Strawpoll is dead.</p>
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<div>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.<br />
<br />
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.<br />
<br />
== Still Alive ==<br />
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=== Owned by [[Yahoo!]] Imminent Demise! ===<br />
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* '''Yahoo and AOL''' properties are being sold by Verizon to hedge fund Apollo in 2021. The news comes immediately after the closure of [[Yahoo! Answers]] and will presumably be swiftly followed by radical disruption for the sake of short-term cash milking.<ref>{{url|https://www.reuters.com/technology/apollo-acquire-verizons-media-assets-5-bln-2021-05-03/}}</ref><br />
* <del>'''[[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?!</del><br />
** Flickr was sold to SmugMug in 2018, purged the biggest non-paying and non-freely licensed accounts and switched to a more predictable subscription-based model.<br />
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* '''[[9GAG]]''' ({{url|1=http://9gag.com/}}) has been seeing a dwindling popularity, and its owner seems to love spending a lot of money on investing in NFTs.<br />
* '''[[Academic Earth]]''' ({{url|1=http://academicearth.org/}}) has been worryingly unloved for a while, and holds a mountain of free education that's invaluable to the world.<br />
* '''[[A-Infos]]''' ({{url|1=http://ainfos.ca/}}) a multi-lingual news service by, for, and about anarchists. Have stuff archived since the 90's that isn't available anywhere else.<br />
* '''[[Encyclopedia Astronautica]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.astronautix.com/}}) is the most comprehensive collection of the history of space travel. '''Period.''' Seriously, the official NASA history folks will refer you this website if they can't answer your questions. However, Mark Wade (the sole creator/maintainer) abandoned his blog at the end of 2007, and the Encyclopedia has not been updated since May 2008, despite much happening in the space exploration world since then. A [https://archive.org/details/EncyclopediaAstronautica backup] was made of the site as of 28/01/2017.<br />
* '''[[Angelfire]]''' has been in constant decline for many years now.<br />
* '''[[AnimeMusicVideos.org]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.animemusicvideos.org/}}) is fine right now, but they rely on donations and host vast amounts of user-edited music videos on their server (presumably without mirrors). Hard to download as you have to be a member to get all the download links, and after downloading a handful you have to vode before you can d/l again (or you can donate which presumably gives you 1 year of free d/l access). Also, this site might be a grey area, copyright-wise, as the videos are all cut together from copyrighted material.<br />
* '''[[Archive of Our Own]]''' ({{url|1=https://archiveofourown.org/}}) is stable but contains a large catalog of fanfiction that would likely be lost if the site were to shut down.<br />
* '''[[The Believer Magazine]]''' ({{url|1=https://believermag.com/}}) was just purchased [https://twitter.com/ST_Collective_/status/1523756595317927936 by what appears to be a sex toy company with an interest in keeping the archives up] but they do not appear to be reliable or trustworthy custodians. <br />
* '''[[BetaArchive]]''' ({{url|http://www.betaarchive.com/}}) has Kafkaesque requirements to be able to access it, and apparently refuses to be backed up, presumably so that they get more visitors. Valuable cultural library of historic software with no backups? Aargh.<br />
* '''[[BioMedia Project]]''' ({{url|1=http://biomediaproject.com/bmp/}}) is a large archive of various BIONICLE media that has not had a notable update since 2015.<br />
* '''[[Carrd]]''' ({{url|1=https://carrd.co}}, {{url|1=https://crd.co}}, {{url|1=https://ju.mp}}, and {{url|1=https://uwu.ai}}) is a free web host, mainly used by minorities (the LGBTQ+ community and people with mental illnesses, for example) and Twitter/Tumblr communities. Also used for activism (one of the most popular Carrd websites is about Black Lives Matter, for example). Pretty stable as of now, but could become a good historical resource in the future.<br />
* '''[[Codecademy]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.codecademy.com/}}) has a large amount of valuable coding lessons.<br />
* '''[[DatasheetArchive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.datasheetarchive.com/}}) hosts over 350 million PDF datasheets for integrated circuits, some of which are very old and hard to track down otherwise. The site is slow from time to time and uses a convoluted IFRAME-based online viewer, presumably to make scraping the site harder. Nevertheless, multiple other similar sites exist, with large parts of their PDFs non-overlapping, so that at some point, all should be saved. Similar sites include http://doc.chipfind.<!-- -->ru/ (1.6m datasheets), http://www.alldatasheet.com/ (20m datasheets), http://www.datasheets.com/ (250m datasheets), http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/, http://freedatasheets.com/ and several others<br />
* '''[[Delicious]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.delicious.com/}}) loves to change their API, which has a side effect of making it difficult to back up.<br />
* '''[[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]''' ({{url|1=http://encyclopediadramatica.online/}}) is frequently up, down, and changing domains due to general Internet drama.<br />
* '''[[Facebook]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.facebook.com/}}) seems stable at the moment.<br />
* '''[[Fandom]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.fandom.com/}}), the for-pay arm of Wikipedia (just kidding, it's a different company, but shares a lot of people) is a repository of directed, unsubject-to-wikipolitics wikis, many of them intense and completist. It'd be bad for them to go away.<br />
* '''[[FanFiction]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.fanfiction.net/}}) represents many thousands of user-generated stories, essays and huge amounts of work.<br />
* '''[[Forrst]]''' ({{url|1=http://zurb.com/forrst}}) was shut down on April 14th, 2014, but all posts were archived by Forrst.<br />
* '''[[FreewareFiles]]''' ({{url|1=http://freewarefiles.net/}}) is a treasure trove of free and open source completed softwares. It's been around for 20 years, but hasn't had its look updated in a long while.<br />
* '''[[FurAffinity]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.furaffinity.net/}})<br />
* '''[[Google]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.google.com/}}) wants you to think they will be here forever.<br />
* '''[[h2g2]]''' ({{url|1=https://www.h2g2.com}}) was (among?) the first [https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A550955 online, collaborative encyclopaedia(s)].<br />
* '''[http://identifyyourbreyer.com/ Identify Your Breyer]''' - As of August 31st, 2022, "three curators" have come in to save the website. They're currently working on moving site hosts, but as of September 11th, 2022, they needed to push it back "a few weeks". While the fate of the site is still somewhat uncertain, it's no longer in danger of expiring within the next few months.<br />
* '''[[IFTTT]]''' ({{url|1=http://ifttt.com/}}) is still growing.<br />
* '''[[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?<br />
** 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.<br />
** More discussion at [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK]]<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[JanusVR]]''' is a company that aims to re-imagine the web as "rooms" interconnected with portals. These "rooms" can be hosted anywhere. Though the company and its technology are still fairly new, there are already cases of rooms with missing assets or even entire links broken, and [[ArchiveBot]]'s ability to grab these rooms is somewhat limited.<br />
*'''[[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?<br />
*'''[[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]].<br />
* '''[[Last.fm]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.last.fm/}}) is being cloned by free software developers in the form of [http://libre.fm Libre.fm] -- they have a tool, [http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/trunk/lastscrape/lastscrape.py?root=librefm Lastscrape] which can get all your listening data out into a tab delimited text file.<br />
* '''[[Literotica.com]]''' ({{url|1=http://literotica.com/}}) Contains over 290,000 user-written stories and poems. First pass at a backup: [http://mir.cr/12CMQUTL part1.rar], [http://mir.cr/HO79CCUO part2.rar], [http://mir.cr/TOVJWQ4E part3.rar], [http://mir.cr/1SIAB4AM part4.rar] -- contains the text of all stories as of the backup date in XML format. (One page of one story is missing because it doesn't exist on the site; embedded images and audio are not included this time; non-English stories aren't labelled with their language).<br />
* '''[[LiveJournal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.livejournal.com/}}) fired a bunch of US-based developers, but is still serving from its new (presumably cheaper) data center in Montana.<br />
* '''[[Mapillary]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.mapillary.com/}}) project similar to Google's Street View, but with CC BY-SA photos submitted by users. Particularly worrisome since Mapillary requires purchasing licenses to download a large number of photos, making it essentially a big silo. See more at http://blog.improve-osm.org/en/2016/11/a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-mapmaking-with-osm-2/<br />
* '''[[Megalodon.jp]]''' ({{url|1=http://megalodon.jp/}}) is a Japanese archiving website. Outside of Japanese users, reddit users use it sometimes.<br />
*'''[[The Mod Archive]]''' ({{url|1=http://modarchive.org/}}) One of the largest collection of music modules.<br />
*'''[[Mod DB]]''' ({{url|1=http://moddb.com/}}) is the largest website dedicated to user generated game content, including mods (12,000) and addons (14,000) with a combined size of 4,5 TB of user-generated downloadable content.<br />
*'''[[Moegirlpedia]]''' ({{url|https://zh.moegirl.org}}) is the biggest Chinese-language encyclopedia for popular culture.<br />
*'''[[MUGEN Archive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.mugenarchive.com/}}) Holds 1000's of user created addon content for the custom fighting game MUGEN. Much of the stuff uploaded here was thought lost forever. However, thanks to all the copyright infringing content and uploading a lot of content without the creators permission, the future of the site is questionable.<br />
*'''[[nyaa]]''' ({{url|https://nyaa.si/}}) - Biggest torrent site of Japanese popular culture.<br />
* '''[[Pastebin]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pastebin.com/}}) is still getting filled with text.<br />
* '''[[Pixiv]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pixiv.net/}}) and '''[[deviantArt]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.deviantart.com/}}) are the largest Japanese and American (respectively) fanart (and valuable art in general) collections on the internet. Most of works are possibly included in [https://saucenao.com/status.html many boorus]. Someone also mentioned [http://www.minitokyo.net/ Minitokyo] around here somewhere. [[Internet Archive|IA]] has a 2008 [https://archive.org/details/mt-walls-2008-01-01 wallpaper dump] from there.<br />
* '''[[Pouet]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pouet.net/}}) is an important site of the demoscene. It indexes and ranks demoscene productions ('prods') and also includes a free-for-all BBS-style forum. [https://demozoo.org/ Demozoo] is a site in the same vein with a slightly different focus. They both use the same ISP iirc so if that goes down a lot of user created content is lost.<br />
* '''[[Reddit]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.reddit.com/}}) is a content aggregator where [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Issues_relating_to_former_Digg_website many Digg users migrated in 2010]. Attracted controversy in July 2015, with accusations of [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/amageddon censorship] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_banning shadowbanning]. Many controversial subreddits (with up to hundreds of thousands subscribers each) are "quarantined"; many of these have subsequently been deleted. Stable for now, but team is small.<br />
* '''[[SourceForge]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.sourceforge.net/}}) is a critical repository of open source code, information, and webpages. It is mirrored and maintained, but there are sure to be parts that are neither.<br />
* '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.thepiratebay.org/}}) is one of the largest and most popular torrent search engines. It's still having persistent legal problems. The tracker went down in November 2012, but the site still serves torrents and magnet links. If a torrent is lost, it becomes impossible to connect to other computers distributing the shared files. Considering that there are links to TPB ''all over this wiki'', this site is pretty dang important. After they were raided in December 2014, a project known as [http://openbay.isohunt.to/ The Open Bay] was launched, which lets anybody host a mirror of TPB with automatic database updates, so even if TPB goes down again, temporarily or not, its database is still available.<br />
*'''Supercard''' {{url|1=http://supercard.sc/}}) is the website of a manufacturer of Nintendo DS flashcarts (notably the DSTWO). The website is fine but it has not been updated in years and some section of it are broken. Archiving the [http://down.supercard.sc/download/ download section] should be a priority as some flashcarts rely on software hosted there.<br />
* '''[[Tribe]]''' ({{url|1=http://tribe.net}}) hosts large amount of user-generated data, and has been having consistent uptime issues.<br />
* '''[[Tumblr]]''' ({{url|1=http://tumblr.com}}) is a highly popular blogging platform which was bought by [[Yahoo]]! in May, 2013. <br />
* '''[[TVTropes]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage}}) is a popular wiki dedicated to finding recurring patterns in fiction, and discussing fiction in general. No word on whether there are backups. The administrators have a tendency to delete things indiscriminately, usually to save on disk space: article edit histories are frequently purged, and old forum threads have been known to get deleted mercilessly. A [http://archive.org/details/archiveteam-tvtropes-2012-09 backup] and [https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Main_Page an alternate website] with imported content from July 2012 are available. <br />
* '''[[Urban Dictionary]]''' ({{URL|https://www.urbandictionary.com/}}) is "a crowdsourced online dictionary for slang words and phrases"<ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Urban_Dictionary&oldid=926230888|Wikipedia}}</ref>. It's financed by ads and a web store, and there are no signs of serious trouble as of late 2019.<br />
* '''[[WebCite]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.webcitation.org/}}) itself seems to be having trouble with funding, and is facing "possible discontinuation." As this site serves as a stable reference for fleeting Web references, it would be pretty disastrous if it went away.<br />
* '''[[whitehouse.gov]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.whitehouse.gov/}}) is overhauled every time a new US president assumes office and changes continuously during the term. Old versions are preserved thanks to the [http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/ephemera_vs_the_law/ Presidential Records Act] (e.g. [http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/ George W. Bush's]), but we also want to watch out for site changes / disappeared pages that were embarrassing or whatnot.<br />
* '''[[WikiLeaks]]''' ({{url|1=http://wikileaks.org/}}) contains several thousand leaked documents from sources such as the Iraq War and the cables famously known under the label 'Cablegate'. Due to the content on the website, and that PayPal and Amazon (very) quickly dropped their hosting for them during Cablegate's opening days, it should be considered a potential target for any number of government committees for a quick shutdown. They have an uncertain financial situation, and the site was inaccessible for some time in 2010.<br />
* '''[[Wikidot]]''' ({{url|1=https://www.wikidot.com/}}) has not had development work for years, there is no official presence on their [http://community.wikidot.com/forum:recent-posts support forum], just many complaints about the difficulty contacted staff, even from those with paid accounts. Backup and wiki conversion tools are poor, services like search and anti-spam bots have problems for some time, and the site has been [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228862.0 up for sale] since February 2020.<br />
** [[SCP Foundation]] is hosted on Wikidot. They plan on moving off of the platform and there are multiple archives, but there are still over 10 years' worth of creative writing that could be lost forever if Wikidot were to shut down.<br />
* '''[[Wikipedia]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wikipedia.org/}}) will surely be here forever and ever! Fortunately, we don't have to take their word for it as they offer dumps of the data minus the photos. However, no-one has verified that Wikipedia can actually be restored from these dumps. If disaster strikes then we could discover a serious problem.<br />
* '''[[Writing]]''' ({{url|1=http://Writing.com/}}) A website for writing that was big in the 2000's. More and more restricted to guests and free users, as they are in need of money to keep the site running. Less and less popular for that reason<br />
* [[YTMND]] - Resurrected on March 31st, 2020 with an archive being made in June 2018. Still on the Watchlist because of its past, but mostly safe for the time being.<br />
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* '''[[Kiwi Farms]]''' ({{url|http://kiwifarms.net/}}, {{url|http://kiwifar.ms/|former alternate .ms domain}}) is a notorious forum where users mock [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], or people who have attracted ridicule because of their behavior or their beliefs. On January 20, 2017, the forum was shut down without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later. As of September 2022, the website has been excluded from the Wayback Machine and the owner is struggling to find a new host due to a [https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/us/citing-imminent-danger-cloudflare-drops-hate-site-kiwi-farms/ar-AA11t2U9 dispute with Cloudflare].<br />
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* '''[http://www.ning.com/ Ning]''' in 2010 has laid off 40% of staff and seems to be running out of money [http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/15/nings-bubble-bursts-no-more-free-networks-cuts-40-of-staff/]. There is certainly some networks worth archiving among the 2 million networks[http://blog.ning.com/2010/01/2-million-ning-networks.html] they host. Grouply[http://blog.grouply.com/grouply-welcomes-ning-networks/] and Posterous[http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-commits-to-building-a-ning-blog-imp] say they are going to offer migration tools.<br />
* 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.<br />
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* '''[http://debates.oireachtas.ie/ debates.oireachtas.ie]''' on September 18th, 2012 the Houses of Oireachtas website [http://www.kildarestreet.com/statement2012/ 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 [https://archive.org/details/debatesoireachtasie-XML WARC archive] of the XML only.<br />
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* '''[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175 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. Still up as of October 11th, 2022.<br />
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* '''[http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ World of Spectrum]''''s current administrator announced that [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/52892/had-enough he's ceasing to support the website and forum within 8 weeks] (as of July 3). The future of the website is uncertain. Still up as of October 11th, 2022.<br />
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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. Still up as of October 11th, 2022.<br />
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* 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.<br />
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* [[Yelp, Inc.]] lost 30% of its advertisers and people don't seem too happy about it.<br />
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* '''[[Cheezburger]]''' {{url|https://www.cheezburger.com/}}, once a “network” of meme blogs but now one single centralized site, has barely been maintained by its parent company (Cracked.com) for years, with the account creation system being broken since at least 2019. A lot of old meme images (of the Impact-font/rage-face/advice-animal variety) can be found here, dating back to 2007, and it would be a loss to the unique culture of the Internet if all these were to disappear. A lot of its contemporaries (such as [[Lolcats.com]]) have been lost to domain expiries and the ensuing cyber-squatters. There are still some dedicated users posting brand-new meme material here, but some people held on to GeoCities till the bitter end as well.<br />
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* '''[[Twitter]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.twitter.com/}}) is tweaking away, with a dire financial situation and [http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/06/twitter-in-meltdown-as-entire-userbase-revolts/ controversial decisions]. [https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23452196/elon-musk-twitter-employee-meeting-q-and-a Now faces potential bankruptcy after being purchased by Elon Musk].<br />
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* [[Mozilla Hubs]] [https://hubs.mozilla.com/labs/mozilla-hubs-early-access-release/ Blog mozilla hubs early access release]. Mozilla Hubs is changing their payment structure from open source to a subscription service. They will be deleting open source content.<br />
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* [[The Correspondent]], From 30 Sep 19 to 1 Jan 21 [https://thecorrespondent.com The Correspondent] published member-funded journalism about the forces that shape our world. The organization has shut down[https://thecorrespondent.com/834] and has put up a read-only archive of all publications that were previously only accessible to paying members. As keeping such an archive running will probably cost someone money it might not stay online for many more years.<br />
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* YoyoGames, developer of the GameMaker application, is planning to retire the old "'''[[GameMaker Sandbox]]'''" game hosting website in favor of the "GameMaker: Player" service, by late October.<ref>http://gamemakerblog.com/2014/10/04/its-official-digital-store-will-replace-gamemaker-sandbox/</ref> [http://help.yoyogames.com/entries/101815476-GameMaker-Player-FAQs "Sandbox content will remain available for a period of time until the GameMaker: Player is fully live."]<br />
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* [[nokia.com]] is [http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/09/19/goodbye-nokia-com-microsoft-makes-new-home-devices-services-microsoft-com/ being destroyed by Microsoft]. [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/adktg It has been saved] by the [[ArchiveBot]].<br />
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* [[Yahoo!]] [http://www.yqlblog.net/blog/2013/11/11/y-ahoo-it-url-shortener-end-of-life-announcement/ retired] the y.ahoo.it [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] November 20th 2013 but the shortener is still active.<br />
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* 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.<br />
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* [[Giphy]]: Bought by Facebook, to be "integrated" (assimilated) into Instagram https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/facebook-to-buy-giphy<br />
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* '''[[Dayviews]]''' ({{url|1=http://dayviews.com/}}), the Swedish photo diary community contains quite a bit of 00s Swedish "youth culture". It's had "technical problems" for months now and has said that "many old photos were lost".<br />
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* [[Surrender at 20]], a popular [[League of Legends]] news and teardown site, has suddenly ceased activity on November 14th, 2022. Site owner moobeat posted a tweet [https://twitter.com/moobeat/status/1592230197729837059 saying "life sucks major shit right now"] and alluded to some personal woes he's been going through. moobeat's wife, Aznbeat, posted a comment on November 25th on the site's latest post [https://www.surrenderat20.net/2022/11/winter-skin-splash-preview.html#comment-6050163346 stating that while she helped with running the site to pay their bills after moobeat was hospitalized for a while, she otherwise "had no interest in League, nor will I"] and that "unless by some miracle he ever decides to take some responsibility for it, then don't expect any more coverage from us".<br />
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* {{url|https://www.tinaja.com/}} Owner is deceased.<br />
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== See Also ==<br />
* [[A Million Ways to Die on the Web]]<br />
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New sites should be added in chronological order, newest death date first. Forward-looking death dates should be added to the first list only. Sites large enough to warrant additional information will receive a dedicated page, linked from here and on [[:Category:Closing projects]].<br />
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A list of sites which warrant pre-emptive monitoring (either for their cultural significance or because they appear to be endangered) can be found at [[Fire Drill]]. Some general brainstorming is at [[Deathwatch/Misc]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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=== 2026 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.breatharian.eu/|breatharian.eu}}, which includes a forum. Announcement first appeared between January and May 2022.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220524161320/http://www.breatharian.eu/</ref><br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
* January (under review for possible extension): [[Chrome Web Store]] will stop accepting updates to manifest v2 extensions and remove all remaining manifest v2 items from the store, with support disabled for running these extensions in the Chrome browser.<ref>{{URL|https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.odn.ne.jp/index.html|ODN Homepage Service}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.odn.ne.jp/odn_info/20230413.html}}</ref> Each websites are located in directories under the www1.odn.ne.jp and www2.odn.ne.jp domains.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.synapse.jp/|SYNAPSE Homepage Service}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.synapse.jp/info/cgi/?pr2023040501}}</ref> Each websites are located in directories under the www.synapse.ne.jp, www2.synapse.ne.jp, www3.synapse.ne.jp, www4.synapse.ne.jp, www5.synapse.ne.jp, www13.synapse.ne.jp, and www15.synapse.ne.jp domains.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/|NifCloud}} will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://hosting.nifcloud.com/close/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2023 ===<br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://showbuzzdaily.com/|Showbuzz Daily}} blog covering daily TV ratings. Publication ended 6/27/23 and site to go offline sometime in near future.<ref>{{URL|https://showbuzzdaily.com/articles/some-unfortunate-news.html}}</ref><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://twittercommunity.com|Twitter Developers Forum}} may be phased out with new API. Last reachable May 4, 2023.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20230504170115/https://twittercommunity.com/</ref><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://world.kano.me/|Kano World Studio}}<br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://le-boxon-de-lex.fr|Le boxon de Lex}}, a french site about celebrities appearing on TV, announced removing hosted videos and at some point the site as well<ref>{{URL|https://le-boxon-de-lex.fr/27267/epilogue}}</ref><br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://stat.ink|stat.ink}}, a website that allows users to upload their Splatoon battles and statistics, has announced a potential shutdown in the future, due to being scared of Nintendo's copyright.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.fetus.jp/202305/991.html}}</ref><br />
* October 1st: {{URL|https://www.oryxspioenkop.com/|Oryx}}, a news blog with an affinity for military operations and state affairs, will be shutting down after 10 years because of personal reasons.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/oryxspioenkop/status/1670723829713215489}}</ref><br />
* September 30: {{URL|https://foiaonline.gov|FOIAonline}} "September 30, 2023, is the last day for the public to access the FOIAonline website"<ref>{{URL|https://foiaonline.gov/resources/Public%20-%20FAQs/FOIAonline%20Decommissioning%20FAQ.pdf}}</ref><br />
* September 29: {{URL|https://dvd.netflix.com/|DVD Netflix}} will ship their last DVD. Customers will receive their final bill in August, and returns will be accepted until October 27. The site has a sizeable collection of publicly-available video trailers and metadata for ~37172 discs.<br />
* September 29: [[ZOWA]] will terminate their service. Uploads will stop on July 31.<ref>{{URL|https://note.com/zowa/n/ndf5d4f158589}}</ref><br />
* September 5: Orange's French [[ISP Hosting]] will shut down<ref>{{URL|https://assistance.orange.fr/assistance-commerciale/la-gestion-de-vos-offres-et-options/trouver-des-infos-sur-vos-options/arret-du-service-pages-perso-d-orange_423326-953029}}</ref><br />
* Between September 1 and October 1: [[Miraheze]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Board/Policies/20230615-Statement}}</ref><br />
* September 1: [[Gfycat]] will shut down.<ref>Notice on the {{URL|https://gfycat.com/|homepage}} as of July 1: "The Gfycat service is being discontinued. Please save or delete your Gfycat content by visiting https://www.gfycat.com and logging in to your account. After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted from gfycat.com".</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.uktrainsim.com/|UKTrainSim}}, a long-running website with files for train simulation games, mostly Microsoft Train Simulator<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.uktrainsim.com/index2.php?form_news=readreport&form_report=1937}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Xuite]], a Taiwan blogging service operated by the ISP Chunghwa Telecom, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://xuite.net/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/|太平洋电脑网论坛 (PConline forum)}}, a Chinese IT forum, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://itbbs.pconline.com.cn/bbs/54764363.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://news.mydrivers.com/1/909/909906.htm}}</ref><br />
* August 29: "The {{URL|https://www.stitcher.com/|Stitcher}} apps and web listening service will be shutting down on August 29, 2023" <ref>{{URL|https://stitcher.helpshift.com/hc/en/1-stitcher/section/151-stitcher-farewell-1687885657/|Stitcher Farewell}}</ref><br />
* August 21: [[Skyblog]], a French social network, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://static.skyrock.net/img/skyblog_eol.jpg}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://lequipe-skyrock.skyrock.com/3356709138-ICI-T-LIBRE.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://the-skyrock-team.skyrock.com/3356796874-posted-on-2023-06-22.html}}</ref> The company says it will move the anonymized content to the National Archives of France, where it will be available for researchers.<br />
* August 1: [[Wysp]], an artist community, will be permanently turned down.<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://thesilphroad.com/|The Silph Road}}, a Pokémon GO community, shuts down all services due to Niantic axing their sponsorship.<ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/TheSilphRoad/comments/13fs6kx/the_end_of_an_era_after_seven_extraordinary_years/}}</ref><br />
* August 1: {{URL|http://www.mudrunnermods.com/|Spintires: MudRunner Mods}}, a site that hosts customizations for the computer games SpinTires, MudRunner, and SnowRunner, has a popup saying "We will sunset this page on August 1, 2023". It says "We're moving to CurseForge!", but searching for any of those three games on CurseForge's site turns up nothing, so it's not clear whether the content will be moved or deleted. (It seems plausible also that there may be similar sites for different games affected, but unsure how to check if that is the case.)<br />
* July: {{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/|EPA Archive}}<ref>{{URL|https://archive.epa.gov/}}</ref><br />
* July: {{URL|https://trove.nla.gov.au/|Trove}} ([[wikipedia:Trove]], National Library of Australia)<ref>{{URL|https://www.artshub.com.au/news/opinions-analysis/troves-funding-runs-out-in-july-2023-its-time-for-a-radical-overhaul-2604651/}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/|Harvard Blogs}}, a WordPress service for people with Harvard email addresses<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/faqs/who-can-blog/}}</ref> will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/blog/2023/03/02/blogs-harvard-edu-shutting-down/}}</ref> (The shutdown was originally announced for June 30, but was deferred in favor of making blogs read-only on that date.)<br />
* 'On or before July 24': {{URL|https://archive.ragtag.moe/|Ragtag Archive}}, VTuber's video collection will shut down. They provide a list of videos that no longer exist and a dump of the complete database.<ref>{{URL|https://archive.ragtag.moe/announcement.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/kitsune_cw/status/1661995517805744128}}</ref><br />
* July 9: TPG's [[ISP Hosting]], will shut down per an email to users. The {{URL|https://support.tpg.com.au/tpg-members-webspace-end-life|shutdown notice}} does not give the exact date.<br />
* July 7: {{URL|https://vulpine.club/|vulpine.club}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance, is shutting down due to burnout.<ref>{{URL|https://vulpine.club/@rey/110159033678693673}}</ref><br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://txti.es/|txti.es}}, which has been creating "fast web pages for everyone" since 2014 is shutting down on July 1 due to "bad actors". People can create their own page with their own unique URL and add text to it.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://anonbin.io/|anonbin.io}}, an anonymous text hosting service, is shutting down.<br />
* June (under review for possible extension): [[Chrome Web Store]]: "All existing Manifest V2 items with visibility set to Public at that time will have their visibility changed to Unlisted." <ref>{{URL|https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/mv3/mv2-sunset/}}</ref><br />
* <s>June 30</s>: {{URL|https://soylentnews.org/|SoylentNews}}, a fork of Slashdot created in the early 2010s, was to shut down<ref>{{URL|1=https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=23/05/20/0343254}}</ref> but might live on<ref>{{URL|1=https://soylentnews.org/meta/article.pl?sid=23/05/26/2114210}}</ref>.<br />
* May 15: [[Imgur]] change their terms of service 'focused on removing old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account from our platform as well as nudity, pornography, & sexually explicit content'.<ref>{{URL|https://help.imgur.com/hc/en-us/articles/14415587638029-Imgur-Terms-of-Service-Update-April-19-2023-}}</ref><br />
* <s>April 13 or 14</s>: [[Docker Hub]] was going sunset and make inaccessible all Free Teams until they realised what a bad idea that was.<br />
* <s>April 10</s>: [[DPReview]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.dpreview.com/news/5901145460/dpreview-com-to-close}}</ref><br />
* April 6: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://mailinglists.rootsweb.com/|mailing lists}}<br />
* 'early April': {{URL|https://www.kaotic.com/|Kaotic}} (unless a buyer is found)<ref>{{URL|https://www.kaotic.com/video/145157_Kaotic_is_Coming_to_an_End}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://pomf.cat/}} ([[Pomf.se]] [[Pomf.se/Clones|clone]])<br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.anaitgames.com/foros|AnaitGames's forums}}, Spanish forums for video games launched in 2006.<ref>Notice on {{URL|https://www.anaitgames.com/foros}}: 'Los foros de AnaitGames dejarán de estar disponibles el próximo 28 de febrero. Muchas gracias por este tiempo. En adelante, las comunidades oficiales de la web vivirán en Patreon y Discord.'</ref><br />
* February 23: [[Issuu]] will start enforcing new limits on free accounts, rendering some content inaccessible.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/10fg8f3/issuu_making_changes_that_will_make_a_lot_of/}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[Zhihu|Zhihu Circles]], Zhihu Circles will be terminating access to the circle's homepage on 1/31/23, {{URL|https://www.zhihu.com/club/explore|The Explore page}} will likely stop working by 12/26/22 according to the published timeline. All direct link to posts will stop working by 3/27/23 and the ability to download your posts will be disabled<ref>{{URL|https://zhuanlan.zhihu.com/p/585385202}}</ref><br />
* January 1: [[Karayou.com]]<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* Unknown: {{URL|http://ksco.com/|KSCO}} radio station from San Francisco, along with its {{URL|http://zbsradio.com/|ZBS Radio Network}} site, which hosts past recordings. The station was put up for sale without success, and the owner intended to abandon it at the end of the year.<br />
* End of 2022: {{URL|https://www.eastbay.com/}}, closing after 2022.<ref>{{URL|https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nostalgic-sports-retailer-eastbay-closing-233749431.html}}</ref> <br />
* 'By early 2023': {{URL|https://www.bulletin.com/|Bulletin}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/4/23387510/facebook-meta-bulletin-newsletter-substack-shutdown}}</ref><br />
* December 31 (or January 1 2023): pages hosted by Finnish ISP Elisa<ref>{{url|https://gist.github.com/horsemankukka/35fceead5425be2146a9649cc90460a3}}</ref><br />
* (Unknown): [[Zenly]] On 2022-08-31 Snap Inc. announced that they were beginning the process of winding down Zenly as part of a restructuring. <ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/31/23330123/snap-layoffs-announced-original-shows-canceled-games-mini-apps}}</ref><br />
* (Unknown): [[Voisey]] On 2022-08-31 Snap Inc. announced that they were beginning the process of winding down Voisey as part of a restructuring. <ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/31/23330123/snap-layoffs-announced-original-shows-canceled-games-mini-apps}}</ref><br />
* End of 2022 or before: The {{URL|https://forum.tek.com/|Tektronix Technical Forums}} will be "decomissioned".<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.tek.com/viewtopic.php?f=583&p=291164}}</ref><br />
* Throughout late 2021 through 2022?: [[Vimeo]] emails users in the top 1% of bandwidth usage telling them to pay thousands of dollars per year to continue using the service.<br />
* December 31: [[Clara.io]], a 3d model repository, will shut down.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://hipcast.com/|Hipcast}}, a podcast hosting service founded in 2003<ref>{{URL|https://blog.hipcast.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* Soon™ as of December 25: [[CurseForge|CurseForge's]] {{URL|https://authors-old.curseforge.com/forums|Authors}} ({{URL|https://authors.curseforge.com/forums|previous location}}) and {{URL|https://minecraft.curseforge.com/|Minecraft}} forums<ref>{{URL|https://authors-old.curseforge.com/forums/forums-deprecating-soon-click-to/267743-forums-deprecating-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://minecraft.curseforge.com/forums/forums-deprecating-soon-click-to/267742-forums-deprecating-soon}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|https://www.hon.ch/}}, a medical website, its banner is on several websites like https://www.rxlist.com/ https://www.webmd.com/ https://www.drugs.com/<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://webryblog.biglobe.ne.jp/|WebryBlog}}, a famous Japanese blogging service, will start deleting its website in order to terminate its service on January 31, 2023. The domain of each website consists of "*.at.webry.info".<ref>{{URL|https://info.at.webry.info/202201/article_2.html}}</ref><br />
* November 16: Polish file host [[chomikuj.pl]] will start deleting "old, long unused files".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/OldPhonePreserv/status/1589356509372502016}}</ref><br />
* November 1: Old (roughly, older than 2 years) apps on the Google Play Store cease being discoverable in search or installable on newer operating systems<ref>{{URL|https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2022/04/expanding-plays-target-level-api-requirements-to-strengthen-user-security.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>September 30</s> sometime later<ref>{{URL|https://github.com/openstreetmap/operations/issues/604}}</ref>: The FluxBB {{URL|https://forum.openstreetmap.org/|OpenStreetMap forums}} will be "retired" in favor of {{URL|https://community.openstreetmap.org|a Discourse instance}}.<br />
* August: {{URL|https://lightform.com/|Lightform}}, a manufacturer of projection mapping equipment<ref>{{URL|https://guide.lightform.com/hc/en-us/articles/4417512435731-Sunset-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Educational publisher McGraw Hill will shut down Glencoe.com 'and all of its associated sites"<ref>{{URL|http://glencoe.mheducation.com/}}</ref>. The glencoe.com domain itself had already been retired in 2017<ref>{{URL|http://glencoe.com/}} after getting past the retirement notice</ref>, but the content continued to be available under glencoe.mheducation.com.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/|Japanese website of Dungeons & Dragons}}<ref>{{URL|1=http://hobbyjapan.co.jp/dd/}}</ref><br />
* June: [[Chrome Web Store]] ends support for Chrome apps on Chrome OS (excluding for Enterprise and Education customers, which will remain supported until at least January 2025). <ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/10/21362688/google-chrome-apps-delay-shutdown-timeline-support-2021-2022}}</ref> <ref>https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/changes-to-chrome-app-support-timeline.html</ref> <ref>{{URL|https://blog.chromium.org/2021/10/extending-chrome-app-support-on-chrome.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>'Summer'</s> July 7: {{URL|https://www.miniclip.com/|Miniclip}} web game platform<ref>{{URL|https://support.miniclip.com/hc/en-us/articles/5091169897617}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Flickr]] is removing free accounts containing "Restricted or Moderate content."<br />
* <s>April 29</s> (only some links may be removed now): [[GitHub]], with a lead time of only 4 days, will shut down their git.io URL shortener.<ref>{{URL|https://github.blog/changelog/2022-04-25-git-io-deprecation/}}</ref><br />
* April 1: [[Coub]]<br />
* April 1 <s>March 24</s> <s>March 10</s>: {{URL|https://bugs.python.org/|Python's bug tracker}} (BPO) will be switched to read-only mode and issues migrated to GitHub.<ref>{{URL|https://discuss.python.org/t/github-issues-migration-is-coming-soon/13791}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.star.ne.jp/free/|Star Server free}}, a Japanese web hosting service will shutdown.<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.star.ne.jp/free/support/news_detail.php?view_id=2887}}</ref> Some people are working on collecting URL lists {{URL|https://geolog.mydns.jp/webcrow/|here}}.<br />
* March 9: The English version of the online card-trading game [https://www.a3-liber.jp/ A3!] shuts down.<ref>{{URL|https://a-three.fandom.com/wiki/A3!_Wiki}}, notice at top as of January 28; presumably this is repeating information from {{URL|https://twitter.com/MankaiCompanyEN/status/1486258864647548932|an "in-game announcement"}}</ref><br />
* March 9: {{URL|https://lsdb.eu/|Liveset Database}} (LSDB), a database of raves<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://drivetribe.com/|DriveTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://drivetribe.com/p/dear-drivetribe-community-Lu6PrOvgRuWjMioTSA_UQQ}}</ref><br />
* "Begining of 2022", apparently January 11<ref>{{URL|https://framemo.org/}}, {{URL|https://framaslides.org/login}}, {{URL|https://framabookin.org/en/}}</ref>: Various services run by the French organization [[Framasoft]]<ref>{{URL|https://alt.framasoft.org/en/}}</ref><br />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: LG to leave the mobile phone business, which means shutting down the "LG Mobile Developer website"<ref>{{url|1=https://developer.lge.com/main/RetrieveNoticePop.dev?nticId=NOT00005060}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.4players.de/|4Players}}, a major German gaming news site and community, will also shut down (according to the readmore.de announcement,<ref name="readmore.de" /> although no notice has been posted on the site itself). 4Players previously announced that it would close on October 31 of the same year,<ref>{{URL|https://www.4players.de/4players.php/spielinfonews/Allgemein/3926/2199762/4Players-Mehr_als_14500_Berichte_ueber_200000_News_und_ca_60000_Videos_Das_Magazin_bedankt_sich_fuer_eure_Treue_und_verabschiedet_sich_im_Herbst.html}}</ref> although on November 1 it instead reported that it would be continuing under new ownership.<ref>{{URL|https://www.4players.de/4players.php/spielinfonews/Allgemein/3926/2200697/4Playersde-In_eigener_Sache_4Playersde_geht_mit_neuer_Fuehrung_weiter.html}}</ref><br />
* November 30: The official website of " i-mode", Japan's feature phone IP connection service, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/info/notice/page/201007_00.html}}</ref><br />
* <s>November 2: The {{URL|https://community.qvc.com/|user forums and user blogs of QVC}} will shut down on November 2 <ref>{{URL|https://www.qvc.com/content/featured/support.html}}</ref></s><br />
* October/November: The Tor Project discontinues support for v2 Onion Services.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref> They released a new version of the Tor Browser on 7 November that drops support for v2.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0}}</ref> The core Tor software stopped supporting them in versions 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11, and 0.4.6.8, all released on 26 October.<ref>{{URL|https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/tor/-/raw/main/ChangeLog}}</ref> As the network upgrades, v2 addresses become inaccessible even from old clients.<br />
* October 1: Dutch ISP XS4ALL will shut down all its hosting.<ref>{{URL|https://www.xs4all.nl/hostingdiensten/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: The [[zeroshell]] domain will be decommissioned or sold on September 30, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://zeroshell.org/}}</ref><br />
* September 30: <s>Khan Academy will remove their {{URL|https://www.khanacademy.org/test-prep/mcat|MCAT preparation material}}.<ref>{{URL|https://support.khanacademy.org/hc/en-us/articles/360043801271-Khan-Academy-Courses-to-be-Retired-in-Summer-2020}}</ref></s>Khan Academy has posted a banner there saying they're working on a partnership to continue maintaining the course.<br />
* September 10: {{URL|https://bklyner.com/|Bklyner}}, a Brooklyn news site, ceases publication.<ref>{{URL|https://bklyner.com/bklyners-last-day-sept-10/}}</ref><br />
* August 24 <s>August 10</s>: {{URL|https://spectrum.chat/|Spectrum}}, a community platform, has been purchased by Microsoft and will be made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://spectrum.chat/spectrum/general/join-us-on-our-new-journey~e4ca0386-f15c-4ba8-8184-21cf5fa39cf5}}</ref><br />
* August 2: {{URL|https://www.viva.nl/|V!VA}}/VIVA, a Dutch fashion magazine, along with {{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/|its forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.viva.nl/overig/viva-en-het-viva-forum-stoppen/list_messages/478798}}</ref><br />
* "mid 2021": [[Docker Hub]] will start deleting free accounts' 'inactive' images (ones that have not been pushed or pulled in 6 months), comprising almost one third of the total data.<ref>{{URL|https://www.docker.com/pricing/retentionfaq}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24143588}}</ref> This was originally announced to happen on 2020-11-01 but later delayed.<ref>{{URL|https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-hub-image-retention-policy-delayed-and-subscription-updates/}}</ref><br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.jurnalotaku.com|Jurnal Otaku}}, a Indonesian-language news site dedicated to Japanese entertainment, went into an indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/01/pengumuman-penutupan/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://jurnalotaku.com/2021/06/30/pengumuman-hiatus-aktivitas/}}</ref><br />
* June 30 <s>March 31</s>: Web host [[Webs.com]] shutting down. <ref>{{URL|https://support.webs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360048554451-Webs-to-Shut-Down-March-31st-2021}}</ref><br />
* June 15 <s>May 31</s>: {{URL|https://travis-ci.org/|travis-ci.org}}, though past build data will remain read-only 'for an indefinite period'<ref>{{URL|https://blog.travis-ci.com/2021-05-07-orgshutdown}}</ref><br />
* 'before summer': {{URL|http://www.opengrey.eu/|OpenGrey}}, a catalogue of European grey literature<br />
* May 30: {{URL|https://www.kingdomhearts.com/unionx/us/|KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ.}} KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will end service on May 30, 2021 at 6:00 p.m. (PDT) / May 31, 2021 1:00 (UTC). An offline version of this app will be made available so players can enjoy the entire story. KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ Dark Road will be playable offline and KINGDOM HEARTS Union χ will be available as a theater mode.<ref>{{URL|http://api.sp.kingdomhearts.com/information/detail/75152}}</ref><br />
* May 24: Autodesk [[Tinkercad]] will delete accounts that haven't logged in within the past 15 months, and delete any data for those accounts.<ref>https://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Tinkercad-inactive-social-account-deletion.html</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://jfrog.com|JFrog}} will shut down its Bintray, JCenter, GoCenter, and ChartCenter binary distribution services. JCenter will keep distributing files read-only until 2022-02-01.<ref>{{URL|https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[Periscope]], the livestreaming service owned by [[Twitter]], will shut down its mobile app as well as new broadcasts. "Broadcasts that were shared to Twitter will live on as replays." <ref>{{URL|https://periscope.medium.com/farewell-periscope-164db2742b7c}}</ref> "Periscope web at periscope.tv/periscopeco, will remain available as a read-only archive of public broadcasts." <ref>{{URL|https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/periscope-faq}}</ref><br />
* "Per 2021": Dutch 'information library' {{URL|https://www.infonu.nl/|InfoNu}} has turned into a read-only archive, apparently due to a shift in Internet advertisement models. The site has quite a large amount of articles on various topics, often showing up on Page 1 of search results.<br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* Unknown: Penguin Random House in December 2019 has been [https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-pearson-m-a-disposal/pearson-exits-consumer-publishing-with-penguin-random-house-disposal-idUKKBN1YM0OH?il=0 sold to Bertelsmann], which already controlled it. Changes may be coming.<br />
* December 14: [[PornHub]] [https://www.vice.com/en/article/jgqjjy/pornhub-suspended-all-unverified-videos-content disabled all content uploaded from unverified accounts] (meaning accounts that haven't been officially registered/verified to a specific performer or company) without prior announcement, following a dispute with MasterCard and Visa. It is unclear whether accounts will be able to retain content if they go through the verification procedure. MindGeek, the owners of PornHub, own a number of other large sites, such as YouPorn, PornHub, Xtube, Tube8 and Thumbzilla, that may be the next to look out for.<br />
* ca. October 9: {{URL|https://downloads.dell.com/|downloads.dell.com}}, Dell's "backup" download site for drivers & Co. in case their (JS-laden) {{URL|https://www.dell.com/support/|support site}} broke.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200929003215/https://www.dell.com/support/article/en-us/SLN321834]</ref> As of 2022-09-17, it is still online, although it JS-redirects to the JS hell site.<br />
* February 4: The {{URL|https://mystonline.com/forums/|Myst Online}} and {{URL|http://forums.cyan.com/|Cyan}} forums went read-only.<ref>{{URL|1=https://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=29240}}</ref> Both were to have shut down completely on 16 June 2020 in favor of static archives; in fact, the Cyan forums remained online until March 2021 (it's unclear whether any official static archives are available) and the Myst Online forums are still online as of 2022-09-17.<br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* Unknown <s>December 11</s>: [[Twitter]] will begin purging inactive accounts.<ref>[[:File:Twitter december 2019.png]]</ref><ref>[[:File:Twitter december 2019 2.png]]</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/MattNavarra/status/1199264642264190976}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/11/26/20984328/twitter-removing-inactive-accounts-usernames-available-date}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1199459588594176000}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1199777312054493184}}</ref><br />
* October 10: {{URL|https://splinternews.com/|Splinter News}} (G/O Media) ceases publication. The future of the website is unclear.<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/splinter-news-shutting-down}}</ref> Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* September 20: Mozilla software community site [http://mozillazine.org/ mozillaZine]'s admin kerz announces that the site will be frozen.<ref>{{URL|1=http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3055133}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3059877}}</ref> The forums and wiki are both still online and functional as of 2022-09-11; however, the admin is unreachable and the domain expires on 2026-09-06.<ref>{{URL|1=http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=3067832}}</ref><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://www.supertopo.com/|SuperTopo}}'s {{URL|http://supertopo.com/climbing/forum.php|forums}}, with over 2.2 million posts, went read-only.<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=3198199}}</ref>. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* March 30: goo.gl, [[Google]]'s URL shortening service, was frozen, but existing shortlinks will continue to resolve.<ref>{{URL|https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* October 1: Large Manosphere blog [[Return of Kings]] with 5,800 articles and an active comments section is [http://www.returnofkings.com/195790/return-of-kings-is-going-on-hiatus going on hiatus]. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* September 14: [https://www.racked.com/ Racked] ceased publication but will continue serving the archives for now.<ref>{{URL|https://www.racked.com/2018/9/14/17661866/racked-goodbye}}</ref> Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
* September onwards: [[ZAM Network]] is shutting down a variety of websites since September.<br />
* Date unknown: [https://blogs.harvard.edu/ Harvard's web blog service] is removing blogs by people not currently at Harvard.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.harvard.edu/blog/2018/07/13/upcoming-changes/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* October 26: [[Xoom]]: websites frozen, only serving static files since. Probably preparing for closure. Still online as of 2022-09-11.<br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: Pirate Bay image hosting site "Bayimg" returns after it shutdown in the raid. However, staff announced that the site would only be up for a week.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/pirate-bays-image-hosting-site-bayimg-returns-for-a-bit-160425/}}</ref> As of 2022-09-11, the site is still online.<br />
* January 1: AutoHotKey's older, IPBoards based forum has been made read-only, in favor of their new forums. Users were migrated but forum posts were not. <ref>{{url|https://autohotkey.com/board/topic/149716-ip-boards-decommission/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://ahkscript.org/foundation/history.html}}</ref> As of 2022-09-11, the boards were still online.<br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2023 ===<br />
* July 14: {{URL|https://futurequest.net/|FutureQuest Inc.}}, a web hoster<br />
* July 12: [[半次元|半次元 (Banciyuan)]], a Chinese [[wikipedia:ACG (subculture)|ACG]] community<ref>{{URL|https://bcy.net/item/detail/7243752692219124791}}</ref><br />
* June 30: [[ЯRUS]], a Russian social media site launched in 2020 announced it would be closing its doors on June 30, 2023 at 15:00 Moscow time (12:00 UTC).<ref>{{URL|https://yarus.ru/post/1989728469}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://bedrockautomation.com/|Bedrock Automation}}, an industrial automation hardware manufacturer, shut down its website following discontinuation of customer support in December 2022.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://placeimg.com/|PlaceIMG}}, an image placeholder generator service, shut down. All served images were watermarked with a shutdown notice as of June 13.<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/|Dwango JP News}}<ref>{{URL|https://news.dwango.jp/notify_termination}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/language|Microsoft Language Portal}}<br />
* June 29: [[LINE BLOG]]<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/official/archives/1062469364.html}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|https://bit.io|bit.io}} (database hoster) was acquired, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.bit.io/whats-next-for-bit-io-joining-databricks-ace9a40bce0d}}</ref> Database owners can dump their databases and restore them elsewhere.<br />
* June 28: {{URL|https://game.nicovideo.jp/atsumaru/|Game Atsumaru}}, part of [[Niconico]], shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/183352.html}}</ref> Creators have been given the ability to download their games. A replacement game hosting service was to launch in April.<br />
* June 27: {{URL|https://www.irl.com/|IRL}} a social network/instant messaging platform went offline at 12 PM PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/26/irl-shut-down-fake-users/}}</ref><br />
* June 27: [[Tiki]]<br />
* June 21: {{URL|https://www.artdoxa.com/|ARTDOXA}}<br />
* June 20: {{URL|https://forum.torproject.net/|Tor Project forums}} were migrated to a self-hosted [[Discourse]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/tor-project-forum-migration/}}</ref><br />
* June 16: [[Egloos]], a Korean blogging platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://ebc.egloos.com/8780}}</ref> Former users were given the option to request a data export until December 18.<ref>{{URL|https://egloosbackup.egloos.com/}}</ref><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://home.social/|home.social}}, a [[Mastodon]] instance<ref>{{URL|https://home.social/@admin/110419949340787839}}</ref><br />
* June 5: {{URL|https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokemon-tcg/play-online|Pokémon Trading Card Game Online}}<ref>{{URL|https://support.pokemon.com/hc/en-us/articles/4406895467668-Pok%C3%A9mon-TCG-Online-Sunset-Information}}</ref><br />
* June 2: {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en/games|Waypoint}}, a video game journalism website owned by Vice shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/patrickklepek/status/1651698338687795200}}</ref><br />
* "May": {{URL|https://gimplearn.net/}}, a forum for the GIMP image-editing program will not be renewed "sometime in May" <ref>{{URL|1=https://gimplearn.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=3367}}</ref><br />
* May 31: {{URL|https://hl2dm.net/}}, a site and forum dedicated to Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, closed.<ref>{{URL|https://hl2dm.net/comment.php?comment.news.83}}</ref><br />
* May 31: {{URL|https://splice.com/features/studio|Splice Studio}}, a Google-Docs-like cloud backup, versioning, and collaboration service used by music producers to store and share their projects, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://splice.com/blog/studio-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* May 9: {{URL|https://mastodon.lol|mastodon.lol}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://mastodon.lol/@nathan/109836633022272265}}</ref><br />
* May 8: Github Team Discussions were deprecated.<ref>{{URL|https://github.blog/changelog/2023-02-08-sunset-notice-team-discussions}}</ref> The API will be deprecated at April 30 or at some later point in time.<br />
* May 8, 00:00 UTC: {{URL|https://spinrilla.com/|Spinrilla}}, following a legal battle with music labels<ref>{{URL|https://torrentfreak.com/spinrilla-will-shut-down-and-pay-50m-piracy-damages-to-music-labels-230504/}}</ref><br />
* April/May: {{URL|https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/forum-closure-fa-discord-coming-soon.1682702|Fur Affinity Forums}} went read-only on January 1 after 17 years of operation. It was deleted around the end of April, having been announced for the first quarter of 2023.<ref>{{URL|https://forums.furaffinity.net/threads/forum-closure-fa-discord-coming-soon.1682702/page-9#post-7378589}}</ref><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://www.frozencpu.com/|FrozenCPU}}<ref>https://www.frozencpu.com/news.html?id=j2QSyCw6</ref><br />
* April 30: {{URL|https://forum.telefonino.net/|forum.telefonino.net}}, the forum of an Italian website focused on technology and smartphones, shut down by 2023-04-30.<br />
* April 30: [[Enjin]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.enjin.com/forums/m/10826/viewthread/33743439-announcing-retirement-enjin-website-builder}}</ref><br />
* April 26: {{URL|http://bookdepository.com/|Book Depository}}, an online bookseller owned by Amazon, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.bookdepository.com/closure}}</ref><br />
* April 25: {{URL|https://www.ubisoft.com/forums/|Ubisoft Forums}}, having migrated from the previous forum software only a year prior, shut down in favour of Discord.<ref>{{URL|https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/connectivity-and-performance/article/future-of-the-ubisoft-forums/000104545}}</ref><br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://www.tianya.cn|天涯社区 (Tianya Club)}},one of the most popular Internet forums in China, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3218568/pioneering-internet-portal-tianyacn-goes-dark-triggering-nostalgia-among-chinese-netizens}}</ref><br />
* April 20: {{URL|https://paper.li|Paper.li}}, a homepage and newsletter hosting service, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://blog.paper.li/2023/03/16/saying-goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* April 15: {{URL|https://www.pinoyexchange.com/|PinoyExchange}}, a Filipino forum site, shut down. <ref>{{URL|https://www.pinoyexchange.com/discussion/961146/pinoyexchange-announcement}}</ref><br />
* April 15: {{URL|https://grex.org/|Grex}} shut down: "The Grex system will be permanently shut down and cease operation on April 15, 2023. This is due to lack of staff support and other reasons. See ya.". Hosts user websites on ~tilde URLs, there is an {{URL|https://grex.org/users.xhtml|index of user websites}}.<br />
* April 15: [[RootsWeb]]'s {{URL|https://wc.rootsweb.com/|WorldConnect}}<br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://gamerch.com/|Gamerch}} deleted all old wikis on subdomains<ref>{{URL|https://gamerch.com/help/entry/536268}}</ref><br />
* April 10: {{URL|https://forums.gearsofwar.com/|Gears of War Forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forums.gearsofwar.com/t/sunsetting-gears-of-war-forums/67435}}</ref><br />
* April 2: [[Scripting Helpers]] decided nobody needs to ask for help anymore. "The current website will be replaced with a static version without any dynamic features."<ref>https://scriptinghelpers.org/blog/sunsetting-scripting-helpers</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.bboard.de/|BBoard.de}}, a free German forums host<ref>{{URL|https://www.bboard.de/infos.php}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.xa-media.com/forum/news-ankuendigungen-f1/bboard-wird-mit-ende-maerz-2023-eingestellt-t12669.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: The GitLab instance {{URL|https://git.codecoop.org/|codecoop}} shut down.<ref>Notice on blog post {{URL|https://so36.net/news/codecoop-migration.html#en}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://darksky.net/|Dark Sky}} shut down its website and API.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.darksky.net/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Yahoo Japan's {{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/|GYAO}}<ref>{{URL|https://gyao.yahoo.co.jp/thankyou}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.halowaypoint.com/|Halo Waypoint Forums}} were read-only from March 20 and shut down on March 31. Announcement: {{URL|https://forums.halowaypoint.com/t/sunsetting-waypoint-forums/566065}}<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://live.line.me/|LINE LIVE}} and {{URL|https://viewing.live.line.me/|LINE LIVE-VIEWING}} were discontinued.<ref>{{URL|https://lineblog.me/livepress/archives/13318746.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://source.codeaurora.org/quic/|QUIC repositories}} (Qualcomm Innovation Center Inc.) on Code Aurora was deleted following their (allegedly poor, lossy) migration to {{URL|https://git.codelinaro.org/explore/|CodeLinaro}} a year earlier. The entirety of source.codeaurora.org was taken down, though only mirrors were remaining apart from the QUIC repositories.<br />
* March 31: [[Zippyshare.com]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://blog.zippyshare.com/?p=1211}}</ref><br />
* March 27: Nintendo 3DS and Wii U eShops shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/57847}}</ref><br />
* March 27: Shutterfly Share Sites<ref>{{URL|https://support.shutterfly.com/s/article/share-site-closure}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{URL|https://www.sportsshooter.com|SportsShooter}}, a sports photography website, shut down after being online since 2002-06-21<ref>{{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20230314010850/https://www.sportsshooter.com/news/2789}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: {{URL|https://www.wirelessadvisor.com/|WirelessAdvisor.com}} along with its {{URL|https://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/|forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forums.wirelessadvisor.com/threads/wirelessadvisor-will-shut-down-on-3-15-23.97515/}}</ref><br />
* March 10: AltspaceVR<ref>{{URL|https://altvr.com/sunset/}}</ref><br />
* March 8: {{URL|https://www.popjam.com/|Popjam}}<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/11b3hlp/popjam_is_shutting_down_on_march_8th/}}</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://keybase.pub/|Keybase.pub}} shut down. Content is still accessible through the Keybase Filesystem.<br />
* March 1: The Gitea instance {{URL|https://devheroes.codes/|Devheros}} was replaced by a different server software.<ref>Notice on pages, e.g. {{URL|https://devheroes.codes/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: {{URL|http://terminal-boredom.com/|Terminal Boredom}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.instagram.com/p/Cok9x3yuunn/}}: 'Attention former Termbos. The entire site ( archives/blog/termboard/everything) will be permanently going offline at the end of the month. The message board is back open if there's anything there anyone would like to recover/save. Same goes for anything in the reviews/content archives. I'll have a backup saved for posterity, but I think it's time to put Terminal Boredom to sleep. Thanks everyone who was a part of it.', posted by Rich K (@termbo) on 2023-02-13.</ref><br />
* February 28: {{URL|http://yeeshkul.com/|Yeeshkul}}, a Pink Floyd fan community that had existed since 2006<ref>{{URL|http://yeeshkul.com/forum/showthread.php?50908-Yeeshkul-closing}}</ref><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.whereisthegooglecar.com/}}, a website that allowed users to post sightings of the Google car.<ref>{{URL|https://www.whereisthegooglecar.com/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: {{URL|https://www.mosaicscience.com|Mosaic}}, a journalism site for long scientific articles<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/christinagiles/status/1628704239861002240}}</ref><br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://forums.tcm.com/|Turner Classic Movies Message Boards}} After nearly 20 years, it froze content on Nov 30, 2022 and closed completely Feb 15, 2023.<ref>{{URL|https://forums.tcm.com/topic/271979-tcm-message-boards-sunsetting-in-november-2022/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|http://forum.halomaps.org/|Halo Maps Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/HaloCEmaps/status/1614852664570806275}}</ref>, although a static dump with partial data (e.g. usernames) removed and different URLs is staying online at least for the time being.<br />
* February 1: [[Pandora.tv]], a video hosting site.<ref>{{URL|http://www.pandora.tv/company/notice/view/1/1176}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://www.stripperweb.com/|Stripperweb}} (aka Stripper Web Exotic Dancer Community)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://huds.tf/|HUDS.TF}}<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://web.lobi.co/|Lobi}}<ref>{{URL|https://web.lobi.co/blog/mention/5e0408a013a095478d98de42843d67f14a61de32}}</ref><br />
* January 31: WebryBlog shut down and access to all blogs updated since January 18, 2022 ended. <ref>{{URL|https://support.at.webry.info/202209/article_faq_054.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[eOldal|eOldal.hu]], a Hungarian web hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.eoldal.hu/cikkek/nyitooldal/a-weboldal-keszitesi-szolgaltatas-megszuntetese.html}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.r18.com/|R18}} shut down.<br />
* January 28: {{URL|https://www.costcophotocenter.com/|Costco Photo Center}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.costcophotocenter.com/docs/en-us/Shutterfly-Costco-FAQs.pdf}}</ref>, {{URL|https://www.costcophotocentre.ca/|Costco Photo Centre Canada}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.costcophotocentre.ca/docs/en-ca/Shutterfly-Costco-EN.pdf}}</ref>, {{URL|https://www.costcodvd.com/|Costco DVD}} and {{URL|https://www.costcobusinessprinting.com/|Costco Business Printing}}<br />
* January 23: {{URL|https://forum.mywot.com/|Web of Trust (MyWOT) Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.mywot.com/general-discussion-f3/forum-closure-t99713.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: [[Onlyfiles]]<br />
* January 18: [[Revue]], a newsletter service bought by Twitter in early 2021<ref>{{URL|http://help.getrevue.co/en/articles/6819675-we-ve-made-the-difficult-decision-to-shut-down-revue}}</ref><br />
* January 18: [[Google Stadia]]<br />
* January 11: {{URL|https://tweakblogs.net}}<ref>{{URL|https://tweakers.net/plan/3726/we-nemen-afscheid-van-tweakblogs.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_message/73986918#73986918}}</ref><br />
* January: The {{URL|https://bfriends.brigitte.de/foren/|forums}} for Brigitte, a German women's magazine, went read-only on 2021-12-14.<ref>{{URL|https://www.brigitte.de/informationen-zur-schliessung-der-brigitte-community-13097262.html}}</ref> No plans for deletion were announced, but the forums were deleted in January 2023.<br />
* January 1: {{URL|https://sourcehut.org/|SourceHut}} removed "cryptocurrency- or blockchain-related projects"<ref>{{URL|https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-10-31-tos-update-cryptocurrency/}}</ref><br />
* January ('start of [2023]'): {{URL|https://forums.webosnation.com/|webOS Nation Forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forums.webosnation.com/webosnation-com-site-news-feedback-help/332906-sunsetting-webos-nation-forums.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* End of December: {{URL|https://geolog.mydns.jp/|GeoLog Project}}, a website for collection projects, such as Geocities in Japan, shut down. The GeoLog Project was previously thrown into Archivebot, but had been suspended for some reason (id:7dv1ztme3pksk96o7m168n1l3). Also, there were some pages that cannot be reached from the top page and can be reached by adding geolog.mydns.jp/ to the head of the URL list like {{URL|https://geolog.mydns.jp/maho/all_20200326.txt|this}}.<br />
* December 31: [[BuzzVideo]]<br />
* December 31: {{URL|http://kiwi6.com}}<ref>https://www.petercai.com/why-kiwi6-shut-down/</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://forum.lacartoonerie.com/|La Cartoonerie}}, a French Flash animation hosting community<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.lacartoonerie.com/showthread.php?tid=3934&pid=152169#pid152169}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://trythatsoap.com/|TryThatSoap}}, Soap information. Owner says they will shut down December 31st.<br />
* December 31: [[V Live]]<br />
* December 6: {{URL|https://www.hellmoo.org/}}, a MUD/MOO, associated with one of the very first (LambdaMOO), described on http://archive.today/2022.12.08-211249/https://muds.fandom.com/wiki/HellMOO<br />
* December 1: {{URL|https://mastodon.technology/|mastodon.technology}}, a Mastodon instance that ran for 5 years, closed down permanently.<br />
* November 30: One of the bigger remaining Czech freehosts, [[Sweb.cz]], closed down by the end of November. {{URL|https://www.zive.cz/clanky/bezplatny-webhosting-od-seznamu-konci-na-presun-stranek-z-swebu-jinam-mate-cas-do-konce-listopadu/sc-3-a-218869/default.aspx|Article on Živě.cz}})<br />
* November 30: {{URL|http://blog.siol.net/|Blogos}}, a Slovenian blogging service operated by the ISP Telekom Slovenia, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.blog.uporabnastran.si/2022/11/20/siol-ukinja-bloge-blogos-blog-siol-net-siol-bo-bloge-na-domeni-siol-net-ukinil-30-11-2022}}</ref><br />
* November 30: {{URL|https://www.uchinokomato.me/|uchinokomato.me}}, a Japanese character art site, announced on August 18 that they will be shutting down service.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220912084205/https://www.uchinokomato.me/closing</ref><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.crunchyroll.com/forum|Crunchyroll forums}} and other "legacy website features" going away. "Launched in 2006, the forums have had over a million forum threads created and countless memories made!"<ref>{{URL|https://www.crunchyroll.com/forumtopic-1076652/announcement-forum-legacy-features-going-away-on-november-1st-2022}}</ref><br />
* October 30: {{URL|https://www.programmableweb.com/|ProgrammableWeb}} shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20221010220313/https://www.programmableweb.com/news/programmableweb-being-retired/brief/2022/10/10</ref> The site started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.mulesoft.com/programmableweb}} in January or February 2023, and the domain stopped resolving in July 2023.<br />
* October 12: The webpage host {{URL|https://www.mbnet.fi/|MBNet}}<ref>Homepage, viewed October 9, translated with Google Translate</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://cakes.mu|cakes.mu}}, a Japanese content distribution website (similar to Tumblr or Medium) shut down on August 31st and went read-only on July 31st<ref>{{URL|https://cakes.mu/posts/35370}}</ref><br />
* <s>August 15</s> August 31: {{URL|https://publiclab.org/|Public Lab}} shut down two of its sites: {{URL|https://mapknitter.org/|MapKnitter}}<ref>{{URL|https://publiclab.org/wiki/mapknitter}}</ref> and {{URL|https://spectralworkbench.org/|SpectralWorkbench}}<ref>{{URL|https://publiclab.org/wiki/spectral-workbench}}</ref><br />
* August 26: {{URL|https://www.lexico.com/|Lexico}}, a dictionary site powered by Oxford University Press (OUP) dictionaries, closed and started redirecting to Dictionary.com<ref>{{URL|https://www.lexico.com/}}</ref><br />
* August: {{URL|https://tvwise.co.uk|TVwise.co.uk}}, a blog/website covering UK/US TV, closed on July 28 and went offline sometime in August (rather than staying online for another two months as announced)<ref>{{URL|https://www.tvwise.co.uk/2022/07/after-11-years-tvwise-closes-its-doors/}}</ref><br />
* August: {{URL|https://strawpoll.me}}, a quick poll making website, closed "due to low usage"<br />
* August 1: {{URL|https://hashbase.io|Hashbase}}<ref>{{URL|https://hashbase.io/about}}</ref><br />
* July 19: Gearbox Software took their {{URL|https://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/|official forums}} offline, after putting them into Read-Only mode previously, with a 30-day window to "save any content you want to keep before it is closed".<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.reading.am/|Reading}}, a site for sharing web content its users are reading<ref>{{URL|https://writing.reading.am/post/685957022762582016/sunset}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://vkatsu.jp/|Vkatsu}}, a VR model creation tool, shut down its service.<ref>{{URL|https://vkatsu.jp/v%E3%82%AB%E3%83%84%E3%82%B5%E3%83%BC%E3%83%93%E3%82%B9%E7%B5%82%E4%BA%86%E3%81%AE%E3%81%8A%E7%9F%A5%E3%82%89%E3%81%9B/}}</ref> Vkatsu requests to delete the VR models created by Vkatsu and posted on other sites after the service is shut down.<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://www.hispachan.org/|Hispachan}}, a Spanish-language imageboard, will shut down (after going read-only on May 31).<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Hispachan/status/1531053620694659072}}</ref><br />
* June 3: {{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/|Dream.In.Code}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/421898-dreamincode-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://www.furiffic.com/|Furiffic}}, a furry website, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://web.archive.org/web/20220620190249/https://www.furiffic.com/}}</ref><br />
* May 31<ref>Actually stayed online until at least November</ref>: {{URL|http://anynowhere.com/|AnyNowhere}}, a bulletin board from the early 2000s<ref>{{URL|1=http://anynowhere.com/bb/posts.php?t=412&p=105}}</ref><br />
* May 31: {{URL|https://blogos.com/|BLOGOS}} a Japanese news site stopped updating its website on March 31.<ref>{{URL|https://blogos.com/feature/blogos_close/}}</ref><br />
* May 31: {{URL|https://www.goat.at/|g.o.a.t}} Japanese blog service will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.goat.at/information/20211124.html}}</ref>Subdomain of each websites are consists of "*.goat.me".<br />
* May 13: The [[Win Raid Forum]] shuts down.<br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://japanese.engadget.com/|Engadget Japan}} and {{URL|https://jp.techcrunch.com/|TechCrunch Japan}} shut down but stopped updating on March 31.<ref>{{URL|https://www.beboundless.jp/press/corporate-announcement-02-15-2022}}</ref><br />
* May 1: {{URL|https://www.alexa.com|Alexa.com}} will be retired.<ref>{{URL|https://support.alexa.com/hc/en-us/articles/4410503838999|We will be retiring Alexa.com on May 1, 2022}}</ref><br />
* April 27: {{URL|https://friends.excite.co.jp/|excite friends}}, a Japanese community service shut down at 15:00 (JST).<ref>{{URL|1=https://friends.excite.co.jp/notice/?type=info&no=172}}</ref><br />
* April 14: {{URL|https://murobbs.muropaketti.com/}}, a Finnish-language forum run with Xenforo, [https://muropaketti.com/yleinen/murobbs-sulkeminen/ is closed by its parent company].<br />
* April 13: {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|Bethesda Forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://bethesda.net/en/article/3nf1F08LHgUEmSt7EqA9ru/bethesda-net-forums-to-be-sunset}} — "Starting on May 24, we will begin the process of closing the forums first by turning Categories to Read-Only. You will no longer be able to post on the forums, but you will have access to all your posts and see all Categories as you normally would. You will have 30 days to save any post contents you wish to keep once the forums are closed. On July 6, we will start archiving smaller, less populated Categories. At this time, you will no longer be able to access these Categories. You will be able to continue conversations on our official Bethesda Discord Server and various game-related Servers."</ref> This will also remove comments on Bethesda.net Mods.<ref>{{URL|https://bethesda.net/en/article/3nf1F08LHgUEmSt7EqA9ru/bethesda-net-forums-to-be-sunset}} — "Does this impact comments on Bethesda.net Mods? Yes, mod comments are powered by the forums, and will also be shut down. Authors are encouraged to list their social channels or personal Discord server in their mod descriptions. This way, they can continue to engage with players in their preferred online spaces. General mod discussion is welcome on our official Discord servers."</ref> Mod comments disappeared early (before 21 June); most of the forums had vanished by 8 July, but some parts remain as of 14 November.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.meta.org/|Meta}}, a biomedical research discovery platform.<ref>{{URL|https://cziscience.medium.com/meta-transition-5f66b1fae475}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://listserv.educause.edu/|EDUCAUSE listserv}}<br />
* March 31: {{URL|http://2style.net/support-end.html|2Style}}, a Japanese web host, shuts down all its free and some of its paid hosting.<ref>{{URL|http://2style.net/support-end.html}} through Google Translate</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://stackoverflow.com/jobs|StackOverflow Jobs}} and its Developer Story companion<ref>{{URL|https://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/415293/sunsetting-jobs-developer-story}}</ref><br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://www.webcrow.jp/|WEBCROW}}, a Japanese web hosting service shut down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.netowl.jp/news_detail.php?view_id=2886}}</ref> Some people are working on collecting URL lists {{URL|https://geolog.mydns.jp/webcrow/|here}}.<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://forums.ubisoft.com/|Ubisoft Forums}}<br />
* March 28 <s>March 21</s>: {{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/|Chowhound}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.chowhound.com/post/final-goodbye-chowhound-1098935}}</ref><br />
* March 22 <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/|Duolingo forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.duolingo.com/comment/55930597}}</ref><br />
* March 14: {{URL|https://switter.at/|Switter}}, a social networking site for sex workers, shut down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kb7vx/switter-the-twitter-for-sex-workers-is-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* March 13: {{URL|https://www.origamishop.us/|origamishop.us}}, the Americas Origami Shop.<ref>An email to customers states, "The website will remain active until Sunday, March 13, and starting March 14, visitors will be redirected to the robust European store for all of your origami shopping needs (www.origami-shop.com)."</ref><br />
* March 11: Feneas {{URL|https://talk.feneas.org/|Discourse}} and {{URL|https://friendica.feneas.org/|Friendica}}<ref>https://git.feneas.org/feneas/association/-/raw/master/comms/dissolving-the-association-2022-01-09.txt</ref><br />
* March 10: [[Radikal|Radikal.ru]], a Russian image host, shut down.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220303113145/https://radikal.ru/</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|http://www.bullfreeware.com/|Bull Freeware}}, a collection of open-source packages for AIX machines<br />
* March 1: Feneas {{URL|https://matrix.feneas.org|Matrix}}, {{URL|https://git.feneas.org|Gitlab}}, {{URL|https://searx.feneas.org|Searx}}, {{URL|https://pad.feneas.org|Etherpad}}, {{URL|https://cloud.feneas.org|Nextcloud}}, and {{URL|https://joindiaspora.com/|Diaspora}} (Joindiaspora) instances. ("On or soon afer" that date for everything but Diaspora) <ref>https://git.feneas.org/feneas/association/-/raw/master/comms/dissolving-the-association-2022-01-09.txt</ref><ref>https://joindiaspora.com/posts/f605e81053c3013ae6b9002590d8e506</ref><br />
* March 1: {{URL|https://sheezy.art/|Sheezy.art}}, a site hosting user art, shut down. <ref>{{URL|1=https://sheezy.art/news/updates/2022-01-03/sheezy-art-is-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* February 9: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, shut down having become read-only on July 5, 2020.<br />
* February 2 (Announced for January 31): [[Pinger]], a Polish blog host, shut down.<ref>Notice on homepage</ref><br />
* End of January: [http://score.royalflare.net RoyalFlare], a popular Touhou Project game replay site up since 2007, [https://twitter.com/Plasmo_STG/status/1477967087381487618 stopped uploads] on January 3rd and "all contents will be deleted at the last day of January 2022", which seems to have happened.<br />
* January 31: Humble's video game subscription service discontinues Linux and macOS support<ref>{{URL|https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/01/humble-subscription-service-is-dumping-mac-linux-access-in-18-days/}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://shop.plaza.rakuten.co.jp/|店長の部屋Plus+}}, a rakuten shop blog site will shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://foodtribe.com/|FoodTribe}}<ref>{{URL|https://foodtribe.com/p/dear-foodtribe-community-Wnzt6q-1SeSbm6JDMBYrqQ}}</ref><br />
* January 31: All [[TechnologyGuide]] sites and forums<ref>{{URL|http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/all-technologyguide-forums-will-close-jan-31-2022.837524/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/threads/all-technologyguide-forums-will-close-jan-31-2022.76126/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://forum.brighthand.com/threads/all-technologyguide-forums-will-close-jan-31-2022.293929/}}</ref><br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://yuetwanlauseng.com/|粵韻流聲}}, a Cantonese Chinese-language radio forum, shut down.<br />
* January 28<ref>{{URL|https://hackint.logs.kiska.pw/archiveteam-bs/20220128#c308947}}</ref> (publicly announced to be an unspecified time in January): {{URL|https://forums.mapletip.com/|MapleTip forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://forums.mapletip.com/index.php?/topic/143030-mapletip-forums-to-be-shut-down-in-january-2022/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: {{URL|https://forum.chip.de/}}, a German technology forum, went read-only and removed almost all usernames.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.chip.de/discussion/1905133/chip-forum-kuenftig-als-read-only-version}}</ref><br />
* January 5: [[BlackBerry World]] shut down.<br />
* January 3: {{URL|https://www.onlinekosten.de/forum/}}, a German internet and telecom forum, shut down (after more than 20 years).<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.onlinekosten.de/forum/announcement.php?f=146&a=16}}</ref><br />
* January 3: {{URL|https://www.router-forum.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.router-forum.de/forum-news/in-eigener-sache-router-forum-de-wird-eingestellt.t75087/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: Reddit Gifts was taken down after its final gift exchange.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/nw2hs6/sunsetting_secret_santa_and_reddit_gifts/}}</ref>.<br />
* December 31: [[iTunesU]] <ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.project-imas.com/|project-imas}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.project-imas.com/index.php/topic,2707.0.html}}</ref> will shut down. The forums have been made read-only as of October 12, while the wiki was made read-only on November 1. As of November 12 the wiki data has been used to set up a new wiki at {{URL|https://project-imas.wiki/Main_Page}}.<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.readmore.de/}}, a German esports site (owned by 4Players GmbH), will shut down.<ref name="readmore.de">{{URL|https://www.readmore.de/news/163662-tbd/}}</ref><br />
* December 30: {{URL|https://shoutengine.com/|ShoutEngine}}, a podcast hoster<br />
* December 29: {{URL|https://www.thestandnews.com/|The Stand News}} was shut down in less than a day of announcement due to Hong Kong police raids and arrest of key people.<br />
* November 10 until December 13: [[YouTube]] gradually [[YouTube#Removal_of_public_video_dislikes_.28December_2021.29|removes dislike counts]]<ref>{{URL|1=https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-to-youtube-dislike-counts?hl=en}}</ref><br />
* December 7: Royal Games, website owned by King (creator of Candy Crush) will be shutting down.<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.royalgames.com/community/fool_entry.jsp?language=en&fid=9593}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=http://www.royalgames.com/support/browse_faq.jsp?categoryId=142}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-10-22-king-games-portal-which-birthed-candy-crush-to-close-after-18-years}}</ref><br />
* End of November: [[Channel 9]] from Microsoft will be partially migrated over to Microsoft Learn <ref>{{URL|https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/learntvannouncement}}</ref><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://www.cubetutor.com/|CubeTutor.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://cubetutor.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/the-end-step/}}</ref><br />
* November 1: {{URL|https://onlocationvacations.com|OnlocationVacations.com}}<ref>{{URL|https://onlocationvacations.com/2021/10/14/friday-october-15-filming-locations/}}</ref>. Website closed down, Twitter account remains active. <br />
* October 31: the Flash and Unity game host {{URL|http://www.fastswf.com|FastSWF}} shut down.<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com|Magic: Legends}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playmagiclegends.com/en/news-article/11490313}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://elitesquadgame.com|Tom Clancy's Elite Squad}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/tcelitesquad/status/1417817712991027201}}</ref><br />
* October 30<ref>Announced for 1 November, suddenly disappeared two days early</ref> <s>November 1</s>: [[DemoDrop]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@demodrop/demodrop-will-shut-down-f70900fdee4f}}</ref><br />
* October 22 <s>ca October 13</s>: {{URL|https://forums.mtgarena.com/|MTG Arena forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/magic-digital/mtg-arena-announcements-october-06-2021}}</ref><br />
* October 21<ref>Announced for July, vanished on 2021-10-21</ref> <s>July</s>: [[CodePlex]]'s read-only archives will be shut down.<ref>Banner on {{URL|https://archive.codeplex.com/}} as of 2021-02-02, added in late January per Wayback Machine snapshots</ref><br />
* October 21: Weather Underground discontinued its webcam hosting and deleted the webcam data.<ref>{{URL|1=https://support.weather.com/s/article/Webcam-hosting-service-is-discontinued-effective-October-21-2021?language=en_US}}</ref><br />
* October 15<ref>Actually shut down sometime between October 22 and November 14</ref>: {{URL|https://peertube.social/|Peertube.social}} shut down.<br />
* October 13<ref>Announced for 5 November with public API access, then suddenly shut down early</ref> <s>November 5</s>: Social news aggregation site {{URL|https://ruqqus.com/|Ruqqus}}<ref>{{URL|https://ruqqus.com/+Ruqqus/post/dns3/end-of-an-era}}</ref><br />
* October 12: [[YouTube]] removed the all remaining Discussion tabs on channel pages, affecting channels with 1,000 or fewer subscribers as well as channels which have reached more than 1,000 subscribers within the past week.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/125117248/expanding-community-posts-to-channels-with-500-subscribers-and-removing-the-discussion-tab}}</ref><br />
* October 7: [[Niconico]] shut down its blog service [[Niconico#Blomaga|Blomaga]]<ref>{{URL|https://site.nicovideo.jp/ch/userblomaga_thanks/}}</ref><br />
* September 20 <s>"after September"</s>: [[YouTube]] will discontinue video attributions pages, which are believed to be the last page remaining on the site that used the old, pre-polymer layout.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2797468}}</ref><br />
* September<ref>Announced for August, went into 'Maintenance' on 13 or 14 September and later started returning a closure notice page</ref> <s>August</s>: Supercell, the company behind Clash of Clans and other mobile games, shuttered its {{URL|https://forum.supercell.com/|forums}}, having made them read-only in June.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.supercell.com/showthread.php/1953694-Important-Announcement}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://forum.supercell.com/showthread.php/1956795-Goodbye-Forums-Farewell-Thread}}</ref><br />
* September<ref>Between [https://web.archive.org/web/20210913032536/https://www.freenas.org/freenas-vs-xigmanas/ 13 September] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20210918232954/http://freenas.org:80/features 18 September]</ref> <s>July</s>: {{URL|https://www.freenas.org/|FreeNAS}} is subsumed into {{URL|https://www.truenas.com/|TrueNAS}}, and its website is shut down.<ref>Javascript popup on {{URL|https://www.freenas.org/about/features/}} (or any other non-home page)</ref><br />
* September 13: [[Google Drive]] files shared before this date via link-sharing became inaccessible except to logged-in users who have already viewed the file.<ref>https://support.google.com/a/answer/10685032</ref><ref name="verge link">https://www.theverge.com/google/2021/6/23/22548007/youtube-google-drive-security-link-sharing</ref><br />
* September 10 (09:00 UTC<ref>{{URL|https://community.eurogamer.net/post/372333/12955056/}}</ref>): Forum of {{URL|https://community.eurogamer.net/|Eurogamer.net}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.eurogamer.net/thread/372333}}</ref><br />
* September 6: {{URL|https://www.23andmeforums.com/|23andMe Forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://anthrogenica.com/showthread.php?24536-The-23andMe-Forums-will-be-shut-down-on-September-6-2021}}</ref><br />
* September 5: {{URL|https://www.xtube.com/XTube}}, a porn site owned by MindGeek<ref>{{URL|https://www.xtube.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* September 1: {{URL|https://mods.io/}}, a small-scale Minecraft mod hosting platform which never left beta.<br />
* Late August to Mid-October: {{URL|http://furnation.ru/|FurNation.ru}}, a Russian furry community that has existed since 2006, finally died. Its shutdown was originally announced for 1 November 2020<ref>{{URL|http://bert.furnation.ru/journal/49011/}}</ref>; a community effort to save the site<ref>{{URL|http://jade.furnation.ru/journal/49054/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://bert.furnation.ru/journal/49057/}}</ref> managed to raise enough money to keep it running for almost another year<ref>{{URL|http://stormwind.furnation.ru/journal/49063/}}</ref>, but ultimately could not afford to repair the server.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20211019011521/https://furnation.ru/]</ref><br />
* August 31: {{URL|http://myths.e2bn.org/index.php|E2BN Myths and Legends}}, an educational website with various myths and legends and their supporting animations<ref>{{URL|http://myths.e2bn.org/index.php}}</ref><br />
* August 20: {{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/|FloydHub}}, AI platform for data scientists<ref>{{URL|https://www.floydhub.com/shutdown}}</ref><br />
* August<ref>Announced for 30 April, but website stayed online without changes until August</ref> <s>April 30</s>: {{URL|https://www.jexia.com/|Jexia}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.jexia.com/en/faq/}}</ref><br />
* ca. July 30: The Center for Election Science's {{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/|forums}} is planned to become read-only and will shut down around 1 Jan 2021<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/archiving-the-forum-july-30th/697}}</ref>. Discussions about transferring it to the community instead<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/alternatives-to-the-ces-forum/699}}</ref> failed<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/new-home-for-this-forum-community/720}}</ref>. A successor forum by the community is being launched at {{URL|http://votingtheory.com/}}.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/replacement-forums-will-be-at-votingtheory-com/757}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/new-forum-launch-project/788}}</ref> The {{URL|https://groups.google.com/d/forum/electionscience|Center's Google Group}} was also deleted.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/new-home-for-this-forum-community/720/3}}</ref><br />
* "mid-2020": [[Microsoft]] will retired[[MSDN]] and [[TechNet]] in favour of their new Q&A platform.<ref>{{URL|https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-is-replacing-msdn-and-technet-forums-with-microsoft-q-a/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/teamblog/introducing-microsoft-qanda}}</ref><br />
* July 29 or 30: [[Microsoft]]'s Windows Community shut down after 4 years of operation<ref>{{URL|1=https://community.windows.com/en-us/stories/farewell-windows-community}}</ref>.<br />
* July 27: [https://nk.pl/ nk.pl], a Polish social network active since 2006, shut down.<ref>https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/zamkniecie-serwisu-naszaklasapl/hrzlgp7,79cfc278</ref><br />
* July 23: Unlisted [[YouTube]] videos uploaded before January 1, 2017 were made private.<ref>https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/114633828/changes-to-unlisted-videos-uploaded-before-2017</ref><ref name="verge link"></ref><br />
* July (some time in July, scheduled for<ref>{{URL|https://frama.link/}}, {{URL|https://frama.site/}}</ref> July 6): Various services run by the French organization [[Framasoft]]<ref>{{URL|https://alt.framasoft.org/en/}}</ref><br />
* July 2: [https://Brilliant.org/ Brilliant.org] shut down their community section.<ref>{{URL|https://brilliant.org/community-faq/}}</ref><br />
* July 2: Sony shut down the PlayStation Portable digital stores.<ref>{{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/support/important-notice/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kotaku.com/sony-closing-playstation-store-on-ps3-vita-and-psp-th-1846575103}}</ref> (Originally, the PlayStation 3 and Vita stores were also going to shut down, but Sony backed off later and announced that those would stay open 'for the foreseeable future'.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.playstation.com/2021/04/19/playstation-store-on-ps3-and-ps-vita-will-continue-operations/}}</ref>)<br />
* June 30: {{URL|https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/index.php|Virtual Teen}} <ref>https://www.virtualteen.org/forums/showthread.php?t=2056707</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June 29: {{URL|http://metrolyrics.com/|MetroLyrics}}, a database of over 1 million song lyrics, vanished unexpectedly.<br />
* June 24 15:00(JST) : [[GREE]], a Japanese browser games and micro blog service, shut down its PC version of its website, without carrying over the social networking functionality to its mobile version.<ref>{{URL|https://jp.apps.gree.net/ja/static/page/20210201_pcnotices}}</ref><br />
* June 22: [[Reddit]] purged almost a million 'dormant' subreddits.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/modnews/comments/o18ct9/creating_new_opportunities_for_future_community/}}</ref><br />
* June 15: {{URL|https://forums.tesla.com/|The Tesla forums}} closed, deprecated in favor of {{URL|https://engage.tesla.com/|engage.tesla.com}}.<ref>{{URL|https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-engage-tesla-social-platform-forums-dropped/}}</ref><br />
* June 13: LibertyLand Minecraft server shuts down. The {{URL|https://forums.libertyland.xyz|forums}} appear to already be {{lost}} as of June 10th EST, redirecting to a death page. The website remains accessible at {{URL|https://libertyland.xyz/old}} for the time being. The Discord server's public channels have been archived by [[User:TheTechRobo]] at {{IA item|insert-sad-face-here}}. There is also a website backup at {{IA item|libertyland.xyz}}.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|http://wikifoundrycentral.com/|WikiFoundry}}, a wiki hosting platform launched in 2013<br />
* June: [[Chrome Web Store]] ended support for Chrome apps on Windows, Mac, and Linux.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/10/21362688/google-chrome-apps-delay-shutdown-timeline-support-2021-2022}}</ref><ref>https://blog.chromium.org/2020/08/changes-to-chrome-app-support-timeline.html</ref><br />
* May 31: {{URL|https://www.hoax-slayer.net/|Hoax Slayer}}, taking 18 years' worth of articles down with it.<ref>{{URL|https://www.hoax-slayer.net/notice-hoax-slayer-is-closing-down/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: {{URL|http://www.lbpcentral.com/|LBPCentral}}<ref>{{URL|http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?95936-So-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish!}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=http://www.lbpcentral.com/forums/showthread.php?95936-So-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish!&p=1257196&viewfull=1#post1257196}}</ref><br />
* May 24: [https://www.btck.co.uk/Default.aspx BT Community Webkit], used by ~1000 UK charities.<ref>https://www.btck.co.uk/Default.aspx</ref><br />
* May 5: {{URL|http://meristation.as.com/zonaforo/|MeriStation Comunidad Zonaforo}}, a Spanish-language video game discussion forum that amassed over 2 million threads and over 45 million posts since 2000, shut down with less than 2 days of lead time.<ref>{{URL|http://meristation.as.com/zonaforo/topic/3006661/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://as.com/meristation/2021/05/03/noticias/1620032457_263442.html}}</ref><br />
* May 4: [[Yahoo! Answers]] shut down after going read-only on April 20.<ref>{{URL|https://answers.yahoo.com/}} (as of 2021-04-05)</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/SLN35642.html}}</ref><br />
* May<ref>Announced for 'spring', disappeared between April 18 and June 2</ref>: {{URL|https://www.instructables.com/|Instructables}} removed {{URL|https://www.instructables.com/community/forums/|their forums}}, having made them read-only in late 2020.<ref>{{URL|https://www.instructables.com/community/Retiring-the-Forums/}}</ref><br />
* End of April: {{URL|http://www.aimix-z.com/|aimix-BBS}}, a rental BBS service, shut down.<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.aimix-z.com/bbs.cgi?room=sample1}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Reverb Sites<ref>{{URL|https://help.reverb.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500001267901-Reverb-Sites-Shutdown-FAQ}}</ref><br />
* April: {{URL|https://www.demi.fi/|Demi.fi}} shut down. Registration was closed on February 2, and the forum went read-only on February 8. Last issue was on April 8.<ref>{{URL|https://www.demi.fi/keskustelu/yllapito-tiedottaa-demifi-sulkeutuu-ja-demi-lehden-ilmestyminen-loppuu-kevaalla-2021}}</ref> Website vanished before April 9.<br />
* End of March: {{URL|https://tokyo.whatsin.jp/|WHAT’s IN? tokyo}}, which publishes many articles about Japanese pop culture, will be shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://tokyo.whatsin.jp/634630}}</ref> (actually stayed online until some point in late June)<br />
* March 31 (00:00 UTC): [[Super Mario Maker Bookmark]] (turned out to be a few days before that)<br />
* March 31: Xigmanas removed its {{URL|https://www.xigmanas.com/oldforums|old forums}}.<br />
* March 27: Texas Instruments' {{URL|https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Main_Page|Processors Wiki}} shut down after being read-only for a few years.<ref>{{URL|1=https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&oldid=235339}}</ref><br />
* March 17<ref>Announced for 'early 2021', disappeared between March 16 and 18</ref>: [[CNET Forums]]<ref>Forum banner text at time of writing: "As of December 1, 2020, the forums will switch to a read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available."</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Niconico]] deleted metadata (including title, description, view count) for deleted videos.<ref>{{URL|http://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/141893.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://ch.nicovideo.jp/nicotalk/blomaga/ar1955376}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/147588.html}}</ref><br />
* March 1: [[Niconico]] deleted past comments (regardless of whether the video is deleted or not).<br />
* February 28: [[Ge.tt]] file sharing service shut down 28 Feb., existing files disappear on the 10 March.<br />
* February 9: The main website of the [[Halo]] franchise shut down almost 9 years after having been made read-only in March 2012.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/50006}}</ref><br />
* February 4: {{URL|https://connect.unity.com/|Unity Connect}}, official community platform for the Unity game engine<ref>{{URL|https://connect.unity.com/learn-more}}</ref> 'Some features, e.g. posting new content, creating job posts, will be locked prior to this date.'<br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://community.fantasyflightgames.com//|Fantasy Flight Games Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.fantasyflightgames.com/topic/313578-ffg-forum-shutdown/}}</ref> -- a wget archive (may be incomplete) was saved [https://archive.org/details/community.fantasyflightgames.com here]<br />
* Late January to early April: {{URL|https://www.storywars.net/|Story Wars}}, a collaborative story writing platform, shut down. (The shutdown was originally announced for 12 December 2019<ref>Announcement on {{URL|https://www.facebook.com/StoryWars/photos/2822038917826805/|Facebook}} and {{URL|https://www.instagram.com/p/B49tRdVD4C-/|Instagram}}</ref>, then deferred on 23 November 2019 for "five years"<ref>{{URL|https://www.storywars.net/forums/1/63717|"Story Wars is Saved (officially)"}} (login required, [[:File:Screenshot_storywars.net_forums_1_63717_2019-12-14.png|screenshot]])</ref>, which evidently didn't pan out.)<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.9lives.be/|9lives}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.9lives.be/news/telenet-stopt-na-31-januari-2021-met-9lives}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://tweakers.net/nieuws/175038/telenet-stopt-in-februari-2021-met-gamewebsite-9lives.html}}</ref>. Had a forum with ~700k threads.<br />
* January 28 15:00(UTC+9): [[So-net U-Page+]] & {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/info/2020/op20200908_0039.html|WebSpace}}<br />
* January 15: https://crowdmap.com/ shut down, offered paid migration of user data to their alternative service https://www.ushahidi.com/.<ref>{{URL|https://www.tekedia.com/running-out-of-funds-the-ushahidi-team-will-be-shutting-down-crowdmap/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[Fast.io]] shut down for all users.<ref>The shutdown notice was visible on the login page (click the Read More link): {{URL|https://go.fast.io/login}}</ref><br />
* January 15: Texas Instruments' {{URL|https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Main_Page|Processors Wiki}} reached end-of-life.<ref>{{URL|1=https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php?title=MediaWiki:Sitenotice&oldid=809028}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Parler]]<br />
* January 7: [[ISP Hosting|Ziggo's personal webspace]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.ziggo.nl/klantenservice/internet/webspace}}</ref> went down, 10 months after the official deadline of April 1.<br />
* January 1 (0:00 CET): EURid withdrew all .eu domain names owned by UK residents who are no longer eligible to own such domains through an EU citizenship. The domains were frozen and are non-functional for one year and will then be revoked (i.e. become available for registration again) in early 2022.<ref>{{URL|https://eurid.eu/en/register-a-eu-domain/brexit-notice/}}</ref><ref>Prior to Brexit, only EU residents could register .eu domains. During the negotiations, the rules were changed to also allow EU citizens living abroad to own domains. However, UK residents which do not hold an EU citizenship will lose their eligibility and domains.</ref><br />
* January 1<ref>Actually started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.nga.gov/open-access-images.html}} sometime in February or the first half of March.</ref>: National Gallery of Art's {{URL|https://images.nga.gov/|NGA Images}}, their legacy platform for downloading images<br />
* January 1: [[Twitch Sings]] shut down completely and remaining recordings are removed, having started removal on 2020-12-01.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2020/09/04/twitch-sings-closes-january-1/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/an-introduction-to-twitch-sings}}</ref><br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* December 31: Adobe [[Flash]] officially reached end-of-life and disappeared quickly as it was dropped by browsers.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171202123704/https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/]</ref><br />
** Some online game repositories such as "SpielAffe" purged flash games.<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.spielaffe.de/Best-Bewertete-Spiele</ref><br />
** {{URL|https://www.lacartoonerie.com/|La Cartoonerie}}, a French Flash animation hosting site, shut down, leaving only the community forums<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.lacartoonerie.com/showthread.php?tid=3734&pid=151087#pid151087}}</ref><br />
** [[Sploder]], a once-popular Flash-based game making website, went read-only (although the games are not playable without a Flash plugin), and shut down its forums on January 1.<br />
** {{URL|https://gamestarmechanic.com|Gamestar Mechanic}} was to have shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/GamestarMech/status/1310993121220714496}}</ref>; however, they were ultimately able to continue operating using a Flash-sandboxing native app with no gap in service.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20201221170619/https://gamestarmechanic.com/about/gsm_app]</ref><br />
* Unknown <s>July 31</s><ref>Announced for July 31, last WBM snapshot on [2020-10-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20201020052802/http://www.sweetbrokacik.pl/], dead as of 2021-01-04</ref>: {{URL|http://www.sweetbrokacik.pl/|Sweet Brokacik}}, a Polish forum<br />
* December 31: [[Endomondo]], a workout tracker app with optional social networking features, shuts down. Users can contact support for a copy or portability of their data until March 31, 2021.<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] retired free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* December 31 <s>October 1</s>: [[Nagi]] shut down its five Estonian photo and video hosting sites {{URL|http://nagi.ee/|Nagi}}, {{URL|http://fotoalbum.ee/|Fotoalbum}}, {{URL|http://keskus.ee/|Keskus}}, {{URL|http://toru.ee/|Toru}}, and {{URL|http://album.ee/|Album.ee}} with a total of 25 TB of image and video data.<ref>{{URL|1=http://nagistaja.nagi.ee/?p=125}}</ref><br />
* December 31 {{URL|http://www.rinmarugames.com|Rinmaru Games}} Online Story Games/Avatar creator shut down. Was popular enough in the day to be scanned by WayBackMachine a couple of times <ref>http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.rinmarugames.com</ref> <br />
* December 31: The popular webcomic host [[Smack Jeeves]] shut down, destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December 25: [[Voat]] was sacrificed by co-founder PuttItOut, to the opposition of most of its userbase. The announcement was made four days prior to the shutdown.<ref>{{URL|https://voat.co/v/announcements/4169936}}</ref><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform. Channels got a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* December 16<ref>Announced for December 15</ref>: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", shut down due to the archive interface being a Flash application.<ref>https://tedeschini.medium.com/tecnologia-digitale-obsoleta-un-secolo-e-mezzo-di-storia-a-rischio-1bb75bf68c2f</ref><ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/k2998p/italian_newspapers_online_archive_is_going_to_get/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2020/12/15/le-tante-vite-dellarchivio-storico-della-stampa/}}</ref> A replacement platform was announced to launch on 2021-02-15.<br />
* December <s>November 14</s><ref>Announced for 2020-11-14, disappeared between 2020-11-30 and 2020-12-03</ref>: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* December 1 <s>December 31</s>: {{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/|XDA Forums}} removing DevDB downloads: "All DevDB threads will revert to regular threads. DevDB Downloads will be removed, and we are significantly increasing the max file size for the attachment system on Xenforo. Any files uploaded via DevDB should be downloaded as they will be removed by 12/31/2020."<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.xda-developers.com/announcement.php?f=10117}}</ref> They ended up getting removed a month before that deadline<ref>{{URL|https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/welcome-to-xda-2021.4197018/post-84054395}}</ref>.<br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media deleted all [[Kinja]] user pages.<ref>{{URL|https://oppositelock.kinja.com/re-post-for-the-morning-crew-with-the-announcement-of-1845590330}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Fort_Cars/status/1324717098455633920}}</ref><ref>Date from Oppositelock Discord server</ref><ref>The deletion was originally announced in November 2019 but then postponed while G/O was 'reevaluating the options': {{URL|https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a359gz/go-media-says-its-deleting-all-personal-kinja-pages-amid-deadspin-reader-revolt}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* ca October <s>August 31</s>: [[ljplus.ru]], "photos posted on the ljplus.ru service will remain available and will be displayed via links, but the ljplus.ru site will not work."<br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.sascommunity.org/|sasCommunity.org}} published an announcement December 7, 2017 that the site would be decommissioned. On March 13, 2018, the site was converted into read-only mode. On October 31, the site began redirecting to the SAS Support Communities website.<br />
* October 21: {{URL|https://store.playstation.com/|PlayStation Store}} removed PS3/Vita/PSP listings from web and mobile store. <ref>{{URL|https://kotaku.com/revamped-playstation-store-ditches-ps3-vita-psp-conte-1845385501}}</ref><br />
* September 30: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}}'s data was deleted and data exports are no longer possible.<ref>{{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/}} as of 2020-09-03</ref><br />
* September 30: [[NAVERまとめ]] (NAVER Matome)<ref>{{URL|http://navermatome-official.blog.jp/archives/83259956.html}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[Samsung XR]], the company's virtual reality platform, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</ref><br />
* September 28 <s>August 1</s><ref>Announced for 2020-08-01, shut down between [2020-09-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20200927120015/https://theartistunion.com/] and [2020-09-28 https://web.archive.org/web/20200928132552/https://theartistunion.com/]</ref>: [[The Artist Union]], according to emails sent to users<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Archiveteam/comments/hwayb2/the_artist_union_is_shutting_down_on_august_1_2020/}}</ref> <ref>{{URL|https://server8.kiska.pw/uploads/fe53a864ee2387d3/image.png}}</ref><br />
* September 28: [[腾讯微博]] (Tencent Weibo), one of the biggest social media platforms in China with hundreds of millions of users<ref>Notice in {{URL|http://qqpublic.qpic.cn/qq_public/0/0-3009722790-544976304CEC92A2D2AF6372FC1CCE52/0|the background image}} of the website dated 2020-09-04.</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kf.qq.com/faq/200820BFnqeM200820IFZJzA.html}}</ref><br />
* Unknown<ref>Between 2020-04-06 ({{Job|elm3yi1mjr1jvqndaytxgnrz}}) and 2020-09-22 (discussion in #archivebot)</ref>: {{URL|https://www.superiorpics.com/c/|SuperiorPics Forums}}, a discussion forum about celebrity pictures with about 482k threads and 3.56M posts as of 2019-11-12, was "closing down this month" as of late October 2019, but no date had been communicated, and the owners were open to buying offers.<ref>{{URL|http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/5486588/ANNOUNCEMENT_SP_FORUMS_ARE_CLO}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/5487354/Developments}}</ref> It disappeared sometime in 2020 along with the main site.<br />
* September 15: {{URL|https://www.rakuten.com/shop/|Rakuten Americas marketplace}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://support.rakuten.com/hc/en-us/articles/360047189271}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/30/rakuten-is-shuttering-the-online-shop-formerly-known-as-buy-com/}}</ref><br />
* September 9: {{URL|https://www.kotaku.co.uk/|Kotaku UK}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.kotaku.co.uk/2020/09/07/farewell-from-kotaku-uk}}</ref>, {{URL|https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/|Gizmodo UK}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2020/09/so-long-gizmodo-uk/}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://www.lifehacker.co.uk/|Lifehacker UK}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.lifehacker.co.uk/2020/09/07/goodbye-lifehacker-uk}}</ref> shut down. The brands are owned by [[G/O Media]] but were operated in the UK by Future plc, and the licence between the two expired.<br />
* September 1 <s>July 24</s>: Many sections of {{URL|https://forum.doctissimo.fr/doctissimo/liste_categorie.htm|forum.doctissimo.fr}} related to sexuality were deleted after almost 20 years and tens of millions of posts due to a decision by the new owner.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.doctissimo.fr/doctissimo/ados-sexo/forum-sexualite-sujet_222117_1.htm}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://forum.doctissimo.fr/doctissimo/ados-sexo/nouvelles-importantes-suppression-sujet_222137_1.htm}}</ref><br />
* August: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://svn.openstreetmap.org/|SVN repository}}<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 31: [[Discogs]]'s smaller siblings {{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/|Gearogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://gear.discogs.com/forum/122871-gearogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681538-Gearogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://films.discogs.com/|Filmogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://films.discogs.com/forum/499075-filmogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681598-Filmogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, {{URL|https://books.discogs.com/|Bookogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://books.discogs.com/forum/817069-bookogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681518-Bookogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref>, and {{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/|Posterogs}}<ref>{{URL|https://posters.discogs.com/forum/146180-posterogs-closing-soon}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360011681658-Posterogs-Closing-On-August-31-2020}}</ref> all shut down.<br />
* August 31: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}} shut down at 11:59pm PDT.<ref>{{URL|https://www.macrumors.com/2020/08/24/everalbum-shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.everalbum.com/hc/en-us/articles/360051276694-Shutdown-FAQs}}</ref><br />
* August 31 <s>August 27</s>: {{URL|http://peerlyst.com/|Peerlyst}} was originally set to shut down on August 27th<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/Peerlyst/status/1287982821408223232}}</ref>, but a comment on the site by the CEO claims that the shutdown has been delayed: "Due to ongoing interest and conversation with third parties about keeping the site live, the close down has been postponed. We will try to provide 24 hour notice in advance of a future shut down date."<ref>{{URL|https://www.peerlyst.com/posts/peerlyst-is-saying-goodbye-peerlyst#comment-kChzLRrMQrcmoaCox}}</ref> The site shut down on the 31st without further notice.<br />
* August 26<ref>{{URL|1=https://trac.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiStart?action=history}}</ref> <s>"End of July"</s>: OpenStreetMap's {{URL|https://trac.openstreetmap.org/|Trac}} was retired and put into read-only mode.<ref>{{URL|https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/dev/2020-July/030958.html}}</ref><br />
* August 16: {{URL|http://blog.cz/|Blog.cz}} and {{URL|http://galerie.cz/|Galerie.cz}}<ref>{{URL|http://blog.blog.cz/2007/blog-cz-galerie-cz-se-louci-dekujeme}}</ref><br />
* August 14: [[Clutch]]<ref>{{URL|https://clutch.win/blog/clutch-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* August 3: [[Microsoft]] removed all SHA-1-signed content from the [[Microsoft Download Center]].<ref>{{URL|https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/sha-1-windows-content-to-be-retired-august-3-2020/ba-p/1544373}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-to-remove-all-windows-downloads-signed-with-sha-1/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/announcements/sha-1-signed-content-retired}}</ref><br />
* July (unknown date): Insult.Wiki spontaneously converted from a user-contributed MediaWiki-powered wiki to what seems like a self-built mini CMS, discarding at least talk pages and page histories.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20200708155740/http://www.insult.wiki/wiki/Main_Page Before change (2020-07-08)], [http://web.archive.org/web/20200725115255/http://www.insult.wiki/schimpfwort/aaesser After change (2020-07-25)]; [http://web.archive.org/web/20200805010430/http://www.insult.wiki/ Earliest capture of new main page (2020-08-05)]</ref> <br />
* August <s>July 1</s> <s>June 1</s>: [[Bitbucket]] deleted all [[Mercurial]] repositories.<ref>{{URL|https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Discogs]]'s sibling site for comics, {{URL|https://comics.discogs.com/|Comicogs}}, shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://comics.discogs.com/forum/138464-comicogs-closing}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.discogslabs.com/hc/en-us/articles/360010795398-Comicogs-Closing-On-July-31-2020}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Kongregate]] removed non-gaming forums, made most other forums read-only, and removed nearly all chat rooms.<ref>{{URL|https://www.kongregate.com/forums/1-kongregate/topics/1916387-important-kongregate-announcement}}</ref><br />
* July 22: [[Mixer]]<ref>{{URL|https://blog.mixer.com/2020/06/22/the-next-step-for-mixer/}}</ref><br />
* July 20: [[Soup.io]]<ref>{{URL|https://soup-sponsored.soup.io/post/696483287/Soup-io-will-be-discontinued}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://kitchen.soup.io/post/696483222/The-sadest-news-in-the-soup-history}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trendingtopics.at/soup-io-ein-kapitel-oesterreichischer-startup-geschichte-geht-zu-ende/}}</ref><br />
* July 13 <s>July 1 + "a few days more"</s><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/frontpage/2020/07/01/a-new-era-of-trancefix-update-1}}</ref> <s>June 6</s>: {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/|TranceFix.nl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358454-Closing-of-TranceFix-nl}}</ref>, but the forums live on under the same domain<ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358563-Fundraiser-New-Trancefix-home}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/showthread.php?358472-NEW-FORUM-Other-ideas-moving-forward}}</ref> without the old discussions<ref>"Unfortunately we were not able to migrate any of the current site data into the new platform, for reasons outside of our control." – Notice on {{URL|https://www.trancefix.nl/forum.php}} as of 2020-06-19</ref>.<br />
* July 10: [[Facebook]] shut down Hobbi<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/06/30/facebook-shuts-down-hobbi-its-experimental-app-for-documenting-personal-projects/}}</ref> and Lasso<ref>{{URL|https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/01/lasso-facebook-tiktok-shut-down/}}</ref>, its failed [[TikTok]] and [[Pinterest]] clones.<br />
* July 5: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, became read-only and will shut down sometime later this year.<br />
* July 1: {{URL|https://www.prototypo.io/|Prototypo}}<br />
* July 1: {{URL|http://www.tigris.org/|Tigris.org}}<br />
* June 30: ARM announced in January that the documentation platforms [https://developer.arm.com/docs developer.arm.com/docs] and [http://infocenter.arm.com/ infocenter.arm.com] were to be retired "later this year" after migration to a new platform.<ref>{{URL|https://community.arm.com/developer/b/announcements/posts/upcoming-changes-to-arm-s-technical-documentation-websites}}</ref> On May 29, they launched the new {{URL|https://developer.arm.com/documentation-beta/|beta platform}} and announced that the "full release [...] is scheduled for 30 June", at which point the old platforms would be replaced by redirects.<ref>{{URL|https://community.arm.com/developer/b/announcements/posts/documentation-hub-beta-goes-live}}</ref> It went down on 30 June.<ref>{{URL|https://community.arm.com/developer/b/announcements/posts/documentation-hub-goes-live}}</ref><br />
* June 30: {{URL|http://www.suntuubi.com/|Suntuubi.com}} closed down on June 30, 2020 (shutdown also includes *.virtuaalitalli.fi, *.w2.fi, *.heppa.fi domains; these were aliases to the corresponding suntuubi.com subdomain)<br />
* June 12: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} shut down<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref>.<br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://forums.cyan.com/|Cyan}}, the parent of {{URL|https://mystonline.com|Myst Online}}, shut their forums down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.cyan.com/viewtopic.php?f=99&t=1608}}</ref><br />
* June 15<ref>{{URL|https://community.sophos.com/products/sandboxie/f/forum/121148/the-sandboxie-forum-is-now-closed}}</ref> <s>June 1</s>: {{URL|https://www.sandboxie.com/|Sandboxie}}'s {{URL|https://community.sophos.com/products/sandboxie/f/forum|forums}} were made read-only.<ref>{{URL|https://community.sophos.com/products/sandboxie/f/forum/119641/important-sandboxie-open-source-code-is-available-for-download}}</ref> The {{URL|https://www.sandboxie.com/old-forums/index.html|old forums}} became inaccessible around the same time. The remainder of the website was also replaced by a static notice on the homepage in June.<br />
* June <s>"by end of March"</s>: {{URL|http://activedir.org/|Activedir forum, mailing list, and website}} was started back in January 2001 with the aim of providing a forum for discussing various aspects of Microsoft's Active Directory technology. 11.5k members, 49k posts, 9.5k in forum. Announced to disappear "by the end of March"<ref>{{URL|http://activedir.org/thread/mailing-list-future/}}</ref>, it stayed online until June.<br />
* June <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|http://www.freedb.org/|freedb}}. The website started redirecting to {{URL|https://www.magix.com/|magix.com}} sometime between May 25 and June 6. The bulk download directory at {{URL|http://ftp.freedb.org/pub/freedb/}} and the database API under freedb.freedb.org became inaccessible sometime between June 6 and June 19 as the domains stopped resolving. A final data dump was created on June 12 (manually; the normal dumps were on the first of each month), and the download directory was still online under {{URL|http://195.214.216.46/pub/freedb/|the same IP}} as of June 19.<br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/|Heroes Wiki}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://heroeswiki.com/User:Admin/Goodbye}}</ref><br />
* June 1: {{URL|https://yiff.party/|yiff.party}} removed a lot of content due to the introduction of new rules.<ref>{{URL|https://yiff.party/exclusions}}</ref><br />
* May 30-31: {{URL|http://www.tssznews.com/|TSSZ News}}<ref>https://kotaku.com/sonic-fan-site-closes-after-21-years-over-very-bad-blac-1843836953</ref><br />
* May 28: {{URL|https://blog.dlsite.com/|DLsite blog}}, a Japanese blog platform<ref>{{URL|http://home-info.dlsite.com/archives/9506936.html}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://blog.dlsite.com/modpub/lp/home/blog-relocation/}}</ref><br />
* May 27: {{URL|https://www.wizards.com/magic/planeswalkerpoints|Magic: The Gathering Planeswalker Points}} shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/wizards_magic/status/1254787393309143042}}</ref><br />
* May 22: {{URL|https://community.imgur.com/|Imgur Community Forum}}<ref>{{URL|https://community.imgur.com/t/the-imgur-community-forum-is-closing-effective-may-22-2020/73256}}</ref><br />
* May 19: {{URL|https://jet.com}} Oncoming shut down announced on this date, fully shut down sometime after.<ref>{{URL|https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/19/walmart-winds-down-jetcom-four-years-after-3point3-billion-acquisition.html}}</ref><br />
* May 6: {{URL|https://www.wunderlist.com/|Wunderlist}} <s>was slowly being destroyed by [[Microsoft]] piece by piece since the shutdown announcement in 2017<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.office.com/2017/04/19/introducing-microsoft-to-do-now-available-in-preview/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.pcworld.com/article/3384707/wunderlists-death-by-a-thousand-cuts-continues-as-microsoft-axes-cortana-integration.html}}</ref></s> was demolished.<ref>{{URL|https://www.wunderlist.com/blog/join-us-on-our-new-journey/}}</ref><br />
* April 19 <s>June 30</s>: The {{URL|https://insiders.marriott.com/|Marriott Bonvoy Insiders community}}, read-only from April 3, was going to be shut down on 30 June.<ref>{{URL|https://insiders.marriott.com/blogs/exclusive-news/2020/04/02/community-update}}</ref> However, it was put into maintenance mode<ref>{{URL|1=https://status.jiveon.com/maintenance.jspa?hostname=insiders.marriott.com}}</ref> prematurely on 19 April around 20:15 UTC, apparently due to an unintended data leak caused by the read-only mode<ref>{{URL|https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/32316295-post26.html}}</ref>, and never returned after that.<br />
* April 5<ref>{{URL|https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=https%3a%2f%2ftalk.sonymobile.com%2f&d=4518653647064303&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=4j2zCIUk00gG2L9bnPMUPAhowuCWkV2O|Bing cache of talk.sonymobile.com from 2020-04-05}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://talk.sonymobile.com/|Google cache of talk.sonymobile.com from 2020-04-05 09:25 UTC}}</ref> <s>"early 2020"</s>: {{URL|https://talk.sonymobile.com/|Sony Xperia support forum}}<br />
* April<ref>Between {{URL|https://cc.bingj.com/cache.aspx?q=url%3ahttps%3a%2f%2fwww.ibm.com%2fdeveloperworks%2fcommunity%2fgroups%2fservice%2fhtml%2fallcommunities&d=4995867465091736&mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US&w=bmcENikpCnvf2-JMUeUYVTyC6pQRoeOm|Bing cache from 2020-04-02}} and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref> <s>January 2</s> <s>December 31</s>: IBM's {{URL|https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/groups/service/html/allcommunities|developerWorks Connections platform}}<ref>{{URL|https://developer.ibm.com/code/dw-connections-sunset-faq/}}</ref><br />
* April 1<ref>#missitall: &lt;@betamax&gt; it was online in the AM of April 1st. Offline in the AM of April 2nd (those are GMT+1 times)</ref>: [[BBC Mixital]]<br />
* March, CD Baby <ref>https://store.cdbaby.com</ref> retired its music store, but purchases appear to still be redeemable [citation needed]. <br />
* March<ref>Website broke ("Our services aren't available right now") between [https://web.archive.org/web/20200325170158/https://3dbuzz.com/ 2020-03-25] and 2020-04-06 (ArchiveBot)</ref>: {{URL|https://3dbuzz.com/|3dbuzz.com}} closed its forums in early January 2020<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/KevbotNeilson/status/1213150534091231232|"3dbuzz is shutting down. Everything is free to download."}}, Kevin Neilson (@KevbotNeilson) on Twitter, 2020-01-03}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200105133026/https://3dbuzz.com/ Earliest WBM snapshot 2020-01-05 13:30 UTC]</ref>, but made most of its other content freely available, first directly on the site and from 13/14 January in a torrent. Site was founded by 3D artist Jason Busby who passed away from cancer in September 2017.<br />
* March 20: Guitar company Fender closed {{URL|https://forums.fender.com/|their forums}} with 1.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.fender.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119257}}</ref><br />
* March 16: [[League of Legends#LoL Boards & Forum|League of Legends forums]]<br />
* March 9 <s>February 17</s>: {{URL|https://forums.bethsoft.com/|The old Bethesda Forums}} (superseded by {{URL|https://bethesda.net/community/|new forums}} and read-only since early 2017) went offline.<br />
* February 27: {{URL|https://www.playstation.com/en-gb/get-help/forums/|PlayStation Community forums}} (in all regions) are shutting down.<br />
* February 3: eBookFarm ({{URL|https://ebook.farm/}} and {{URL|https://ebooklogin.com/}})<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/ejka7z/reminder_ebookfarm_is_shutting_down_on_232020_can/}}</ref><br />
* February 1: {{URL|https://vampirefreaks.com/journal_entry/8876284|VampireFreaks.com}} was an online community for the Gothic–industrial subcultures. Created by site owner Jet Berelson in 1999.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://firedrop.com/|Firedrop}} realised that "the most generous offer in the industry" of free cloud storage isn't sustainable and shut down.<br />
* January 31: {{URL|http://galeon.com/|Galeon}}, an ancient web hoster (including a free service) from Spain, deleted a significant but unknown number of hosted sites<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.irista.com/|Irista}}, Canon's free cloud photo storage<ref>{{URL|https://www.irista.com/faq}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[SingStar]]<br />
* January 31: {{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/|yaplog!}} (GMO Media)<ref>{{URL|https://www.yaplog.jp/contents/close/}}</ref><br />
* January<ref>Per WBM saves, their website shut down between Jan 25 and Jan 31, 2020, ahead of the announced date March 31, 2020.</ref> <s>March 31</s>: {{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/|The Inquirer}}, a British tech tabloid started in 2001 by Mike Magee, stopped publishing Dec 19, 2019.<ref>{{URL|https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/3084741/the-inquirer-reaches-end-of-life}}</ref><br />
* January 10: [[Microsoft]]'s 3D object publishing platform [[Remix 3D]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.thurrott.com/cloud/microsoft-consumer-services/210106/microsoft-is-planning-to-shutdown-remix3d}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/WinObs/status/1149034858007683073}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4023824/windows-10-remix-3d-frequently-asked-questions}}</ref><br />
* January 8: {{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/forum/|Spiegel Online's forums}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.spiegel.de/dienste/in-eigener-sache-informationen-zur-einstellung-des-spon-forums-a-1303596.html}}</ref><br />
* January 2: The United States Patent Office purged some of their {{URL|https://bulkdata.uspto.gov/|bulk data products}}, including patent grant OCR'd text and trademark image data going back to 1790. <ref>{{URL|https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/eibo1a/united_states_patent_office_data_and_trademark/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* December 31: [[8tracks]] shut down<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/8tracks/status/1210641993115820034}}</ref> but was resurrected in April<ref>{{URL|https://blog.8tracks.com/2020/04/19/welcome-back-8tracks/}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://etherpad.net/|Etherpad.net}}, an [[Etherpad]] instance<br />
* December <s>3</s> 17: The legacy {{URL|http://gmc.yoyogames.com/|GameMaker Community}} forums was deleted after having been retired and put into read-only mode in April 2016.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/legacy-gmc-archive-is-being-deleted.69568/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: {{URL|http://comicbookdb.com/|Comic Book DB}}<br />
* December 15: [[Plays.tv]] shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.plays.tv/download-content/}}</ref><br />
* December 15: Yahoo! Japan shut down {{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/|Yahoo!ブログ}}, their blogging platform.<ref>{{URL|https://blogs.yahoo.co.jp/y_j_blog/36408510.html}}</ref><br />
* December 14: [[Yahoo! Groups]] is no longer publicly accessible (having been frozen on October 28). (Mailing lists continue to work. Data can be requested until 2020-01-31<ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2019/12/10/21004883/yahoo-groups-extend-deadline-download-data-date-time}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/YahooCare/status/1204312076379926528}}</ref>.)<br />
* December 11(-ish) <s>June 28</s>: {{URL|https://assemblergames.com/|ASSEMbler}} (Assembler Games)<ref>{{URL|https://assemblergames.com/threads/this-forum-to-close-in-30-days.71032/}}</ref>. Despite no additional statement after the announcement, the site was still online on 2019-12-06<ref>http://web.archive.org/web/20191206184256/https://assemblergames.com/</ref>, but by 2019-12-16 it had disappeared. <!-- Saved with ArchiveBot. An independent wget copy was made May 30, 2019 https://public-nicholasserra.s3.amazonaws.com/web/assemblergames.com-static-2019.rar.torrent (source: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/bx50rd/assemblergamescom_static_local_backup_torrent/ ) --><br />
* December 5: [[YouTube]] made all playlists of liked videos ("liked lists") private by default.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6083270}}</ref><br />
* December 3: [[Google Fusion Tables]]<ref>https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/9185417</ref><br />
* December 2: [[Drawr]], one of the biggest online drawing platform (similar to Pixiv Sketch)<br />
* December 2: [[Freeml]] (GMO Media)<br />
* November 22: Intel driver and BIOS file purge. <ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/d6dkoi/intel_removing_unknown_amount_of_drivers_and/}}</ref><br />
* November/December: [[Gfycat]] deleted old anonymous uploads with few views.<br />
* November 17: [[Apple]] "removed all customer reviews from its online stores" without prior warning.<ref>{{URL|https://www.pcmag.com/news/372114/apple-removes-all-customer-reviews-from-its-online-stores}}</ref><br />
* November 12: The {{URL|https://www.fbo.gov/|Federal Business Opportunities}} platform by the US government started migrating to a new platform ({{URL|https://beta.sam.gov/|beta.sam.gov}}) on the 8th and was shut down on the 12th. Only "critical functionality will be transitioned"<ref>{{URL|https://www.gsa.gov/cdnstatic/FBO_Is_Transitioning_to_Beta_Factsheet_%281%29.pdf}}</ref>.<br />
* November 1: [[Weatherzone Forums]], an Australian weather discussion platform with over 1.5 million posts<ref>{{URL|http://forum.weatherzone.com.au/ubbthreads.php/topics/1501563/Forum_Closing}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Last snapshot of {{URL|https://www.meritbadge.org/}} taken, site shut down unexpectedly between this date and November 2<br />
* October 31: [[DiscussionApps]]<br />
* October 31: National Geographic's [[Your Shot]] platform will shut down in favour of their Instagram account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.slrlounge.com/your-shot-by-natgeo-is-being-discontinued-disney-is-shutting-down-the-website-in-favor-of-instagram/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: {{URL|https://www.24syv.dk/|Radio24syv}}, a Danish radio station, stopped broadcasting as its licence expired. The website disappeared sometime in November or December.<br />
* October 21: [[picosong]]<br />
* September 30: Sony's drawing application [[Sketch]] shut down all of its online services.<ref>{{URL|https://sketch.sonymobile.com/eol}}</ref><br />
* September 20: [[Adland]] ([https://reclaimthenet.org/adland-taken-offline-dmca-claim/ DMCA and ISP takedown])<br />
* September 19: [[TinyPic]]<br />
* September 1: [[Disqus#Disqus Channels|Disqus Channels]]<br />
* August 31 (effectively), September 28 (technically): [[Instaudio]]<br />
* July 1: [[LISWiki]]<br />
* June: {{URL|https://www.paigeeworld.com/|PaigeeWorld}} closed down, taking with it over 20 million images<ref>{{URL|https://membership.paigeeworld.com/goodbye/}}</ref><br />
* June 25: [[NRATV]]<br />
* June 12: [[Facepunch Forums]]<br />
* June 1: [[GitHost]]<br />
* May 31: [[Kanji Koohii Forum]] with 253,371 posts and 14,950 threads shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.koohii.com/thread-15535.html}}</ref><br />
* May 17: The mobile game Paradise Bay's servers, making the game unplayable; the forums followed one week later (May 24)<ref>{{URL|1=https://paradisebaygame.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=524389}}</ref><br />
* May<ref>Announced for 1 May at {{URL|https://www.99.se/artikel/12518-ajoss-och-tack-for-fisken}}, actually shut down sometime between 14 and 20 May.</ref>: [[99.se]], Scandinavia's largest and oldest Apple forum<br />
* May 13: All [[Tieba]] posts before January 1, 2017 were hidden by Baidu. Baidu claimed this was for a "database system upgrade". (In fact, Baidu surrendered to the CCP's harsh censorship.)<br />
* May 13<ref>Announced for 31 March but remained online until sometime between 12 and 14 May</ref>: All [[Wikia]]-hosted [[Uncyclopedia]]s<ref>{{URL|https://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Forum:A_message_from_Fandom}}</ref><br />
* April 28: {{URL|https://friends.nico/}}, the first major [[Mastodon]] instance to shut down<br />
* April 24: {{URL|https://storyfunding.daum.net/|Daum Storyfunding}}<br />
* April 10: [[Sola.ai]]<br />
* April 2: [[Google+]] for consumers<br />
* April 1: [[Daum Agora]]<br />
* March 31: [[GeoCities Japan]]<ref>{{url|https://qz.com/1408120/yahoo-japan-is-shutting-down-its-website-hosting-service-geocities/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://info-geocities.yahoo.co.jp/close/index.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[FileTrip]]<br />
* March 31: {{URL|https://mixtape.moe/|Mixtape}}, a file and paste hoster<ref>{{URL|https://blog.sapphire.moe/mixtape-future/}}</ref><br />
* March 12 <s>February 5</s>: Content of all free [[Flickr]] accounts above the first 1000 pictures were deleted.<br />
* February 15: {{URL|https://wedpics.com/home|WedPics}}<ref>Banner on https://web.archive.org/web/20190122015526/https://wedpics.com/home</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.wedpics.com/blog/2019/1/21/wedpics-shutting-down-february-15th-2019}}</ref><br />
* January 31: [[UOL Blogs]] and [[UOL Fotoblogs]] shut down.<br />
* January 31: The rest of [[Wikispaces]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: [[YouTube]] removed all annotations.<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/7342737}}</ref><br />
* January 7: [[UOL Forums]] shut down.<br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* December 26: share.youthwant.com.tw shut down<ref>{{URL|1=http://blog.youthwant.com.tw/b.php?do=A&bid=1&aid=27258803}}</ref>. (Partially saved through [[ArchiveBot]] {{Job|qx301xmy0y3u21jju9y2ldvh}}.)<br />
* December 17: [[Tumblr]] nuked all adult content (or what their algorithms thought was adult content<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/carolinethegeek/status/1069712323923726336}}</ref>).<ref>{{URL|https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/231885248-Sensitive-content}}</ref><br />
* December 17: Cengage/Questia deletes HighBeam, a database of newspapers and periodicals.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20181217091740/https://www.highbeam.com/</ref><br />
* Late November or December: The OpenShot video editor's user forum was shut down.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20181122023132/http://openshotusers.com/forum/ OpenShot Users Forum (from the Wayback Machine, 22 November 2018)]</ref><ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20190104121419/http://openshotusers.com/forum/ General Error - OpenShotUsers.com (from the Wayback Machine, 4 January 2019)]</ref> It was later redirected to the OpenShot subreddit.<ref>[http://web.archive.org/web/20190604180913/http://openshotusers.com/forum OpenShotUsers.com (from the Wayback Machine, 4 June 2019)]</ref> Any posts not crawled by the Wayback Machine are lost.<br />
* November 5: {{URL|https://botbot.me/|BotBot.me}}, an IRC logger/log hosting service, shut down.<br />
* October 10: {{URL|https://pin-cong.com/|品葱}} was taken down by the Chinese Communist Party due to high quality criticism and reactionary to communism and China.<br />
* October: [[Mozilla Addons]] deleted all legacy addons.<br />
* October 1: [https://tian.yam.com/ 天空部落 TIAN] purged blogs that don't "match the future business direction".<br />
* September 30: [[TF2 Outpost]] and its companion sites CS:GO Outpost and Dota Outpost shut down. (Related: [[ZAM Network]])<br />
* September 30: [[Wikispaces]] Plus and Super Wikis closed.<ref>{{url|http://www.wikispaces.com/}}</ref><br />
* August 10: [[TalkTalk]] deleted its personal webspace.<br />
* August 1: [[Tindeck]] permanently ceased operations on August 1st, 2018, in response to the EU considering changes to Article 13 of the European Union Copyright Directive.<ref>{{url|http://tindeck.com/goodbye}}</ref><br />
* July 31: [[Wikispaces]] Classroom and Free Wikis were decommissioned.<ref>{{url|http://helpcenter.wikispaces.com/customer/en/portal/articles/2920537-classroom-and-free-wikis}}</ref><br />
* July 31: Go90, mobile video service, was eighty-sixed by Verizon.<ref>{{url|https://variety.com/2018/digital/news/go90-shutting-down-verizon-1202860864/}}</ref><br />
* July 18: [[Looksmax.net]], a red pill and self-improvement forum, has been shut down because the owner's wife demanded him to shut it down after the owner was doxed.<br />
* July 16: [https://www.guideline.gov/home/announcements guideline.gov, the US government's Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality's National Guidelines Clearinghouse, went dark.] It was a government database that one researcher said "was our go-to source, and there is nothing else like it in the world"<ref>{{URL|https://www.thedailybeast.com/hhs-plans-to-delete-20-years-of-critical-medical-guidelines-next-week}}</ref>. ArchiveTeam archived the whole site in June 2018. It was added to [[ArchiveBot]] again in July to make sure that everything's covered: {{Job|1faxz160pkjk4yhndfizglop6}}.<br />
* July 13: GameForge shut down the old Runes of Magic forums ({{URL|http://board.us.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|US}} and {{URL|http://board.eu.runesofmagic.gameforge.com/|EU}}).<br />
* June 28: Bungie shut down the old [[Halo]] forums and purged detailed statistics for Halo games.<ref>{{URL|https://www.bungie.net/en/Explore/Detail/News/46965}}</ref><br />
* May 16: [[Storify]]<br />
* April 16: German technology discussion forum [[GIGA-Forum]]<br />
* March 30: [http://www.vocaloidotaku.net/ VocaloidOtaku.net]<br />
* March 30: [http://halowars.com Website] for the video game Halo Wars (including large forums)<br />
* March 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Bumpers.fm] podcast site made read-only for 60 days then shutdown (companion site to Captioned.com)<br />
* March 5: [http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com Pick-Up-Artist-Forum.com], with one million posts and 170,000 members, was shut down. "Sorry, this forum is no longer active. The posts/threads you see will remain available to read, however new registrations, posts, threads and any type of update will no longer be allowed. Thanks!"<ref>{{URL|http://www.pick-up-artist-forum.com/ucp.php}}</ref> "...5th March 2018 the forum will be deleted and will no longer have hosting..."<ref>{{URL|1=http://redpilltalk.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1041143}}</ref><br />
* March 1: Polish free webhosting service [http://republika.pl Republika WWW] (according to [https://mailing.onet.pl/02431610498540524545 emails sent out to users]). <br />
* February 28: Polish free blog hosting [[Blog.pl]]<br />
* February 6: [https://medium.com/bumpers/shutting-down-bumpers-de62f4a9a0ee Captioned.com] app removed and site made read-only for 30 days (companion to Bumpers.fm)<br />
* February 1: [[Mapzen]] announced on 2 January 2018 that it "will cease operations at the end of January 2018. Our hosted APIs and all related support and services will turn off on February 1, 2018. You will not be charged for API usage in December/January.".<ref>{{URL|https://mapzen.com/blog/shutdown/}}</ref> Many open source cartographical resources were present here.<br />
* January 31: Spanish comics/art/blog/forum [[Subcultura]]<br />
* January: Manga hosting website [[Batoto]]<br />
<br />
=== 2017 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://gamingpolo.com/ closed down after having many non-working pages and download for around a year.<br />
* Date unknown: Elfwood has been home to tons of fantasy and sci-fi art and fiction since the late 90's, though since June 2016, plans for a "new Elfwood" have been put on hold. According to Wayback Machine, was last seen functioning normally in March 2017.<br />
* December 15: [[Vidme]]<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/vidme/goodbye-for-now-120b40becafa}}</ref> - video sharing platform.<br />
* December 15: [[CompuServe Forums]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.fastcompany.com/40495831/compuserves-forums-which-still-exist-are-finally-shutting-down}}</ref><br />
* November 30: [https://translate.twitter.com/forum/ Twitter translation center forums] closed; only forum accounts created prior to November 1 will work.<br />
* November 8: [[Miiverse]], Nintendo's social network which had a client in the 3DS and WiiU consoles and was also for the most part accessible over a PC web browser, was shut down. While incomplete, a good chunk of the content was unofficially backed up onto [https://archiverse.guide a new site].<br />
* October 9: FatWallet.com, started in 1999, was a comparison shopping website. The large community forums covering many topics from finance to tech. <ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FatWallet}}</ref><br />
* September 4: {{URL|https://torrentproject.se/|Torrent Project}}, a large database of 103 million torrents with collected metadata such as mediainfo, started displaying a 403 error. It remained online on [http://x4torrentjjjjuxy.onion/ the .onion domain] at first. As of July 2020, the hidden service is also unresponsive, and the site is not known to have returned to clearnet since 2017.<br />
* July: OpenBitTorrent disappeared.<br />
* June 30: [[Eroshare]], a pornographic sharing service, shut down. All those [[Reddit]] links, useless...<br />
* June 23: {{url|https://www.imzy.com/|Imzy}}, a discussion community website, shut down.<br />
* March 17: [https://loadaverage.org/ LoadAverage], a GNU social instance (Twitter clone) shut down<ref>{{url|https://wiki.loadaverage.org/news/bye_guys}}</ref><br />
* March 10: Version 2 of {{url|http://deadhorseinterchangeable.freeforums.org/|Dead Horse Interchangeable}}, a forum for mocking online personalities, was shut down by FreeForums.org for violating their terms of service. The userbase migrated to ProBoards ({{url|http://dhi.freeforums.net/}}), and then to a self-hosted domain two weeks later ({{url|http://deadhorseinterchange.net/}}), but countless posts from version 2 have been lost.<br />
* March 3: Disney Infinity shut down all community services<ref>{{url|https://infinity.disney.com/closing}}</ref><br />
* January 31: J:COM NET closed down webhosting service WebSpace <ref>{{url|http://notices.jcom.co.jp/notice/10073.html}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2016 ===<br />
* Date unknown: http://www.mytvshows.org/<br />
* Date unknown: According to akz, self-identified in #archivebot as a moderator of the site, [[Captain Luffy Forums]] would be closing when the hosting expired, as the owner had chosen not to renew it. It finally did so sometime after August 10th.<br />
* Date unknown: Lots of older [[nin.com]] sub-domains (e.g. remix.nin.com, forum.nin.com) died. DNS had already been repointed but the old hosts were still online as of 2016-12-20<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.echoingthesound.org/community/threads/4298-New-nin-com-website?p=328754#post328754}}</ref>; everything is dead as of 2020-07-02.<br />
* December 31: [[ex.ua]] was like what.cd, except the data was hosted on the site.<br />
* December 27: [[kepfeltoltes.hu]], one of the most popular Hungarian image sharing services, ceased operations.<br />
* December: {{URL|http://convozine.com/|Convozine}} started having technical problems<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1276432372379976&id=113073548715870}}</ref>. They shut down their mirror site on June 1, 2017<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340341162655763&id=113073548715870}}</ref><ref>{{URL|1=https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1340298025993410&id=113073548715870}}</ref>.<br />
* November 17: {{url|https://what.cd/|What.CD}} suddenly shut down. One of, if not, the largest BitTorrent music trackers on the internet. "Due to some recent events, What.CD is shutting down. We are not likely to return any time soon in our current form. All site and user data has been destroyed. So long, and thanks for all the fish."<ref>{{URL|http://i.imgur.com/qb3po3C.png}}</ref><br />
* November 10: [[Nifty]] ended web-hosting service. A number has migrated to LaCoocan.<ref>{{url|http://homepage.nifty.com/information/2016/01/}}</ref><br />
* October/November: [[Desura]] and {{URL|http://www.indieroyale.com/|Indie Royale}}, after the bankruptcy of Bad Juju Games in June 2015 and an acquisition by OnePlay.<ref>{{url|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Vessel shut down after it was acquired by Verizon. <ref>{{url|https://www.vessel.com/blog}}</ref><br />
* October 31: [[Twitterfeed]] shut its doors on October 31st, 2016. They recommend [[Buffer]] (https://buffer.com) or [[Dlvr.it]].<br />
* October 25: Bioware shut down their forums. They were made read-only on August 26 and taken down entirely on October 25.<ref>{{url|http://blog.bioware.com/2016/07/29/concerning-our-forums/}}</ref><br />
* October 23: Allmyvideos.net removed all videos and shut down their website for good. They claimed that this was because their site is no longer profitable enough to run and maintain the website.<br />
* September: Questhub.io was a public social todolist/quests service. The author announced that it will be closed soon.<ref>{{url|https://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/57b23a65330ed0bb37000041}}</ref> He is willing to dump the database. The code in open on {{url|https://github.com/berekuk/questhub/}}.<br />
* September 30: {{url|http://www.lokalisten.de/}} shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2016/09/03/lokalisten-ende-soziales-netzwerk-wird-abgeschaltet/}}</ref><br />
* August 31: Sunrise Calendar shut down to make way for Outlook. Blame [[Microsoft]].<ref>{{url|http://blog.sunrise.am/post/144196642739/its-almost-time-to-say-goodbye}}</ref><br />
* August 5: [[Yahoo!]] discontinued supportfor all legacy versions of Yahoo! Messenger and shut down the servers for good. <ref>{{url|http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/old-yahoo-messenger-app-to-shut-down-on-august-5-848476}}</ref><br />
* July 31: {{url|http://kagi.com/|Kagi.com}}, shareware and other software payment processor that started in 1994, shut down with no notice, claiming: "For the past ten years Kagi has been struggling to recover from financial losses due to a supplier fraud situation. We have reduced the debt but the recovery has failed and forced us to close."<br />
* June 27: {{URL|http://www.musicnewsnashville.com/|Music News Nashville}} ceased publication. "All of our archives will remain online for at least one more year." The domain expired sometime between December 2017 and February 2018.<br />
* July 27: [[Portalgraphics.net]] has closed the portal to the "PGN Community", home to over 90000 unique user-submitted images<ref>{{url|http://www.portalgraphics.net/pg/guide/en_news20160520.html}}</ref><br />
* July 20: Kickasstorrents has been seized and the tor domain is offline as well. Fortunately, Proxies exist that have some of the data cached, but it's only a matter of time before the cache gets deleted or the proxies stop working. <ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/feds-seize-kickasstorrents-domains-charge-owner-160720/}}</ref><br />
* July 19: [[Webmonkey]] now redirects to wired.com after having been abandoned for three years.<br />
* June 11: [[Antimisandry.com]], which hosted a large men's rights forum, has been shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://medium.com/@BlackBeard20096/male-suicide-awareness-b0495c0fe9d2}}</ref><br />
* June 1: [[Arto]], the first Danish social site, shut down (800.000 users about 2-3 TB data estimated).<br />
* June 1: [http://www.blog.dk/ Blog.dk], Danish blog site (subproject of Arto)<br />
* May 18: [[GameTrailers]], after officially suddenly closing on February 9, went down and started redirecting to their YouTube channel instead.<br />
* May 13: Beatport shut down "the Streaming service and mobile app, Beatport News, the Video livestreaming platform, and the Events section".<ref>{{url|https://blog.beatport.com/en/an-update-on-beatport-services/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: Copy.com (3-months notice) and CudaDrive are shut down.<ref>{{url|https://community.barracudanetworks.com/forum/index.php?/topic/27488-copy-and-cudadrive-services-will-be-discontinued/}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://blog.barracuda.com/2016/02/01/message-from-gm-of-storage/}}</ref><br />
* May 1: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] Web Albums were shut down.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* March 31: Japanese hosting service "Free Ticket Theater" shut down.<ref>{{url|http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/1601/22/news099.html}}</ref><br />
* March 21: {{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/|Futanariobsession}}, a niche porn site that has been running since 2009/09/01, officially closed its doors.<ref>{{URL|http://futanariobsession.com/site-news/}}</ref> It remained online for over two more years and ultimately disappeared around September 2018.<br />
* March 15: Barnes & Noble's Nook App Store, Nook Video, and the UK Nook Store were shut down.<ref>{{url|http://the-digital-reader.com/2016/03/03/bn-is-shutting-down-its-second-greatest-digital-blunder-on-15-march/}}</ref><br />
* March 15: [[Google]]'s [[Picasa]] was discontinued.<ref>{{URL|http://googlephotos.blogspot.com/2016/02/moving-on-from-picasa.html}}</ref><br />
* February 1: [[notepad.cc]] by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director until 2013) ([http://0bin.net/paste/HHGBysvFQ732TBSy#uNpZlqUYH0C9S-BM/id/GMaXnQi5CFdl9WJM9ZNpplp urlteam results]) More than 900 URLs.<br />
* January 31: resume.io "Crazy-simple online resumes." by Jacob Bijani (Tumblr creative director till 2013)<br />
* January 25: [[Google Code]] shut down.<ref>{{url|http://google-opensource.blogspot.ca/2015/03/farewell-to-google-code.html}}</ref><br />
* January 21: Google Maps Coordinate shut down.<br />
* January 15: Oyster (book service) closed its shell.<ref>{{url|https://www.oysterbooks.com/boh7IeY7}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://blog.oysterbooks.com/post/122942822025/o}}</ref> The public-facing side was [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/?q=oysterbooks saved] with [[ArchiveBot]] on 2015-10-04.<br />
<br />
===2015===<br />
* December 31: [http://www.guildportal.com/ GuildPortal]<br />
* December 19: [https://www.giganews.com/dumptruck/ DumpTruck] - a storage cloud that shut down and removed user data with a 2 months prior notice.<ref>{{url|https://www.goldenfrog.com/blog/dump-truck-to-be-discontinued}}</ref><br />
* October 29: Wizards of the Coast (Magic the Gathering, Dungeons & Dragons etc.) shut down its community forums.<ref>{{url|http://magic.wizards.com/en/articles/archive/news/wizards-coast-community-forums-be-shut-down-2015-09-16}}</ref><br />
* September 30: Club Nintendo shut down worldwide.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo Pipes]] gets clogged up.<ref>{{url|http://pipes.yqlblog.net/post/120705592639/pipes-end-of-life-announcement}}</ref><br />
* September 10: Sony discontinues PlayStation Mobile<ref>{{url|http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-Mobile-Support/INFO-Update-on-PlayStation-Mobile-PSM/td-p/45023971}}</ref>.<br />
* August or September: [[cyberpunkreview.com]]: 80s science fiction fansite and community's domain no longer resolves.<br />
* August 27: [[Blip.tv]] is gone in a blip.<br />
* <s>August 25: [[Blingee]] dies and deletes 9 years of user content</s>.<br />
* July 31: Google Moderator disappears (goes read-only on June 30).<ref>{{url|https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1sPmkuVqoHKue7SlL3tSLrDsyufB8owMeR8AHx4LG8FA/pub}}</ref><br />
* July 24: Surfersparadise closes down most of its websites and content, including the Miss Surfersparadise illustration contest, after making an announcement just 11 days prior. <ref>{{url|http://news.surpara.com/2015/07/35772}}</ref><br />
* July 30: emoj.li, emoji-based social network was set up as a joke but they are shutting it down seriously.<ref>{{url|http://emoj.li}}</ref><br />
* July 10: SoundTracking sunsetted.<ref>{{url|http://www.rhapsody.com/soundtracking}}</ref><br />
* July 6: XFire social profiles are burnt up.<ref>{{url|http://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/39a41v/xfire_social_profiles_shutdown_save_your/}}</ref><br />
* June 30: Freebase shuts down.<br />
* June 13: Hungarian image hosting service [[keptarad.hu]] goes down with nearly 80,000 (or, according to inner source, 1.6 million) pictures, one week after it was scheduled to.<br />
* June 9: [[Pomf.se]] staff decided to go down with 1.6 million files (and thousands of pastes). Fortunately, they contacted ArchiveTeam and let them get a copy. <br />
* May 31: [[Gitorious]] is no longer glorious after acquired by GitLab<ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/03/03/gitlab-acquires-gitorious/}}</ref><br />
* May 30: [[Foodily]] recipes vanished in space void.<br />
* May 17: Codehaus.org got kicked out of the hosting market.<br />
* May<ref>MyDaily between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150505183934/mydaily.co.uk 5 May] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150515055433/mydaily.co.uk 15 May], ParentDish between [https://web.archive.org/web/20150429064859/http://www.parentdish.co.uk/ 29 April] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20150509102010/parentdish.co.uk 9 May]</ref>: [[AOL]] shut down {{URL|http://www.mydaily.co.uk/|MyDaily}} and {{URL|http://www.parentdish.co.uk/|ParentDish}}.<br />
* April 30: Hiveminder shut down (user data could be requested by email until May 8th.)<br />
* April 30: [[Google Helpouts]] shut down.<br />
* April 30: [[Grooveshark]] shut down due to years of copyright issues.<ref>{{url|https://recode.net/2015/04/30/grooveshark-the-free-music-service-that-used-to-scare-the-big-labels-gives-up/}}</ref><br />
* April 17: Yahoo's [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] y.ahoo.it drops its YQL<!-- (sic; Yahoo Query Language) --> table.<br />
* April 10: [[FriendFeed]] shut down, one day later than it was scheduled to.<br />
* April 9: [[Yahoo]] Transliteration got shut down for "focus" reasons. <ref>{{url|http://transliteration.yahoo.com/}}</ref><br />
* April 10: '''[[FriendFeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://friendfeed.com/}}) got unfriended by Facebook.<br />
* March 31: [[Trovebox]] got looted.<ref>{{url|https://trovebox.com/shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* March 31: [[RapidShare]] shut down.<br />
* March 19: PlaceMyPast.com got lost in history<ref>{{url|http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/ncr/2015/03/demise-of-place-my-past-announced.html}}</ref>.<br />
* March 18: Animetake.com, Gogoanime.com, etc. is no-go and takes its anime offline<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/AnimeTake/status/578322431749828608}}</ref><ref>{{url|1=https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20150321231148AALtZBj}}</ref>.<br />
* March 15: twiigs.com did its last poll (server stayed up for about a month afterwards.)<br />
* March 15: [[Google Business Sitebuilder]] became a business sitebreaker.<ref>{{url|https://support.google.com/businesssitebuilder/answer/6098405}}</ref><br />
* March 15: {{url|1=http://www.cloudon.com|2=CloudOn}} was cloud-offed after getting acquired by [[Dropbox]].<br />
* March 12: [[Ovi Store]] is replaced by Opera Mobile Store.<br />
* March 12: [[Roon]] (roon.io) met its doom. The site was supposed to have shut down on Dec. 31, 2014.<br />
* March 8: DrivePop.com popped their drives.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/2wm3ri/apparently_lifetime_subscription_8_months/}}</ref><br />
* March 7: Target Ticket expired.<br />
* March 5: Mail.in.com sent its last mail.<br />
* March 4: ToonTube (by Launchpad Toys) shut down. No site access, login only.<ref>{{url|https://toontube.launchpadtoys.com/login}}</ref><br />
* March 3: [[Internet Centrum]] deletes its phpcities.<br />
* February: CrimeLibrary.com was killed by truTV.<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/CrimeLibrary/status/570021102791094273}}</ref><br />
* February 28: Web hosting service Page ON shuts down, taking several websites with it.<ref>{{url|http://page-on.ocn.ne.jp/close.html}}</ref><br />
* February 26: Apple crashes [[TestFlight]].<br />
* February 23: [[Odysee]] shuts down.<br />
* February 16: Google Talk is shut up.<br />
* February 15: Wizards of the Coast will shut down its LISTSERV mailing lists<ref>{{url|http://greyhawkery.blogspot.ca/2015/01/wotc-closing-down-listserv.html}}</ref>.<br />
* February 13: [[MediaCrush]] got crushed.<br />
* February 11: Spot.us has lost us<ref>{{url|http://www.knightdigitalmediacenter.org/blogs/agahran/2015/02/spotus-ends-insights-community-news-crowdfunding}}</ref>.<br />
* February 7: Cricket Wireless will discontinue Muve Music.<br />
* February 3: {{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/|Joystiq}} (by [[AOL]]) is discontinued<ref>{{URL|http://www.joystiq.com/2015/02/03/there-is-no-end}}</ref> and was shut down on 17 March<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20150317145612/http://www.joystiq.com/ Last capture], [https://web.archive.org/web/20150317170359/http://www.joystiq.com/ Redirect a few hours later]</ref>.<ref>{{URL|https://www.recode.net/2015/01/26/aol-likely-to-shutter-gaming-site-joystiq-in-larger-content-cleanup/}}</ref><br />
* February 3: [[The Unofficial Apple Weblog]] is officially dead<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2015/02/03/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-fish/}}</ref>.<br />
* February 1: Molto melts away.<br />
* February 1: Samsung ChatON goes quiet.<br />
* February 1: [[Inkblazers]] will be Inkerasers<ref>{{url|http://www.inkblazers.com/blogs/Inkblazers-Shutdown/detail-page/10226}}</ref>. <br />
* January or February: {{url|1=http://www.nakido.com/|2=Nakido}}, a file sharing site, resolves a domain parking page.<br />
* January: [[AOL Autos]] is shut down.<br />
* January: Image hosting site Majhost quietly disappeared. Curiously, as of 2017, its whois registration is still renewed regularly. Its LEGO-related counterpart, Brickshelf, remains active.<br />
* January 31: Transformers Universe collapses<ref>{{url|https://www.transformersuniverse.com/en/news/2014/12/important-tu-announcement-161214}}</ref>.<br />
* January 26: [[Brace.io]] has been acquired by Squarespace<ref>{{url|http://blog.brace.io/2015/01/26/goodbye/}}</ref>. (Shutdown originally planned on 19th.)<br />
* January 15: eFreeGuestbooks couldn't compete with social media<ref>{{url|http://www.efreeguestbooks.com/mg/multi.pl?122505}}</ref><br />
* January 15: HP shut down webOS cloud services.<br />
* January 15: Nokia Chat became Nokia's latest victim.<br />
* January 15: HumanIPO publishes its last story.<br />
* January 15: [[vStreamers]] goes offline.<br />
* January 12: DreamBook is burned by DreamHost<ref>{{url|http://www.dreambook.com/}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: [[Nokia Memories]] is forgotten<ref>{{url|1=http://www.nokia.com/ca-en/support/faq/?action=singleTopic&topic=FA144076}}</ref>.<br />
* January 12: Gnome (Gnome Platform, formerly Interclick) and Right Media Exchange (Right Media Inc) is shutdown by Yahoo!.<ref>{{url|http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-shuts-down-right-media-exchange-2015-1}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://adexchanger.com/online-advertising/yahoo-retires-genome-and-right-media-brands-simplifies-around-yahoo-ad-exchange/}}</ref><ref><nowiki>http://yahoo.tumblr.com/post/72591025021/introducing-the-new-yahoo-advertising</nowiki> ([https://archive.is/eGAIq archive.today] copy) (direct link blocked by wiki spamfilter)</ref><br />
* January 2: Leelah Alcorn's Tumblr blog and other online presence is removed<ref>[[wikipedia:Death_of_Leelah_Alcorn]]</ref>.<br />
* January 2: [[Nokia Trailers]], which was supposed to shut down on December 31, 2014, shut down.<br />
* January 1: everfree.net wasn't forever.<br />
* January 1: [[tvtag]] was untagged.<br />
<br />
===2014===<br />
<br />
* December 31: Yahoo! Classic Games shut down.<br />
* December 31: nRelate closed.<br />
* December 31: Samsung Video Hub and WatchON shut down.<br />
* December 31: Virginia Tech Filebox shut down.<ref>{{url|http://computing.vt.edu/kb/entry/3997}}</ref><br />
* December 27: [[Yahoo! Directory]] shut down 5 days early.<ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-directory-closes-211784}}</ref><br />
* December 24: Slide Bureau closed down.<br />
* December 23: Magneto shut down.<br />
* December 22: Yahoo! Profiles was—Who are you again?.<br />
* December 21: Yahoo! sunsetted Maktoob forums.<br />
* December 20: Toontown Infinite, a fan-made Toontown Online revival, shut down.<ref>{{url|https://www.reddit.com/r/Toontown/comments/2pwgfj/tti_closing/}}</ref><br />
* December 18: Everest.com and its app died from altitude sickness<ref>{{url|http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/18/everest-the-peter-thiel-backed-app-for-achieving-your-dreams-shuts-down/}}</ref><br />
* December 17: thatguywiththeglasses.com got replaced by channelawesome.com.<br />
* December 16: [[Google News]] shut down in Spain.<ref>{{url|1=http://googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.ca/2014/12/an-update-on-google-news-in-spain.html?m=1}}</ref><br />
* December 15: [[Viddy]] and [[Epic]], video sharing services acquired by Fullscreen, shut down.<br />
* December 15: [[Relay.im]], bought by Kik, shut down.<br />
* December 12: BigPond Music shut down.<br />
* December 12: {{url|1=http://allgame.com|2=Allgame.com}} ran out of quarters. It was saved with ArchiveBot [https://archive.org/details/archiveteam_archivebot_go_20141119080001 here] (and available in the Wayback Machine).<br />
* December 10: [[ZipList]] got zipped up.<br />
* December 9: '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' was raided. ''(Back online February 1, 2015.)''<br />
* December 5: Nokia Sync was discontinued.<br />
* December 2: Verizon shut down SugarString.<br />
* December 2: [[The Spearhead]], a large men's rights blog, has been shut down because the owner's wife had a baby.<ref>{{URL|http://rooshnme.blogspot.com/2014/12/bill-price-retires-spearhead.html}}</ref><br />
* November: <s>OpenBitTorrent is mysteriously no longer tracking</s><ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/worlds-largest-bittorrent-tracker-goes-down-141205/}}</ref>. (Back online by Jan 6, 2015) <ref>{{url|http://torrentfreak.com/top-torrent-trackers-return-online-150106/}}</ref><br />
* November: [[Jux]] went down before their official shutdown date, November 30, 2014.<br />
* November 30: Tree Puncher (Minecraft server host) got chopped down.<br />
* November 1: [[Easel]] shut down.<br />
* November 1: [[Qwiki]] slowed down.<br />
* October 30: [[Listn]] was shut down by Beatport.<br />
* October 24: Haivl.com, Vietnam's 9gag equivalent, shut down by the government authorities.<br />
* October 11: [[OhLife]] became NoLife.<br />
* October 1: '''[[Quizilla]]''' fizzled away. <br />
* September 30: '''[[Verizon Personal Web Space]]''' shut down.<br />
* September 30: '''[[Orkut]]''' got kut, [[Google]] thankfully left a public archive.<br />
* September 30: [[Yahoo! Education]] dropped out.<br />
* September 30: Petition Online shut down.<br />
* September 30: The [[National Atlas]] died.<ref>{{url|http://www.nationalatlas.gov/status.html}}</ref><br />
* September 25: <s>[[TwitPic]] shuts down.</s><ref>{{url|http://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/}}</ref><br />
* September 17: [[TuneWiki]] (not a wiki)<br />
* August: Hungarian microblogging service [[mommo.hu|Mommo]] disappeared.<br />
* August: [[Blogter.hu]] died after long illness.<br />
* August 31: [[Svpply]] and Want by Svpply were shut down.<br />
* August 31: The [[Yahoo! Contributor Network]] is destroyed by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 15: '''[[Heello]]''' said goooodbye.<br />
* August 10: '''[[Fotopedia]]''' leaves a photo finish.<br />
* August 5: '''[[Justin.tv]]''' shuts down completely.<br />
* August 1: '''[[Yahoo! Voices]]''', formerly Associated Content, is shut up by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* July/August: Potential massive Quebec newspaper shutdown around August 2, 74 newspapers were bought by {{url|1=http://blog.fagstein.com/2014/05/28/competition-bureau-quebecor-tc-newspapers/|2=Transcontinental}}.<br />
* July 31: [[Shortmail]] shut down.<br />
* July 31: [[Snapdisk]] got snapped.<br />
* July 31: [[Yahoo! Shine]] went dark.<br />
* July 31: Pinterest acquires Icebergs.com<ref>{{url|http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/technology/business/pinterest-buys-startup-icebergs-1.1728612}}</ref><br />
* July 3: {{url|1=http://www.thegridto.com|2=The Grid}} (magazine in Toronto) printed its last issue on July 3rd 2014 and the website disappeared some time after.<br />
* June 30: Hungarian [[iWiW]] social network closes; data not available from this date at all.<br />
* June 30: [[Me2Day]], a [[Twitter]]-like social network, kicks the bucket.<br />
* June 15: '''[[Rawporter]]''' enters "into an exclusive business partnership", deletes user photos and videos (which we rescue.)<br />
* June 1: '''[[Ubuntu One]]''' shuts down, gives its users until July 31 to grab their data.<br />
* May 20: Nintendo shut down [[Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection]] (except for the Wii and DSi Shop Channels).<br />
* May 6: [[Userscripts.org]] mysteriously vanished. {{url|http://userscripts-mirror.org}} popped up not long after.<br />
* April: {{url|http://jderef.com/}} is served a takedown notice by Oracle.<br />
* April 30: [[qik]].com shut down.<br />
* April 18: [[Twitter Music]] shuts down.<br />
* April 15: Beats shuts down [[MOG]].<br />
* April 14: [[CGHub]] quietly closes down. {{url|https://www.facebook.com/264398057068394/photos/a.265401656968034.1073741828.264398057068394/265401163634750/}}<br />
* April 7: [[Vizify]].com was acquired by [[Yahoo!]]. Bios were deleted on April 7, 2014. (Users could opt-in to extend date to September 4, 2014.)<br />
* March: [[Kephost.hu]] stepped off with half a million pictures.<br />
* March 31: [[IntoNow]], a [[Yahoo!]] acquisition, will ceased to function.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Mochi Media]]''' realizes Flash is dead and the game is over.<br />
* March 28: [[Readmill]], a social e-reader thing, is closing its doors on July 1, 2013. They have quite a few user pages documenting who read what, who says what and what people think of books.<br />
* March 19: <s>[[Full Disclosure]] ({{url|http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/}}) is a security/hacker mailing list that was {{url|1=http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Mar/332|2=suddenly suspended}}.</s><br />
* March 17: [[doo]] shut down.<br />
* March 11: [[Intel AppUp]] shut down.<br />
* March 3: '''[[My Opera]]''' closes its member profiles.<br />
* February: [[Videogum]] is shutting down.<ref>{{url|http://www.videogum.com/800151/hey-guys-we-have-to-talk-to-you-about-something/letter-from-the-editor/}}</ref><br />
* February 28: [[Outbox]] shuts down to rebuild itself.<ref>{{url|http://blog.outboxmail.com/post/74086768959/outbox-is-shutting-down-a-note-of-gratitude}}</ref><br />
* February 21: [[Yahoo!]] crashed [[Cloud Party]].<br />
* February 14: [[Gatsby]], not sure whether to file this here or under "Dead as a Doornail". {{url|1=http://gatsby.im/|=2The site's frontpage}} says that it's dead, but it's unclear whether hosted content is still available. Awaiting {{url|1=https://vpsboard.com/topic/3475-gatsbyim-discontinued/#entry52574|2=a response}} as to what happened to the data.<br />
* February 7: Schemer.com shut down by Google. (Time of death: 2014-02-08 00:13:52,184 EST.)<br />
* January 21: DrawQuest and '''[[Canv.as|Canvas]]''' shuts down. moot writes his {{url|1=http://chrishateswriting.com/post/74083032842/today-my-startup-failed|2=shut down notice.}}<br />
* Date unknown: '''[[dl.tv]]''' {{url|http://dl.tv}} There is no new tech podcast on here for over a year. Good idea to start backing up all podcast on this site. Same for Crankygeeks. {{url|http://www.crankygeeks.com/}}<br />
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===2013===<br />
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* December 26: [[Wretch]] and [[Yahoo! Blog]] is closed by Yahoo!.<br />
* December 21: {{url|1=http://clanbase.org|2=ClanBase}} is no more. The company that bought the website in 2004, Global Gaming League, decided to "move on" after basically running the website into the ground.<br />
* December 20: [[WinAmp]], home of the Winamp media player, shuts down.<br />
* December 18: [[Warhammer|Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning]] closes.<br />
* December 15: [[Everpix]], a photo-sharing service, shuts down. {{url|https://github.com/everpix/Everpix-Intelligence}} was saved, the rest lost.<ref>{{url|http://www.everpix.com/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/5/5039216/everpix-life-and-death-inside-the-worlds-best-photo-startup}}</ref> <br />
* December 12: [[Hyves]] closes its social network, but it's now got games!<br />
* November 18 (and back through 2012): Disney nuked a bunch of online games: Pixie Hollow Online, Cars Online, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, Toontown Online. The futures of the large fan forums and an extremely completist wiki are doubtful. {{url|http://fairies.disney.com/pixie-hollow-faq}} {{url|http://www.vmkforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.carsonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.pixiehollowforums.com/}} {{url|http://www.disneysonlineworlds.com/index.php/Main_Page}} The Pixie Hollow fan forum specifically announced that they will not be archived, and the Cars Online forum seems to have a similar warning, while the other forums for the shut down games will apparently be migrated into this: {{url|http://www.mmocentralforums.com/}}<br />
* November 11: [[Bre.ad]] is dead.<br />
* November 7: [[Dopplr]] drops out from the web.<br />
* November 1: [[Zapd]] deletes its user data from the website.<br />
* November 1: [[iGoogle]] shuts down.<br />
* November: [[BerliOS]] is barely alive.<br />
* November: [[Bitmit]], a Bitcoin marketplace, shut down.<br />
* November: Going to call this one before it even starts, friends: '''{{url|1=https://www.legacylocker.com/|2=Legacy Locker}}''' promises lifetime control of your data and return of your data to loved ones for just $300 for "lifetime", or $30/year. Archive Team says to just say '''No'''.<ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/03/10/AR2009031001211.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: Nintendo shut down {{url|1=http://www.fullscreenmario.com|2=Full Screen Mario}}. It's {{url|1=https://github.com/Diogenesthecynic/FullScreenMario|2=GitHub repository}} should be archived in case it goes down.<br />
* October 21: [[isoHunt]] was always going to shut down after an MPAA settlement. However, it did so earlier than expected to prevent archival efforts, claiming that 95% of torrents were available elsewhere. No mention of the metadata though.<br />
* October 11: RomBay shut down, now redirects to {{url|http://www.theoldcomputer.com}}<ref>{{url|https://twitter.com/rombay_com/status/388768860284788736}}</ref><br />
* September 30: [[OMGPOP]] shut down, and now redirects to Zynga's main site. There was a {{url|https://www.facebook.com/SaveOMGPOP|petition}} to stop it from closing, which did not gain much traction.<br />
* September 30: [[MSN TV]], aka WebTV, no longer accessible.<br />
* September 1st: Thebox.bz, a TV torrents tracker/site, shuts down.<ref>{{url|https://torrentfreak.com/major-tv-torrent-site-thebox-bz-calls-it-quits-130829/}}</ref><br />
* September: [[Freeblog.hu]] closes without notifying their users. Unknown number of blogs lost.<br />
* August-September: {{url|http://fileden.com/}}, a file hosting website, suddenly shuts down, giving their users little to no warning.<br />
* August 31: <s>[[Jux]] announced that they would be shutting down on August 31, 2013.</s> On July 17, 2013, Jux announced that they would not shut down, apparently due to financial support from one of their members.<br />
* August 31: [[Rockmelt]] shuts down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August 21: [[Amplicate]] vanishes, leaves behind 502 Bad Gateway errors.<br />
* August 20: [[Catch]] closes its doors.<br />
* August 19: {{url|http://wowcoolfactsaboutgaming.com|Wow! Cool Facts About Gaming}} shuts down, thankfully leaves everything up.<br />
* August 9: [[Google Latitude]] shut down.<br />
* August 5: [[Astrid]] is shut down after being acquired by [[Yahoo!]].<br />
* August: [[4chan|Chanarchive.org]], a site dedicated to saving select quality threads from 4chan, disappears one last time after a hardware failure, never to return.<br />
* July 31: All third party downloads disappear from [[Yahoo! Downloads]].<br />
* July 25: [[Yahoo! Stars India]] is shut down.<br />
* July 24: [[Snapjoy]], acquired by Dropbox in December 2012, is shut down.<br />
* July 19: [[Google]] shuts down Alfred.<br />
* July 9: [[Yahoo! Neighbors]] shuts down a day after it was supposed to.<br />
* July 8: AltaVista, one of the oldest search engines, shuts down.<br />
* July 1: FoxyTunes and Yahoo! RSS Alerts disappear from the web.<br />
* June 30: [[Yahoo!]] demolishes Yahoo! WebPlayer.<br />
* June 28: [[Yahoo!]] shuts down Axis, Browser Plus and Citizen Sports.<br />
* June 28: Nintendo shuts down all of its WiiConnect24 services, except for the Mii Channel, Wii Shop Channel, Mario Kart Wii Channel, and the Wii Speak Channel.<br />
* June 4: '''Adrenaline Vault''', a video game review site, has this posted on their Facebook profile: "Over the past weekend hackers hit the site with a DoS attack. Everything had been wiped and with no backups, everything was lost. It has been decided that Avault will remain closed. Rest in Peace, Avault."<br />
* June: '''{{url|1=http://ompldr.org/|2=Omploader}}''', an anonymous file upload site, has announced that they are about $2500 in the hole on hosting costs, and that there is possibility of their shutting down if donations do not improve. It stands to reason that there are some files among their database that are worth saving. An attempt to contact the administrator for more information and to be given a dump of the site was made, and he responded saying he'd be happy to rsync a copy of the data after some legal issues have been settled.<br />
* April 30: '''[[Posterous]]''', a blogging and life streaming platform, shut down its "Posterous Spaces" to focus on Twitter.<br />
* April 30: '''Circalit''' decides in March that {{url|1=http://circalit.createsend4.com/t/ViewEmail/r/26E73577D4220DBD/4433C195741969884AB3169DA1FD82E9|2=deleting is easier than migrating}} its prose-writing users.<br />
* April 30: '''[[schülerVZ]]''' once the most used social network for pupils in Germany, closed its doors.<br />
* April 20: '''Microsoft Collection Book''', a site dedicated to collecting information about Windows betas, shuts down due to a C&D from Microsoft. It reopened on May 5 as '''The Collection Book'''.<br />
* March 31: '''Zug.com''', a comedy website running since 1995 closed down, and replaced all its pages with a goodbye image.<br />
* March 29: {{url|http://wrathofheroes.warhammeronline.com/}} Play 4 Free Warhammer Online: Wrath of Heroes (WOH) shut down<br />
* March 25: [[Epinions]] locked out its users.<br />
* March 24: '''{{url|1=http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/|2=The OpenSolaris Hub}}''' and '''all sites under opensolaris.org''', including the site hosting the OpenSolaris source code, were decommissioned by Oracle. OpenSolaris was an open source computer operating system based on Solaris and originally created by Sun Microsystems. After the acquisition of Sun Microsystems in 2010, Oracle decided to discontinue open development of the core software, and replaced the OpenSolaris distribution model with the proprietary Solaris Express.<br />
* February 28: '''{{url|1=http://www.stickam.com|2=Stickam}}''', a major video chat service, shut down. Users were emailed and given the ability to download any recorded videos for 3 weeks in advance of the closing date.<br />
* February 21st: '''{{url|1=http://1up.com|2=1up.com}}''', {{url|1=http://www.ugo.com/|2=ugo.com}}, and {{url|1=http://www.gamespy.com/|2=gamespy.com}} all run out of lives.<br />
* February: [[Regretsy]] shuts down.<br />
* January 31: [[Do.com]] shuts down.<br />
* January: {{url|http://go.to}}, an [[URLTeam|URL shortener]], has all of its domains on sale on Sedo. No official word just yet, though.<br />
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===2012===<br />
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* December: {{url|1=http://pic2.piczo.com/go/home|2=Piczo}}, a social network for teens, has announced that it's shutting down.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://gamecorner.pl|2=Gamecorner.pl}}''', a Polish video game news portal, was closed in May, and later wiped entirely on October 29. The articles have been retained at the publisher's other video game portal, Polygamia.pl, but the article comments and the forums are gone (It also had user blogs, but they seemed to have been erased much earlier.)<br />
* September 26: {{url|1=http://cia.vc|2=CIA.vc}}, a central distributor of FOSS commit messages to IRC channels, got its database deleted by its web host. There were no backups. It had been running for a decade (although it had changed maintainership a year before).<br />
* August 17: '''Ponibooru''' (not to be confused with PoniBooru -- http://pbooru.com -- which began in 2012-07-17[http://pbooru.com/index.php?page=post&s=view&id=3]), a famous My Little Pony-related imageboard, {{url|1=http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/06/ponibooru-shuts-down.html|2=shut down}} by August 17. All of the images themselves (but not the comments) were available to download via torrents, though it is unknown if the torrents are still available. A possibly full torrent dump is available at [https://minuette.net/Pony/torrents/ minuette.net, which hosts the image files on the website]. Currently the most popular/upvoted images are available via another imageboard, Derpibooru, but their copy is incomplete.<br />
* August: [[Parodius Networking]], which hosts numerous web sites related to classic video game platforms, died<br />
* July 30: '''{{url|1=http://kasabi.com|2=Kasabi}}''', a data publishing platform created by {{url|1=http://talis.com|2=Talis}} was {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/09/shutting-down-kasabi/|2=announced}} to be closing on July 30, 2012. While the service has only been around for ~2 years it represents a unique look at services for Linked Data, and contains a variety of datasets. Kasabi has a {{url|1=http://blog.kasabi.com/2012/07/16/archive-of-datasets/|2=blog post}} that announces the availability of datasets contained in Kasabi to ease archiving.<br />
* July 26: [[noob.hu]] doesn't accept more images. Uploaded pictures still there long after, though.<br />
* July 1: The Polish social network '''[[wikipedia:Grono.net]]''' has disappeared, replaced by a file hosting service '''grono.net.pl''' on July 1, 2012. Most content from the old site was supposed to be migrated, but, according to a message on the main page, technical difficulties have delayed the migration by one or two weeks. It's getting increasingly late...<br />
* June 30: '''Apple''' '''[[MobileMe]]''', '''[[MobileMe#iDisk | iDisk]]''', '''[[MobileMe#web.me.com / iWeb | iWeb]]''', and included services. This major website and these services will shut down in {{url|1=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597|2=2012}}, simply because web hosting is boring and they want to focus on the exciting "iCloud". <ref>{{url|http://www.apple.com/mobileme/transition.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4597}}</ref><br />
* April 30: Google Wave shut down on April 30th.<br />
* April: '''{{url|1=http://blog.convore.com/post/17951919109/convore-shutting-down-april-1st|2=convore.com}}''' shut down in April 2012. The site hosted IRC conversations, and involved a lot of JavaScript.<br />
* February: Hungarian free hosting provider {{url|1=http://eplanet.hu|2=Eplanet}} stops free service as of February 2012; unknown number of pages disappeared and probably deleted.<br />
* January 19: The popular file hosting service '''Megaupload''' has been shut down in January 2012; with it, '''Megavideo''' too is gone. It was mainly used for copyright infringement, but lots of perfectly regular files were hosted on it.<br />
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==== Because we know better ====<br />
* [[Fileplanet]] <ref>{{url|http://www.fileplanet.com/}}</ref>. Already fully archived.<br />
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===2011===<br />
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* End of 2011: '''{{url|1=http://ghost.cc/|2=Ghost Cloud Computing}}''' became a ghost of itself <ref>{{url|http://ghost.cc/home/SignUp.jsp}}</ref>.<br />
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* Late October/November: '''{{url|1=http://itdied.com/|2=It Died}}''' by Glenn Fleishman. a site dedicated to indicating sites that have died, itself died. (Keep the {{url|1=http://itdied.com/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}} around in case that changes, though).<br />
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* September/October: The closure of '''Google Buzz''' was announced in October. Luckily Google released a tool to download your content from it called [[Google Takeout]]: {{url|https://www.google.com/takeout/}} Besides Buzz, Google shut down many of its other minor services, such as Aardvark, Sidewiki, and others: {{url|http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html}}<br />
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* August/September: '''[[Google Labs]]''' closed. <ref>{{url|1=http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2388881,00.asp#fbid=7kZ39-1XQUH}}</ref> and many great/experimental one of a kind tools vanished. Among many others "google sets" that had been around since a long time, "City Tours" some includeing user generated content and the exciting "google squared" <ref>{{url|http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ZaGO7GjCqAI/SibWbewOy5I/AAAAAAAAQBM/8lb7UA6AWPY/s640/google-squared-species.png}}</ref> that was an approach to pass more artificial intelligence to the user than conventional searchengines (compareable to wolframalpha) but seemingly based on a bigger/vast pool of data just like standard google searchresults). Since there is hardly any obvious rationale(?) for closeing down "Google Labs" it pictures google as being either less supportive or even hostile to new inoventions and less responsible with usergenerated content or more secretive about their ongoing projects than one might thought before or than Google might was before indeed. 1 Jan 2011 [[User:Whatsgoingonwithgoogle|Whatsgoingonwithgoogle]] 18:06, 17 October 2011 (UTC)<br />
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* June 3: '''[[Forums.starwars.com]]''': {{url|1=http://www.starwars.com|2=StarWars.Com}} {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com/ann.jspa?annID=3|2=announced}} the closure of their {{url|1=http://forums.starwars.com|2=forums}} on June 3, 2011. (Forum will lock on 29 April 2011) {{url|1=http://theforce.net/latestnews/story/StarWarscom_Forums_Shutting_Down_In_June_137497.asp|2=tf.n report}}<br />
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* June 1: '''[[Prodigy Pages]]''' shut down on June 1,2011.<br />
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* May 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.myphotoalbum.com/|2=MyPhotoAlbum.com}}''' closed on May 3, 2011 and deleted everything on May 31, 2011. Users who heard about the closure were given the options of either transferring their photos and videos over to dotPhoto.com or purchasing a DVD with their content for $15.00.<br />
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* May 24: [[Yahoo]]! has {{url|1=http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/24/yahoo-to-shut-down-mybloglog-on-may-24/|2=announced}} that '''[[MyBlogLog]]''' will be closed on 24 May 2011. '''UPDATE:''' Yup.<br />
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* April 16: '''[[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]''' shutdown on 16. April 2011 without warning. Ongoing reconstruction Efforts. A lot of Images and Articles are probably lost. (The replacement OhInternet is a very strongly sanitized Version of ED.) <s>ED is claiming that they are in danger of shutting down. Despite the controversial nature of many articles hosted on the wiki, this would be a big loss of historical records.</s><br /><font color="red">A lot of the Images and Pages are still missing. Help appreciated.</font><br />
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* March: '''{{url|1=http://team.gaia.com/blog/2010/3/important-gaia-announcement|2=Gaia Community}}''' shut down at the end of March.<br />
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* March 31: '''[[Yahoo! Video]]''' shut down on March 31st, 2011 and was reborn as a video portal.<br />
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* March 16: '''Microsoft''' closed '''Windows Live Spaces''' on March 16, 2011. Spaces owners had the option to migrate their blogs to '''WordPress''' or to make copies. As of January 4, 2011, they could no longer edit their existing Spaces.<ref>{{url|http://explore.live.com/windows-live-spaces-help-center}}</ref><br />
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* February 22: The [[Insurgency Wiki]] is a wiki with a community that created multiple guides and raids for Anonymous, in a similar manner to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]. It's status has always been unclear, with many mirrors coming and going. But as of Feb. 22, 2012, the last mirror, Partyvan.info, looks like it has some damning database error. Just in case, the Bibliotheca Anonoma has made a full backup, including all available images available.<br />
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* February/June: The IRC logging service {{url|1=http://irseek.com|2='''IRSeeK'''.com}} shut down. Back in 2007, it had [https://web.archive.org/web/20080204010231/http://www.irseek.com/blog/?p=3 controversially] used un-labeled bots to archive (and publish) logs of IRC channels without notification or permission.<br />
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* January 17: '''The Sims Carnival''': <ref>{{url|http://www.simscarnival.com/games/CarnivalMonkey/35068/The-Sims-Carnival-Says-Goodbye}}</ref><br />
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* January 1: '''[[ProHosting]]''' {{url|http://free.prohosting.com}} closed hosted sites on 1 Jan 2011<br />
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* January: The wiki hosting site '''wik.is''', hosted by MindTouch, shut down on the first week of January 2011; the explanation being that "in order to continue to support the growing needs of our MindTouch Express users, we are offering MindTouch Cloud", which "opens up additional features and functionality that are not available in Wik.is.". The only way you'd know all that is if you receive a warning e-mail from MindTouch. They offer to keep your site running by "upgrading to our paid Cloud version by {{url|1=http://campaigns.mindtouch.com/Wik.isDecomissioningMigrationInterest.html|2=filling out this short form.}}"<br />
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===2010===<br />
* December 17: The '''{{url|1=http://www.symbian.org/|2=Symbian Foundation}}''' will shut down its websites, Twitter account, Facebook page, bug trackers and remove access to its source code on 17 Dec 2010<ref>{{url|http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/}}</ref><ref>{{url|http://developer.symbian.org/wiki/Symbian_Foundation_web_sites_to_shut_down}}</ref>.<br />
* December: '''{{url|1=http://machinima.com|2=Machinima.com}}''' was reworked in December 2010, and by "reworked" we mean massacred. Most notably, the forums were deleted, as well as tons of older articles. <br />
* November: '''{{url|1=http://www.brightfuse.net|2=BrightFuse}}''' was a small social network started as a side venture by CareerBuilder.com in August 2009. It was quietly shutdown November 2010 without much fanfare. At its height it has 100k users.<br />
* October 31: '''isweb lite''', the Japanese GeoCities, shut down on October 31. Thousands of personal homepages of artists and illustrators were deleted forever. A tiny sample of the pages deleted: <ref>{{url|http://togetter.com/li/64058}}</ref> '''isweb''' itself (paid hosting!) will shut down in May 2012. <ref>{{url|http://portal.faq.rakuten.co.jp/app/answers/detail/a_id/15387/}}</ref><br />
* September/October: '''{{url|1=http://closing.vox.com/|2=Vox}}''' shut down at the end of September 2010.<br />
* Mid-2010: '''[[JuniorNet]]''', a subscription based online portal for children, was quietly shut down nearly a decade after it dot-bombed and was acquired by former employees.<br />
* May 31: {{url|http://www.cgillust.com/|cgillust.com}} essentially closes down its galleries, and members are migrated to [[Portalgraphics.net]]<br />
* April/May: '''{{url|1=http://www.kidradd.com|2=Kid Radd}}''' was a notable and quite popular webcomic which vanished when AT&T discontinued their Worldnet service. Thankfully, an archive is available, e.g. {{url|1=http://tangent128.name/depot/kid_radd.zip|2=here}}.<br />
* March 31: '''[[Extra.hu]]''', largest free hosting Hungarian hosting provider goes paid-only; deletes unknown number of free sites on 31 March 2010.<br />
* March 1: '''{{url|1=http://storytlr.com/|2=Storytlr}}''', a lifestreaming site, stopped hosting March 1st 2010.<br />
* March: '''{{url|1=http://platinum.ac|2=Platinum}}''', once a popular Finnish web site associated with electronic dance music, clubbing/raving, and the other related things was closed in March after been running for years. All the content posted to the forums of the site was, however, obtained and made available by {{url|1=http://klubitus.org|2=Klubitus}}, another related portal popular in Finland.<br />
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===2009===<br />
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* December 6: '''favrd''', a website that aggregated favorite tweets from twitter, abruptly shut down on December 6, 2009 with absolutely no warning, killing off thousands of highlighted entries added by group-consensus over significant months. As a reward for their efforts, founder Dean Allen wrote this helpful message: ''"Alas, stars on Twitter have become mere take-out menus hung on the doors of other restaurants. There are still lots of clever and funny things to read every day, but finding these is no longer a challenge â you already follow your sources. Sites like this one now serve mainly as fuel for emotional up-fuckedness in the guise of a game. Just an idea: next time you see something you like, write the person who made it a note telling them so. Even better, explain why. Take care!"'' Advice to people who want to work with Dean Allen's projects in the future: don't.<br />
* November: '''here.is''' seems to permanently off-line. It ceased to re-direct email for some time ago and as per 11-23-09 it doesn't redirect even URLs any longer.<br />
[[Image:Encarta.jpg|right|300px|Discontinuedpedia]] <br />
* October 31: '''Microsoft Encarta''', the online encyclopedia with a 15+ year history, is being shut down. The US version will shut down on October 31, 2009 and the Japanese version on December 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.reuters.com/article/CMPTRS/idUSLV28230720090331}}</ref><br />
* October 26: '''[[GeoCities]]''': Shock! Repeat Offender '''[[Yahoo]]''' announced that it would close GeoCities "later this year...We'll send you more details this summer." <ref>{{url|http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/geocities/geocities-05.html}}</ref>. The plug was pulled on October 26th 2009. See the [[Geocities]] project page for more details.<br />
* August 31: '''Microsoft's SoapBox''' has announced it is getting off said soapbox on August 31, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2009/07/soapbox-microsofts-youtube-dies-on-august-31-2009.ars}}</ref>. <br />
* August 30ish: '''ArchNacho's & TortillaGodzilla's Quality ROMs''', a site that hosted ROMs for NES, SNES, and Genesis games, which has announced its effective death back in January 2006, is now finally completely inaccessible, both on its original domain {{url|http://www.qualityroms.com}}, and on the site that the domain masked {{url|http://home.no.net/qualrom/}}. The Wayback Machine contains a mirror of the site up through August 30, 2007, which is after all updates to the site ceased. All ROMs hosted on QualityRoms are included in the mirror and can be downloaded from there.<br />
* August 24: '''Microsoft's Popfly''' <ref>{{url|http://popflyteam.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!51018025071FD37F!336.entry}}</ref> pops off into nowhere on August 24, 2009.<br />
* July 13: '''Yahoo! 360''' announces <ref>{{url|1=http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-1qCkw2Ehaak.hdNZkEAzDrpa4Q--?cq=1}}</ref> that they are closing up shop on July 13, 2009. Of course, you can still register an account but that's the first thing you're told.<br />
* June 25: '''Imeem''', a site for sharing music and convincing yourself that what you're hearing is good, {{url|1=http://blog.imeem.com/2009/06/25/simplifying-imeem/|2=announced}} on June 25, 2009 that they were "simplifying" things and deleting all user-generated photos and videos uploaded by users. They gave everyone '''five days''' to get their photos off, and then extended it to ''twenty days'' from the ensuing hue and cry. The uploaded videos had no way to extract them back.<br />
* June 15: '''{{url|1=http://www.jumpcut.com|2=Jumpcut.com}}''' became the latest example of Yahoo!'s awesome respect for history and data, announcing the closure of the video hosting and editing site, for June 15, 2009. A software utility has been released to allow you to download the movies from Jumpcut. Otherwise, you are not in great shape - Yahoo says you can move your videos to Flickr, but Flickr cuts off at 90 seconds. A lot of homemade video is going to disappear.<br />
* May 31: '''Rejaw''', a microblogging platform, has announced that it will be shutting down on May 31 2009 <ref>{{url|http://rejaw.com/rejaw/shout/OOfs2wUaLql}}</ref>. It's gone.<br />
* May 21: '''MSN QnA Beta''' closed on May 21 <ref>{{url|http://liveqna.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2933A3E375F68349!2244.entry}}</ref><br />
* April 20: '''{{url|1=http://www.coghead.com|2=Coghead}}''', " a web-based service for building and hosting custom online database applications and a software as a platform 'utility computing' company", announced it had closed up on February 20, 2009, and that the site would go down permanently on April 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|1=http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=349}}</ref>. It did.<br />
* April 17: '''{{url|1=http://furl.net/|2=Furl}}''' was a social bookmarking service that had been around since 2004. It was acquired by Diigo (announced on March 9), allowed people to opt into transferring their bookmarks to Diigo, and shut down on April 17.<ref>blog.diigo.com/2009/03/16/welcome-furl-users/ (link blocked by spam filter)</ref><ref>{{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/03/09/diigo-buys-web-page-clipping-service-furl-away-from-looksmart/|2=Techcrunch post}}</ref><br />
[[Image:HP upline goes offline.jpg|right|300px|Did we say upline? We meant offline.]]<br />
* March 31: It doesn't get more ironic than this: '''{{url|1=https://www.upline.com/|2=Upline}}''', a HP-owned online backup service, is being shut down.<ref>{{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10173136-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5}}</ref> ''They almost immediately turned off the backup process,'' and then announced all your restorable data would go offline on March 31, roughly 30 days after announcement. Surprise!<br />
* March 31: Google acquired '''{{url|1=http://etherpad.com|2=Etherpad}}''' on 4th December, 2009 and immediately {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/google-acquires-appjet|2=announced}} a March 2010 content deletion date. After community pressure, Google has decided to {{url|1=http://etherpad.com/ep/blog/posts/etherpad-back-online-until-open-sourced|2=open source the Etherpad codebase}}, keeping the service alive until then. The site closed down shortly after. Fortunately there are now are [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+alternatives numerous] [http://www.google.com/search?q=etherpad+clone alternatives].<br />
* March 30: '''[[Yahoo_Briefcase|Yahoo Briefcase]]''', a positively ancient site run by Yahoo that provided you with 25 free megabytes of storage space for your junk, sent a mail to what were likely years-old contact addresses to tell them they had a little more than a month to get their files out, March 30, 2009. After that, the files would be deleted. What, Yahoo doesn't have a spare memory stick to store what must be the amount of files in this service for the next year?<br />
* March 25: '''Yahoo! Farechase''', an airline fare aggregation and searching site, was shut down on March 25, 2009. It had previously been its own company, founded in 1999, and purchased by Yahoo! in 2004. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/Yahoo-buys-travel-company/2100-1032_3-5300561.html}}</ref><br />
* March 20: '''{{url|http://www.spiralfrog.com|Spiralfrog}}''', "a FREE service that lets you download over 3 million songs and videos, legally and safely", pulled up stakes in the night and completely shut down on March 20, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/web/news/2009/03/ad-based-music-service-spiralfrog-croaks.ars}}</ref> Things looked so promising in 2006: <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2006/08/7611.ars}}</ref> Oh, and sadly, all your music you downloaded from them will stop working within 30 days or less. <ref>{{url|http://arstechnica.com/old/content/2007/09/spiralfrog-debuts-with-free-ad-supported-music-downloads.ars}}</ref><br />
* March 17: '''{{url|http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/|The Seattle Post-Intelligencer}}''' was {{url|1=http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/395463_newspapersale10.html|2=put up for sale}}, but found no buyer, and the print edition stopped on March 17th 2009 after 146 years. <ref>{{url|http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/columnists/zeeck/story/591181.html}}</ref> Initially, reports indicated it would shut down the website as well as the paper, but a plan was apparently in place to run a "skeleton crew" on an internet-only site, which continues to operate.<br />
* March 11: '''{{url|1=http://www.videosift.com|2=Videosift}}''' had a combination database and backup failure, losing: "All votes, ever. All member usernames who registered later than around 12 months ago. All member rankings. Your member profile info (e.g., bio, favorite sift, etc.), if any. All activity that happened on the site yesterday, March 11." This is unlikely to kill the site, but an awful lot of data was lost.<br />
* March 6: '''{{url|1=http://www.scoopt.com/|2=Scoopt}}''', a "citizen journalism" site run by Getty images to allow the uploading of images by citizen journalists and the chance to be licensed to news organizations, announced they would no longer take any new imagery after February 6, 2009, and will shut down completely on March 6, 2009. Some content uploaders "may" be contacted about being absorbed into the main Getty site.<br />
[[Image:20090227.jpg|right|300px]]<br />
* Sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20090228114022/http://music.download.com/ February 28th] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20090323020108/http://music.download.com/ March 23d]: '''{{url|1=http://music.download.com/|2=music.download.com}}''' was redirected to Last.fm. The free music it offered does not seem to have been transferred, however (the band Ancient Teknologi had several tracks available on music.download.com, but only one available on Last.fm). As of 28 February, it claimed to have 111.052 MP3s.<br />
* February 28: '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' shut down their '''Tripod''' hosting service on February 28, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/18/AR2009011800224.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-lycos-europe-killing-tripod-customers-warned-to-back-up/}}</ref> Note that Lycos Europe are distinct from Lycos.com. '''[[Lycos Europe]]''' is also shuttering the social networking site '''Jubii''' as of February 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/18/lycos-kills-jubii-while-theyre-at-it/}}</ref> A Danish version of the site will remain open for the time being.<br />
* February 27: '''The {{url|1=http://www.rockymountainnews.com/|2=Rocky Mountain News}}''' has shut down as of February 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2009/feb/26/rocky-mountain-news-closes-friday-final-edition/}}</ref> We're watching to see what happens with the website (and the material, and the newspaper itself). With a 150-year history, there's a lot of backstory, and how this chronicler of history will end up, so too will many others. There is an excellent documentary about the last days of the Rocky Mountain News {{url|http://www.vimeo.com/3390739|here}}.<br />
* February 23: '''Windows Live''' shut down the '''MSN Groups''' on February 23. They extended their original date from February 21st to give Group owners the weekend to prepare. <ref>{{url|1=http://windowslivewire.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!2F7EB29B42641D59!34861.entry?sa=503427140}}</ref><br />
* January 31: '''{{url|http://ma.gnolia.com/|ma.gnolia.com}}''' had a catastrophic disk corruption/failure on January 31, 2009. From the message on the main site: ''"As I evaluate recovery options, I can't provide a certain timeline or prognosis as to to when or to what degree Ma.gnolia or your bookmarks will return; only that this process will take days, not hours."'' Ma.gnolia had an excellent export feature... hope you used it and did the backups they didn't!<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://dominomag.com/|2=Domino Magazine}}''', a style/interior design magazine, announced that they were shutting down on January 28, 2009. {{url|1=http://mydecofile.dominomag.com/|2=My Deco File}}, one of the site's heavily used social bookmarking features (somewhat like delicious for images) will remain up for a few weeks to allow users to save their stuff.<br />
* January 28: '''{{url|1=http://culture11.com/home|2=Culture11}}''' ran out of money.<ref>{{url|http://www.patrolmag.com/scanner/1263/culture11-is-over}}</ref><br />
* January 27: '''Yahoo Pets''' was shut down and redirected with absolutely no notice around January 27, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://blog.dogster.com/2009/01/28/yahoo-quietly-shutters-yahoo-pets-grin/}}</ref><br />
* January 17: '''[[totse]].com''' {{url|1=http://www.totse.com/|2=closed its doors}} on January 17, 2009. As of Jan 20th, a mirror {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/|2=exists}}, alongside a {{url|1=http://totse.danladds.com/text/|2=repository of the totse text files}}.<br />
* January 15: '''[[Ficlets]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/02/ficlets-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 15: '''[[Circavie]].com''' (owned by AOL) has announced they are closing on January 15, 2009. <ref>{{url|http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/12/03/circavie-will-be-shut-down-permanently/}}</ref><br />
* January 14: '''Several Google services''' have shut down. <ref>{{url|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_giveth_and_it_taketh_away.php}}</ref> Most importantly, Google Video stopped accepting new uploads (to avoid competition with Google-owned YouTube), and Google Catalog Search was erased.<br />
* January 11: '''[[Co.mments]].com''' closed down on January 11, 2009.<br />
* January 9: '''[[AOL_Pictures|AOL Pictures]]''' said so long on January 9, 2009. To their credit, you can still yank your stuff into other photo services until June 2009. (At least, according to their goodbye letter.)<br />
* January 6: '''Electronic Gaming Monthly''' has recently shut its doors. <ref>{{url|http://multiplayerblog.mtv.com/2009/01/06/egm-closed-ziff-lays-off-30/}}</ref><br />
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===2008===<br />
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* {{url|http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=11227|Overview of 2008 Technology News from zdnet}}<br />
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''Biggest Botched Shutdowns of 2008''<br />
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* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.peopleconnectionblog.com/2008/11/06/hometown-has-been-shutdown|2=AOL Hometown}}''' (owned by AOL) was officially killed on October 31, 2008. {{url|1=http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/1617|2=Jason wrote about it.}}<br />
[[Image:Stayclassyaol.png|thumb|right|470px|The full extent of warning AOL gave about shutting down Hometown.]]<br />
* October 27: '''Digitalrailroad.net''', a photo hosting site, gave their users a 24-hour eviction notice on October 27, 2008. They shut down 10 hours after the 24-hour notice. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10078042-2.html}}</ref><br />
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''Other deaths of 2008''<br />
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* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://pingmag.jp/|2=Pingmag}}''', the magazine from Tokyo about "Designing and Making things," simultaneously rang in the new year and checked out of existence on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 31: '''{{url|1=http://www.lively.com/goodbye.html|2=Lively}}''', a 3D Avatar space experiment, was killed in a really crappy way by Google on December 31, 2008.<br />
* December 27:'''{{url|1=http://blog.mixwit.com/|2=Mixwit}}''' said goodbye on December 27, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10126057-2.html}}</ref><br />
* December 23: '''{{url|http://www.castlecops.com/|Castle Cops}}''' put away their badges on December 23, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.idf50.co.uk/clubhouse/computer-room/15996-castle-cops-closed-down.html}}</ref><br />
* December 19(?): '''[[Google Research Datasets]]''', shut down on December 19(?), 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/12/googlescienceda.html}}</ref><br />
[[Image:Final image 01.png|400px|right|thumb|The last person at Yahoo! Kickstart turning off the lights.]]<br />
* December 18: '''Yahoo! Kickstart''', a social network for college students revealed in 2007 <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2007/08/30/yahoo-kickstart/}}</ref> got expelled on about December 18, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.techpluto.com/yahoo-kickstart-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* December 16: '''Flip.com''', a social network for teenage girls, shut down on December 16, 2008. Users were advised to print out their digital scrapbooks as backups. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10112021-93.html}}</ref><br />
* December 15: '''{{url|http://pownce.com/|Pownce}}''' was closed on December 15, 2008.<br />
* December 8: '''{{url|http://getsatisfaction.com/iwantsandy/topics/a_fork_in_the_road_an_important_announcement_about_i_want_sandy|I Want Sandy}}''' was shut down on December 8, 2008. A lot of people complained about this one, while others thanked the site for shutting down and wished the founder well! <br />
* December 3: '''{{url|1=http://live.yahoo.com/|2=Yahoo Live!}}''' died on December 3, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13515_3-10081486-26.html}}</ref><br />
* October 31: '''{{url|1=http://ourworld.cs.com/sfrederick2/index.htm?f=fs|2=Compuserve OurWorld}}''' slipped into history on October 31, 2008.<br />
* October 29: '''{{url|1=http://blogrush.com|2=BlogRush.com}}''' failed to provide bloggers with the traffic they so desperately desired, and the creator admitted on October 29, 2008 that his 4AM idea may not have been so brilliant. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/10/29/blogrush-shutdown/}}</ref><br />
* September 29: '''ScribbleWiki''' wikis go offline. Apparently {{url|1=http://wikiindex.org/ScribbleWiki|2=their servers crashed}} and they didn't have a backup.<br />
* September 28: '''Yahoo! Mash''', a social networking site, became mush on September 28, 2009, after 30 days warning. <ref>{{url|http://mashable.com/2008/08/28/yahoo-mash-has-been-quashed/}}</ref> <br />
* September 26: '''Uber.com''' was a social blog site that died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10052301-36.html}}</ref><br />
** Not too be confused with the ridesharing service of the same name, which now owns the domain name uber.com.<br />
* September 18: '''{{url|1=http://wallop.com/|2=Wallop}}''', Microsoft's attempt at starting a social network, died on September 18, 2008. All that remains is a few Facebook apps. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10041856-36.html}}</ref> <ref>{{url|http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/15/wallop-takes-a-leap-into-the-deadpool/}}</ref><br />
* May 21: '''Virtual Magic Kingdom''' {{url|1=http://www.intercot.com/discussion/showthread.php?t=130548|2=closed its gates}} on May 21, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://www.virtualworldsnews.com/2008/04/disneys-virtual.html}}</ref> The amount of broken hearts and anguish over this move was amazing, and a warning sign to any family-oriented site that encourages families to join up.<br />
** Some of the more anguished fans have gotten together in various forms to recreate VMK, including {{url|1=http://game.myvmk.com/|2=MyVMK}}, {{url|1=http://www.vmkrevisited.com/|2=VMKRevisted}} (a memorial site), and {{url|1=http://www.openvmk.com/|2=OpenVMK}} (although OpenVMK shutdown due to {{url|1=https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qTdpgcLUd-Hg6-FZzkVEju4x1aMlhbMNX6snlUNgnOM/|2=internal squabbles}}.)<br />
* February 29: '''Stage6''', a video sharing site, was shut down by DivX Inc. on February 29, 2008. <ref>{{url|1=https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Stage6}}</ref><br />
* February 14: '''[[wikipedia:Think_Secret|Think Secret]]''' was killed by Apple and shut down on February 14, 2008. <ref>{{url|http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/12/apple-and-think.html}}</ref><br />
* July 31: '''Social.fm''' couldn't stand up to Last.fm, and died. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10005554-36.html}}</ref><br />
* May 15: '''Brijit.com''', a news aggregation site, closed on May 15, 2008. It might be closed for good. <ref>{{url|http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9945059-36.html}}</ref><br />
* February: '''Yahoo! Design''', a showcase of designing and information aesthetics related to the Yahoo! properties, got revised into oblivion in February, 2008 as part of a 1,000 employee layoff. <ref>{{url|http://infosthetics.com/archives/2008/02/rip_yahoo_design_closed_down.html}}</ref><br />
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===2007===<br />
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* October 31: '''Yahoo! Podcasts''', a Podcast searching site founded in October 2005 <ref>{{url|http://www.ysearchblog.com/2005/10/09/listen-to-the-internet-with-yahoo-podcasts/}}</ref>, was closed with no explanation on October 31, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://searchengineland.com/yahoo-podcasts-to-close-the-sorry-state-of-podcast-search-12288}}</ref><br />
* October 23: '''{{url|1=http://oink.cd/|2=OiNK's Pink Palace}}''' Music Bittorrent tracker site with huge user community which cared greatly about digital content and music. Would have been a great resource for the industry to research. Shutdown October 23, 2007. <ref>{{url|http://www.wired.com/entertainment/music/news/2007/10/oink}}</ref><br />
* September 20: '''Yahoo! Photos''', a photo sharing service by Yahoo!. Tools: [http://smart-techie.com/yahoo/ Download Hi Resolution Yahoo! Photos] by [http://smart-techie.com/web/ Rohit Sud], [http://kentbrewster.com/download-yahoo-photos/ Download Yahoo! Photos] by [[Kent Brewster]], and {{url|1=http://yandao.com/yahoograb/|2=Yahoo! Photos Grabber}} by {{url|1=http://yandao.com|2=Yandao.com}}<br />
* March 20: '''{{url|1=http://jam.bbc.co.uk/|2=BBC Jam}}''' was {{url|1=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6449619.stm|2=suspended}} March 20, 2007 and {{url|1=http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/feb/28/bbc.digitalmedia|2=will not be coming back}}.<br />
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===2006===<br />
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===2005===<br />
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* {{url|http://IUMA.COM}} (Internet Underground Music Archive), of Santa Cruz, California, the actual first website to offer free hosting of bands including MP3 files of music offered by the bands, was mostly archived by John Gilmore before going down. At least one IUMA founder now has a copy of that archive. This ~800GB collection has been [https://archive.org/details/iuma-archive uploaded to a collection on the Internet Archive].<br />
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===2004===<br />
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===2003===<br />
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* {{url|http://mp3.com}} went down. Much of it was archived by John Gilmore.<br />
* {{url|http://www.cyberworldcorp.com|Cyberworld International Corporation}}, which invented a way of producing simple 3D environments in the web years before the advent of WebGL, quietly disappears from the face of the web<br />
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===2002===<br />
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===2001===<br />
* '''CHV.Net''', aka Cyber Hippie Vision, was a video game commentary and review site which had high quality game-play videos in MPG. It was based in South Korea, on a high speed connection, was very well done, and was far ahead of its time. It might have been a top YouTube or Twitch channel, had those platforms existed. Some videos have been re-uploaded to YouTube [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxHx1xysHVU64xHoxEU8B8JeRr4ZSOTAR] . Some refugees still post in the 'chvliveson' refugee forum (now hosted on Tapatalk, formerly ezboard). [https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/we-re-almost-four-months-into-2015-t1904-s20.html][https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/chvliveson/viewtopic.php?p=16341#p16341] HitokiriMoonKnight is at https://discord.gg/DPacxEN<br />
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* '''SixDegrees.com''', a social network service website that lasted from 1997 to 2001<br />
* '''The Useless Pages''' (at [http://replay.web.archive.org/20000612123540/http://www.go2net.com/useless/index.html IA])<br />
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== Eleventh Hour Reprieves and Reanimations ==<br />
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* '''[[Berlios.de]]''' <s>will {{url|1=http://www.berlios.de/|2=shut down at end of 2011}}. The site hosts thousands of open source software projects (git, svn, bzr, mailing lists, bug tracking, etc.). {{url|1=http://developer.berlios.de/docman/display_doc.php?docid=2056&group_id=2|2=Instructions for exporting a project.}} Berlios is still open and they are now</s> {{url|1=http://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/german-open-source-development-site-berlios-joins-sourceforge|2=partnered with sourceforge}} to keep things running.<br />
* '''{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/|The Bitcoin Forum (forum.bitcoin.com)}}''' announced it might close on 2020-07-23<ref>{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/announces/the-bitcoin-com-forum-is-closing-on-july-23rd-2020-t130936.html}}</ref> or not<ref>{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/post316521.html#p316521}}</ref> or merge with {{URL|https://bitco.in/}}<ref>{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/post317157.html#p317157}}</ref>. On July 27, it was announced that the site would live on.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.bitcoin.com/post318358.html}}</ref><br />
* '''BugTraq''', computer security mailing list, was announced to shut down 2021-01-31 along with the parent site {{URL|https://www.securityfocus.com/}}. The mailing list itself had been abandoned after it was acquired by Accenture from Symantec/Broadcom in February 2020.<ref>{{URL|https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/542247}}</ref> On 2021-01-17, a new announcement was made that BugTraq would be kept running.<ref>{{URL|https://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/542248}}</ref><br />
* '''[[Citizendium]]''''s finances {{url|1=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2010-11-08/News_and_notes|2=constantly cry for money}}. Running a MediaWiki site is cheap and Sanger is not homeless, hence it's expected to survive. [[WikiTeam]] archives it on a regular basis.<br />
** In late June 2020, a notice was added to the homepage that the project had failed and was going to end on 30 September.<ref> {{URL|1=https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Welcome_to_Citizendium&diff=100864599&oldid=100857010}}</ref> A month later, it was announced that the wiki would keep running.<ref>{{URL|1=https://en.citizendium.org/wiki?title=Welcome_to_Citizendium&diff=100864876&oldid=100864875}}</ref><br />
* '''Cli.gs''', another URL shortening service, announced closure: "On Sunday, 25 Oct 2009 at 12:00:00 GMT, the service will stop accepting new short URLs and will stop logging analytics."<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/cligs-shutting-down}}</ref> In December 2009, it was announced that the "social bookmarking" site Mister Wong has acquired cli.gs and are keeping it running.<ref>{{url|http://blog.cli.gs/news/mister-wong-acquires-cligs}}</ref> All aboard the [[TinyURL]] project.<br />
* '''{{URL|https://deadspin.com/|Deadspin}}''' (owned by G/O Media) fired its editor-in-chief on 29 October 2019; the next day, it lost its entire editorial staff to resignations and stopped publishing.<ref>{{url|https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/30/business/media/deadspin-sports-staff.html}}</ref> However, the editorial director responsible for the firing resigned, and Deadspin began publication again under a new team on 12 March 2020.<ref>{{url|https://deadspin.com/good-news-deadspin-is-publishing-again-bad-news-for-t-1842302392}}</ref><br />
* '''[[Delicious]]'''<ref>{{url|http://www.delicious.com}}</ref> will be {{url|1=http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/12/16/delicious.php|2=shutting down soon}}. The whole team was let go yesterday - 15 December 2010. {{url|1=http://tech.slashdot.org/story/10/12/16/2220225/Yahoo-To-Close-Delicious|2=Slashdot link}}. Delicious was acquired from Yahoo! in early 2011 by AVOS however all the prior content is gone.<br />
* <s>'''{{url|1=https://duck.co/topic/soft-launch-of-the-new-forum|2=Duck.co}}''', the official DuckDuckGo community forums, transitioned to their {{url|1=https://dukgo.com|2=own platform}} and moved all posts over from their old Zoho forum.</s> Both are now redirecting to duckduckgo.com as of 27 August 2022.<br />
* '''[[Earbits]]''' bites the dust on June 16, 2014, but comes back to life on June 19th, 2014. In between, we grabbed ~130GB of images and ~130k MP3s.<br />
* '''{{URL|http://www.filefront.com/|FileFront}}''' is closing up shop <ref>{{url|http://farewell.filefront.com/}}</ref>. The site will be suspended on March 30, 2009. 1.5 Million files and 48+ TB of space gone just like that. As of April 2, 2009, it looks like there may have been an 11th hour reprieve for Filefront: according to a message reportedly from the original founders of the service<ref>{{url|http://welcome.filefront.com/}}</ref>, the site has been re-acquired by them in order to prevent its proposed shuttering. On 2010-11-30, FileFront rebranded to [[GameFront]]<ref>{{URL|http://www.gamefront.com/welcome-to-the-gamefront-launch-center/}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[Formspring]]''' (now called '''spring.me''') announced they'd be {{url|1=http://formspring.wordpress.com/2013/03/15/formspring-is-shutting-down/|2=shutting down}} on April the 15th. It was, however, was acquired by new management on May 8, 2013, and saved from being shut down.<br />
* '''[[Free Music Archive]]''' was set to close in November/December 2018<ref>Bijan Stephen. "[https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/7/18073346/free-music-archive-closing-wfmu-creative-commons-cheyenne-hohman The Free Music Archive is closing this month]". ''The Verge'', 2018-11-07. Accessed 2018-11-07.</ref> but remains online for now<ref>{{URL|http://freemusicarchive.org/member/cheyenne_h/blog/Update_FMAs_Future}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[GitHost]]''' announced they would be shutting down on April 30, 2015.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-shutting-down}}</ref> However, on April 26th, GitLab announced they had acquired GitHost and that user data would not be GitDeleted.<ref>{{url|https://githost.io/blog/posts/githost-gitlab}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://about.gitlab.com/2015/04/26/gitlab-acquires-githost/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[Google Video]]''' threatened to remove all hosted videos with two weeks' notice in April 2011. It backed down after criticism and an archive effort by the Archive Team.<br />
* '''Home of the Underdogs''' went under on Feb 9th<ref>{{url|http://flashofsteel.com/index.php/2009/02/13/rip-hotu/}}</ref>. There has been some passed along words by the site's owner, now working at an NGO, that an attempt to bring it back may happen. (She definitely has backups of the site.) A community-driven effort to revive the site is currently underway <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org}}</ref>. Backups were restored, and the remaining files (1,000+) collected from the community. As of Jan 4th 2010, HOTU is reporting that files are back online <ref>{{url|http://www.hotud.org/component/content/article/25133-files-online-and-import-done}}</ref><br />
* '''{{URL|https://index.hu/|Index}}''', a major Hungarian news outlet, fired its editor-in-chief on 22 July 2020<ref>{{URL|https://index.hu/english/2020/07/22/szabolcs_dull_editor_in_chief_index_dismissed/}}</ref>; two days later most of its editorial staff quit in protest.<ref>{{URL|https://index.hu/english/2020/07/24/editorial_board_of_index_resigns/}}</ref> Index discontinued {{url|https://index.hu/english|its English-language news}}, but otherwise never stopped publishing.<br />
* '''{{URL|https://www.intomore.com/|INTO}}''', a digital LGBTQ magazine, stopped publication in January 2019 and was to have been shut down on 21 August 2020<ref>Email sent to users: {{url|https://twitter.com/SerenaSonoma/status/1286777944803811335}}</ref>, but in fact remained online until its purchase and revival by publisher Q.Digital.<ref>{{URL|https://digiday.com/media/championing-the-people-you-dont-see-enough-q-digital-relaunches-lgbtq-pub-into-for-gen-z-bipoc-audiences/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[JPG Magazine]]''' announced it would shut down on January 5, 2009 <ref>{{url|http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/01/jpg_magazine_says_goodbye.html}}</ref>, but the site lives {{url|1=http://jpgmag.com/blog/2009/02/an_exciting_future_for_jpg.html|2=lives on under new ownership}}. Feel free to download the {{url|http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4624703/|torrent}}<br />
* [[KeygenJukebox]], which shut down in 2014, has recently popped back up.<br />
* {{url|http://kiwifarms.net/|Kiwi Farms}}, a notorious forum that mocks [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], was shut down on January 20, 2017 without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later. In September 2022 they were dropped by DDoS-mitigation site [[Clodflare]] and were forced to retreat to a Russian domain.<ref>{{url|https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/|Blocking Kiwifarms}}</ref> Kiwifarms were later reported to have been dropped by their DDoS-protection there as well.<br />
* '''[[Linux Journal]]''': Announced on 1 December 2017 that it is ceasing publication.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-journal-ceases-publication}}</ref> Announced on 1 January 2018 that it has been unexpectedly rescued.<ref>{{URL|https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/happy-new-year-linux-journal-alive}}</ref><br />
* '''{{URL|https://www.minecraftforum.net/|Minecraft Forum}}''' was going to be frozen<ref>{{URL|https://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60727-important-minecraft-forum-archive-announcement}}</ref> on 1 June 2019, but was then sold instead<ref>{{url|https://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60728-a-new-and-exciting-beginning}}</ref>. Online and operating as of 2022.<br />
* '''[[MobyGames]]''', the largest database of old game releases on the net, with huge amount of content found nowhere else. Was bought by [[GameFly]] in 2010 and received a new site design in September 2013, which made almost all contributors emigrate. Many site features have disappeared or became broken in the new design, and their large database of cover art and screenshots had problems loading. In December 2013, the site was bought by {{url|1=http://blueflamelabs.com/|2=Blue Flame Labs}}, who have restored the old site design and managed to draw back pretty much all the contributors. The site was purchased again, by [[Atari]], in March 2022.<ref>{{URL|https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/atari-has-acquired-game-database-mobygames-for-1-5-million/}}</ref><br />
* {{url|https://nyaa.se|'''[[nyaa]]'''}} shut down at May 2 2017 due to copyright problem, and {{url|https://nyaa.si|revival at 10 day after}}.<br />
* {{URL|https://oengus.io|Oengus}}, speedrun marathon tracker, was planned to shut down on July 1, 2021.<ref>{{URL|https://pastebin.com/LYngmiKK}}</ref> The creator subsequently accepted an offer to transfer management of the site so it can continue operating.<ref>{{URL|https://pastebin.com/8YYJc9eB}}</ref><br />
* {{URL|http://www.oldgamemags.com/|OldGameMags.com}} was announced to shut down on 2020-06-09<ref>"Being leeched to hell and back while getting no thanks takes a toll on you when you think people would have the decency to do so. [...] uploading newer files to other sites too. It all creates a mindset of distrust which is where I currently am at present." {{URL|http://www.oldgamemags.com/index.php/forum/latest-news/109-site-closure}}</ref> except for now it won't<ref>"This is a temporary PAUSE on site closure! As stated previously I am committed to getting donated magazines scanned and released. THAT is the sole factor determining the time frame for keeping the site going as it stands today. When I have completed scanning those, and that is all I will be scanning until completion, I will review where we are at regarding membership, whether our files continue to get uploaded to other sites etc and depending on those and how I feel personally a decision will be made then around the continued existence of OGM." {{URL|1=http://www.oldgamemags.com/index.php/forum/latest-news/109-pc-gamer-uk-disc-editions?start=40#1103}}</ref>.<br />
* {{URL|https://www.openmapchest.org/|OpenMapChest}} was announced on 2021-01-05 to be shutting down on 2022-02-26. After receiving a lot of feedback from the site's users, Ben (the site's owner) reconsidered and announced on 2021-12-27 that the site would remain online.<ref>{{URL|https://www.openmapchest.org/shutting-down/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.openmapchest.org/donate/}}</ref><br />
* {{URL|https://www.rpgwatch.com/|RPGWatch}} was set to shut down in July 2022<ref>{{URL|1=https://www.rpgwatch.com/forums/showthread.php?t=50134}}</ref> but was later transferred to a new owner<ref>{{URL|https://rpgwatch.com/forum/threads/updates-on-the-move.50499/#post-1061686892}}</ref>.<br />
* '''[[SoundCloud]]''' planned on introducing new upload limits (which would likely have led to deletions) on 9 December 2019<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Music/comments/e5jb9u/soundcloud_is_quietly_forcing_out_a_majority_of/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://help.soundcloud.com/hc/en-us/articles/360039149474-FAQ-SoundCloud-s-free-upload-limit}}</ref>, but reconsidered.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/SoundCloud/status/1202688115636346880}}</ref><br />
* [[StoryFire]] was going to shut down on 2021-02-01<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/McJuggerNuggets/status/1353452609596579842}}</ref> but secured funding at the last minute<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/McJuggerNuggets/status/1356411760065048578}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/McJuggerNuggets/status/1356422239646855170}}</ref>.<br />
* '''{{URL|https://thetimescales.com/|The Time Scales}}''' was announced to shut down on 2020-07-31.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/gallifrey/comments/hwgwy2/message_from_thetimescalescom/}}</ref> It was later announced that the site would live on.<ref>{{URL|https://thetimescales.com/}}, added sometime between 2020-07-30 and 2020-08-03.</ref><br />
* '''[[TwitPic]]''''s founder states it won't shut down and Twitter will take care of it. Not.<br />
* {{URL|https://answers.unity.com/|Unity Answers}} was going to shut down on 2022-06-23 with less than two weeks of notice. After the community got angry, they reversed their decision (for now).<ref>{{URL|https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-answers-shutdown-canceled.1293360/}}</ref><br />
* '''[[Uploadir]]''', a free filehoster (similar to catbox), was set to shut down on 2022-12-30 after 13 years of operation. New owners were found in December.<br />
* Video host '''[[Viddler]]''' announces in an {{url|1=http://mad.ly/5ae274?pact=20251445218&fe=1|2=e-mail newsletter}} that they're shutting down free accounts on March 11, 2014. But Archive Team kicked in and began to suck up the place until the owners told us to stop. Videos won't be permanently deleted.<br />
* '''[[WebCite]]''' &ndash; Has a habit of crying for money, threatening it will stop accepting submissions. Since October 2013, the Wayback Machine archives pages on demand, hence there's no reason to use a site like WebCite that declares self at risk. It's expected that they'll send their data to Internet Archive if they ever really have to shut down.<br />
* '''[[Word Count Journal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wordcountjournal.com/about}}) is shutting down on June 11, 2011 '''UPDATE''' The site is fully up and running. (checked on October 21, 2011) '''UPDATE2''': Non-functional, but the website is up with this notice "Word Count Journal is no longer being supported." (checked on January 26th, 2012)<br />
* '''[[YTMND]]''' ({{url|1=http://ytmnd.com/}}) announced plans to shut down on August 29, 2016 and eventually went offline on May 12, 2019 due to a database failure. After an "outpouring of support" the owner decided to save the site with all content restored by March 31, 2020.<br />
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== Links ==<br />
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=== Other Sites Remember the Dead ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/|2=Ghost Sites of the Web}} by Steve Baldwin. {{url|1=http://www.disobey.com/ghostsites/atom.xml|2=RSS Feed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/|2=Techcrunch's Deadpool}} is an excellent archive of stories about site closings.<br />
* {{url|1=http://deletionpedia.dbatley.com/w/index.php?title=Main_Page|2=Deletionpedia}} saved the articles deleted from Wikipedia in 2008, and {{url|1=http://wikidumper.blogspot.com/|2=Wikidumper}} preserves a selection of them.<br />
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=== Tragic ===<br />
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* {{url|1=http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10029798-38.html|2="Russia Web site owner killed after arrest" - article at CNET News}}<br />
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* {{url|1=http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=10448650|2="Dating website's miscalculated publicity attempt" - article at New Zealand Herald}}<br />
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'''Twitter''' is a microblogging service. With each "entry" being 280 (formerly 140) characters or less, the ease with which you can track the tiniest details of your life is amazing. The site has become very popular as a result.<br />
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The site is becoming so popular, in fact, that many people are deserting or cutting back on their weblogs to just use the Twitter service for what their weblogging used to fulfill; and with that comes rampant centralization, and with ''that'', greater risk. Back up your tweets!<br />
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== Archives ==<br />
There are currently a few archives (but only partially):<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/twitter_cikm_2010 Cheng-Caverlee-Lee September 2009 - January 2010 Twitter Scrape]: almost 10 millon tweets<br />
* [https://archive.org/details/2011-05-calufa-twitter-sql The May 2011 Calufa Twitter Scrape]: 90+ million tweets from more than 6 million users<br />
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The Twitter search API seemingly returns only the latest 7 days worth of tweets.<br />
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== Backup Tools ==<br />
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* Twitter enables you to [https://twitter.com/settings/your_twitter_data request an archive of all of your tweets from the main settings page], which includes every tweet of yours (therefore bypassing the normal 3200 tweet API limit). This is then emailed to the address linked with the account.<br />
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* [https://github.com/JustAnotherArchivist/snscrape snscrape]<br />
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* Tweets can be archived easily through socialbot (an IRC bot that utilizes snscrape, [[ArchiveBot]]. Alternatively, run snscrape locally, upload the list of URLs to https://transfer.archivete.am/, and feed them into ArchiveBot using the <code>!ao < <i>file</i></code> command.<br />
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* [https://github.com/sferik/t t by sferik] is a command-line interface for Twitter using the API via an application you create on your account. Not only does it allow easy CSV/JSON export of your own data, but it allows you to scrape others tweets. API limits apply but this tool is <b>very</b> powerful<br />
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Twitter automatically resizes uploaded images. To get image in its original resolution, append :orig after the url, e.g.:<br />
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CBAoaU1UwAIUPIc.jpg:orig<br />
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* [https://github.com/sixohsix/twitter The Python Twitter API by sixohsix] has some pretty easy to use scripts for archiving Twitter accounts to a TXT file for people who aren't as technically inclined. It can only save the last 3K or so tweets due to inbuilt Twitter limits, though. (Note: the "-o" flag is pretty much required to archive accounts.)<br />
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* [https://github.com/DocNow/twarc twarc] - for example, you can archive a user with <code>snscrape -f "{id}" twitter-user USER | twarc hydrate > data.txt</code>.<br />
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* [https://gist.github.com/Asparagirl/e3ee274e4df49230875c880255819d95 Here's a Gist with a step-by-step guide] to getting a long list of a user's tweet status URL's, using a Python program called Tweep.<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140105210020/http://www.tweetscan.com:80/data.php Tweetscan Data] (died sometime after 2014) downloaded your Twitter archive from 12/2007 onward in CSV format (requires Twitter account login/password)<br />
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=== Scraping ===<br />
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See [[Site exploration#Twitter|Site exploration]] for details.<br />
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== Vital Signs == <br />
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In 2017, a subsidiary forum, "translate.twitter.com", was discontinued.<ref>https://archive.fo/https://translate.twitter.com/forum%2A</ref><br />
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In 2022, Elon Musk bought Twitter.<ref>{{URL|https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/end-of-free-twitter-elon-musk-hints-he-may-charge-commercial-govt-users-101651624937957.html}}</ref> This may lock up accessible tweets behind paywall, login wall or identity verification wall.<br />
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The main site is still online, although Elon Musk fired half of the Twitter staff in November 2022<ref>{{URL|https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/nov/04/twitter-layoffs-elon-musk-revenue-drop}}</ref> so it's possible this could ultimately put the site in jeopardy. He also reportedly warned employees that the site is at risk of going bankrupt in 2023<ref>{{URL|https://finance.yahoo.com/news/musk-says-twitter-could-face-bankruptcy-next-year-report-221322212.html}}</ref>.<br />
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As of November 17, 2022, many former Twitter employees are saying that many vital Twitter services are now being maintained by a single-digit number of technicians. This could ultimately result in Twitter losing its services.<!--citation needed--><br />
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On December 9, 2022, Elon Musk announced that accounts with no Tweets that have no activity for an extended period of time would be deleted to make room for new accounts. As an alternative interpretation of the statement, this could refer to accounts that have not Tweeted in a long time.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1601124219009409024}}</ref><br />
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On February 2, 2023, Twitter announced free API access will be discontinued and replaced with a paid subscription tier. <ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/TwitterDev/status/1621026986784337922}}</ref><br />
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During March 2023, Twemoji's maintainers were fired. Its usage in Twitter's mobile apps has since been dropped, with the native emojis now being used. A fork of Twemoji has been created by the ex-maintainers and is currently used by [[Discord]].<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/lexikiq/status/1641186153742123009}}</ref><br />
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During April 2023, Twitter Inc. was folded into Elon Musk's new company X Corp. As a result, it's possible that Twitter could inevitably be rebranded into "X" to align with Elon's visions of an "everything app".<ref>{{URL|https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/twitter-no-longer-exists-x-corp-b2318916.html}}</ref><br />
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In mid-April 2023, access to Twitter's search function was locked behind a login prompt, requiring users to have an account in order to search for tweets. This makes it more difficult to scrape tweets. <ref>{{URL|https://www.neowin.net/news/the-login-prompt-for-twitter-search-has-returned-just-months-after-elon-musk-wanted-it-gone/}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://mashable.com/article/twitter-search-registered}}</ref><br />
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On 8 May 2023, Elon Musk announced that Twitter is "purging accounts that have had no activity at all for several years".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1655608985058267139}}</ref> He later clarified that "the accounts will be archived".<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1655720120440823809}}</ref> Twitter's "inactive account policy" defines inactive accounts as those that have not been logged in for at least 30 days, and says that accounts "may be permanently removed due to prolonged inactivity".<ref>{{URL|https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/inactive-twitter-accounts}}</ref> (Before May 2023, the time needed for an account to become "inactive" was 6 months.)<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20230419143120/https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/inactive-twitter-accounts</ref><br />
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On 30 June 2023, Twitter made it impossible to view tweets without logging into an account.<ref>{{URL|https://www.engadget.com/twitter-isnt-showing-tweets-unless-youre-logged-in-165254006.html}}</ref> This was likely done in response to decreasing user activity levels.<ref>{{URL|https://www.zdnet.com/article/twitter-seeing-record-user-engagement-the-data-tells-a-different-story/}}</ref> Elon Musk later wrote on Twitter: "This will be unlocked shortly. Per my earlier post, drastic & immediate action was necessary due to EXTREME levels of data scraping."<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674942336583757825|Elon Musk on Twitter}} (via [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36540957 Hacker News])</ref> Logged-in users are also subject to a per-day post rate limit of 10000 (for Twitter Blue subscribers), 1000 (for normal accounts), or 500 (for new, not-subscribed accounts).<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675260424109928449}}</ref><br />
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== Also see ==<br />
* [[Twitter watchlist]] – Accounts with volatile content.<br />
* [[List of lost Twitter accounts]] – Twitter accounts that went private, disabled, suspended or deleted a significant amount of content.<br />
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== Library of Congress ==<br />
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The U.S. Library of Congress announced in April 2010, via its official Twitter account that it will be acquiring the entire archive of Twitter messages back through March 2006.<ref>{{URL|http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitters_entire_archive_headed_to_the_library_of_c.php}}</ref> As of 2016-02-23, this archive is still not available, and when/if it does become accessible it will likely be restricted to researchers, rather than the general public.<ref>{{URL|https://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/library-of-congress-twitter-archive-119698.html}}</ref> In January 2017, it was announced that the Library of Congress will no longer archive all tweets, just ones from major news stories.<ref>{{URL|https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/26/573609499/library-of-congress-will-no-longer-archive-every-tweet}}</ref><br />
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== Lists ==<br />
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* [[List of Twitter hashtags by country and territory]]<br />
* [[List of Twitter hashtags by language]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
* {{URL|https://twitter.com/}}<br />
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<div>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.<br />
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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.<br />
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=== Owned by [[Yahoo!]] Imminent Demise! ===<br />
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* '''Yahoo and AOL''' properties are being sold by Verizon to hedge fund Apollo in 2021. The news comes immediately after the closure of [[Yahoo! Answers]] and will presumably be swiftly followed by radical disruption for the sake of short-term cash milking.<ref>{{url|https://www.reuters.com/technology/apollo-acquire-verizons-media-assets-5-bln-2021-05-03/}}</ref><br />
* <del>'''[[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?!</del><br />
** Flickr was sold to SmugMug in 2018, purged the biggest non-paying and non-freely licensed accounts and switched to a more predictable subscription-based model.<br />
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=== Watchlist ===<br />
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* '''[[Academic Earth]]''' ({{url|1=http://academicearth.org/}}) has been worryingly unloved for a while, and holds a mountain of free education that's invaluable to the world.<br />
* '''[[A-Infos]]''' ({{url|1=http://ainfos.ca/}}) a multi-lingual news service by, for, and about anarchists. Have stuff archived since the 90's that isn't available anywhere else.<br />
* '''[[Encyclopedia Astronautica]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.astronautix.com/}}) is the most comprehensive collection of the history of space travel. '''Period.''' Seriously, the official NASA history folks will refer you this website if they can't answer your questions. However, Mark Wade (the sole creator/maintainer) abandoned his blog at the end of 2007, and the Encyclopedia has not been updated since May 2008, despite much happening in the space exploration world since then. A [https://archive.org/details/EncyclopediaAstronautica backup] was made of the site as of 28/01/2017.<br />
* '''[[Angelfire]]''' has been in constant decline for many years now.<br />
* '''[[AnimeMusicVideos.org]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.animemusicvideos.org/}}) is fine right now, but they rely on donations and host vast amounts of user-edited music videos on their server (presumably without mirrors). Hard to download as you have to be a member to get all the download links, and after downloading a handful you have to vode before you can d/l again (or you can donate which presumably gives you 1 year of free d/l access). Also, this site might be a grey area, copyright-wise, as the videos are all cut together from copyrighted material.<br />
* '''[[Archive of Our Own]]''' ({{url|1=https://archiveofourown.org/}}) is stable but contains a large catalog of fanfiction that would likely be lost if the site were to shut down.<br />
* '''[[The Believer Magazine]]''' ({{url|1=https://believermag.com/}}) was just purchased [https://twitter.com/ST_Collective_/status/1523756595317927936 by what appears to be a sex toy company with an interest in keeping the archives up] but they do not appear to be reliable or trustworthy custodians. <br />
* '''[[BetaArchive]]''' ({{url|http://www.betaarchive.com/}}) has Kafkaesque requirements to be able to access it, and apparently refuses to be backed up, presumably so that they get more visitors. Valuable cultural library of historic software with no backups? Aargh.<br />
* '''[[BioMedia Project]]''' ({{url|1=http://biomediaproject.com/bmp/}}) is a large archive of various BIONICLE media that has not had a notable update since 2015.<br />
* '''[[Carrd]]''' ({{url|1=https://carrd.co}}, {{url|1=https://crd.co}}, {{url|1=https://ju.mp}}, and {{url|1=https://uwu.ai}}) is a free web host, mainly used by minorities (the LGBTQ+ community and people with mental illnesses, for example) and Twitter/Tumblr communities. Also used for activism (one of the most popular Carrd websites is about Black Lives Matter, for example). Pretty stable as of now, but could become a good historical resource in the future.<br />
* '''[[Codecademy]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.codecademy.com/}}) has a large amount of valuable coding lessons.<br />
* '''[[DatasheetArchive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.datasheetarchive.com/}}) hosts over 350 million PDF datasheets for integrated circuits, some of which are very old and hard to track down otherwise. The site is slow from time to time and uses a convoluted IFRAME-based online viewer, presumably to make scraping the site harder. Nevertheless, multiple other similar sites exist, with large parts of their PDFs non-overlapping, so that at some point, all should be saved. Similar sites include http://doc.chipfind.<!-- -->ru/ (1.6m datasheets), http://www.alldatasheet.com/ (20m datasheets), http://www.datasheets.com/ (250m datasheets), http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/, http://freedatasheets.com/ and several others<br />
* '''[[Dayviews]]''' ({{url|1=http://dayviews.com/}}), the Swedish photo diary community contains quite a bit of 00s Swedish "youth culture", but is at risk of being shutdown when you least suspect it due to its sinking user rate.<br />
* '''[[Delicious]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.delicious.com/}}) loves to change their API, which has a side effect of making it difficult to back up.<br />
* '''[[Facebook]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.facebook.com/}}) seems stable at the moment.<br />
* '''[[Fandom]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.fandom.com/}}), the for-pay arm of Wikipedia (just kidding, it's a different company, but shares a lot of people) is a repository of directed, unsubject-to-wikipolitics wikis, many of them intense and completist. It'd be bad for them to go away.<br />
* '''[[FanFiction]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.fanfiction.net/}}) represents many thousands of user-generated stories, essays and huge amounts of work.<br />
* '''[[Forrst]]''' ({{url|1=http://zurb.com/forrst}}) was shut down on April 14th, 2014, but all posts were archived by Forrst.<br />
* '''[[FreewareFiles]]''' ({{url|1=http://freewarefiles.net/}}) is a treasure trove of free and open source completed softwares. It's been around for 20 years, but hasn't had its look updated in a long while.<br />
* '''[[FurAffinity]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.furaffinity.net/}})<br />
* '''[[Google]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.google.com/}}) wants you to think they will be here forever.<br />
* '''[[h2g2]]''' ({{url|1=https://www.h2g2.com}}) was (among?) the first [https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A550955 online, collaborative encyclopaedia(s)].<br />
* '''[[IFTTT]]''' ({{url|1=http://ifttt.com/}}) is still growing.<br />
* '''[[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?<br />
** 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.<br />
** More discussion at [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK]]<br />
* '''[[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.<br />
* '''[[JanusVR]]''' is a company that aims to re-imagine the web as "rooms" interconnected with portals. These "rooms" can be hosted anywhere. Though the company and its technology are still fairly new, there are already cases of rooms with missing assets or even entire links broken, and [[ArchiveBot]]'s ability to grab these rooms is somewhat limited.<br />
*'''[[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?<br />
* '''[[Kiwi Farms]]''' ({{url|http://kiwifarms.net/}}, {{url|http://kiwifar.ms/|former alternate .ms domain}}) is a notorious forum where users mock [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], or people who have attracted ridicule because of their behavior or their beliefs. On January 20, 2017, the forum was shut down without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later.<br />
*'''[[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]].<br />
* '''[[Last.fm]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.last.fm/}}) is being cloned by free software developers in the form of [http://libre.fm Libre.fm] -- they have a tool, [http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/trunk/lastscrape/lastscrape.py?root=librefm Lastscrape] which can get all your listening data out into a tab delimited text file.<br />
* '''[[Literotica.com]]''' ({{url|1=http://literotica.com/}}) Contains over 290,000 user-written stories and poems. First pass at a backup: [http://mir.cr/12CMQUTL part1.rar], [http://mir.cr/HO79CCUO part2.rar], [http://mir.cr/TOVJWQ4E part3.rar], [http://mir.cr/1SIAB4AM part4.rar] -- contains the text of all stories as of the backup date in XML format. (One page of one story is missing because it doesn't exist on the site; embedded images and audio are not included this time; non-English stories aren't labelled with their language).<br />
* '''[[LiveJournal]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.livejournal.com/}}) fired a bunch of US-based developers, but is still serving from its new (presumably cheaper) data center in Montana.<br />
* '''[[Mapillary]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.mapillary.com/}}) project similar to Google's Street View, but with CC BY-SA photos submitted by users. Particularly worrisome since Mapillary requires purchasing licenses to download a large number of photos, making it essentially a big silo. See more at http://blog.improve-osm.org/en/2016/11/a-glimpse-into-the-future-of-mapmaking-with-osm-2/<br />
* '''[[Megalodon.jp]]''' ({{url|1=http://megalodon.jp/}}) is a Japanese archiving website. Outside of Japanese users, reddit users use it sometimes.<br />
*'''[[The Mod Archive]]''' ({{url|1=http://modarchive.org/}}) One of the largest collection of music modules.<br />
*'''[[Mod DB]]''' ({{url|1=http://moddb.com/}}) is the largest website dedicated to user generated game content, including mods (12,000) and addons (14,000) with a combined size of 4,5 TB of user-generated downloadable content.<br />
*'''[[Moegirlpedia]]''' ({{url|https://zh.moegirl.org}}) is the biggest Chinese-language encyclopedia for popular culture.<br />
*'''[[MUGEN Archive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.mugenarchive.com/}}) Holds 1000's of user created addon content for the custom fighting game MUGEN. Much of the stuff uploaded here was thought lost forever. However, thanks to all the copyright infringing content and uploading a lot of content without the creators permission, the future of the site is questionable.<br />
*'''[[nyaa]]''' ({{url|https://nyaa.si/}}) - Biggest torrent site of Japanese popular culture.<br />
* '''[[Pastebin]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pastebin.com/}}) is still getting filled with text.<br />
* '''[[Pixiv]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pixiv.net/}}) and '''[[deviantArt]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.deviantart.com/}}) are the largest Japanese and American (respectively) fanart (and valuable art in general) collections on the internet. Most of works are possibly included in [https://saucenao.com/status.html many boorus]. Someone also mentioned [http://www.minitokyo.net/ Minitokyo] around here somewhere. [[Internet Archive|IA]] has a 2008 [https://archive.org/details/mt-walls-2008-01-01 wallpaper dump] from there.<br />
* '''[[Pouet]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pouet.net/}}) is an important site of the demoscene. It indexes and ranks demoscene productions ('prods') and also includes a free-for-all BBS-style forum. [https://demozoo.org/ Demozoo] is a site in the same vein with a slightly different focus. They both use the same ISP iirc so if that goes down a lot of user created content is lost.<br />
* '''[[Reddit]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.reddit.com/}}) is a content aggregator where [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Issues_relating_to_former_Digg_website many Digg users migrated in 2010]. Attracted controversy in July 2015, with accusations of [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/amageddon censorship] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_banning shadowbanning]. Stable for now, but team is small.<br />
* '''[[SourceForge]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.sourceforge.net/}}) is a critical repository of open source code, information, and webpages. It is mirrored and maintained, but there are sure to be parts that are neither.<br />
* '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.thepiratebay.org/}}) is one of the largest and most popular torrent search engines. It's still having persistent legal problems. The tracker went down in November 2012, but the site still serves torrents and magnet links. If a torrent is lost, it becomes impossible to connect to other computers distributing the shared files. Considering that there are links to TPB ''all over this wiki'', this site is pretty dang important. After they were raided in December 2014, a project known as [http://openbay.isohunt.to/ The Open Bay] was launched, which lets anybody host a mirror of TPB with automatic database updates, so even if TPB goes down again, temporarily or not, its database is still available.<br />
* '''[[Tribe]]''' ({{url|1=http://tribe.net}}) hosts large amount of user-generated data, and has been having consistent uptime issues.<br />
* '''[[Tumblr]]''' ({{url|1=http://tumblr.com}}) is a highly popular blogging platform which was bought by [[Yahoo]]! in May, 2013. <br />
* '''[[TVTropes]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage}}) is a popular wiki dedicated to finding recurring patterns in fiction, and discussing fiction in general. No word on whether there are backups. The administrators have a tendency to delete things indiscriminately, usually to save on disk space: article edit histories are frequently purged, and old forum threads have been known to get deleted mercilessly. A [http://archive.org/details/archiveteam-tvtropes-2012-09 backup] and [https://allthetropes.org/wiki/Main_Page an alternate website] with imported content from July 2012 are available. <br />
* '''[[Twitter]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.twitter.com/}}) is tweaking away, with a dire financial situation and [http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/06/twitter-in-meltdown-as-entire-userbase-revolts/ controversial decisions].<br />
* '''[[Urban Dictionary]]''' ({{URL|https://www.urbandictionary.com/}}) is "a crowdsourced online dictionary for slang words and phrases"<ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Urban_Dictionary&oldid=926230888|Wikipedia}}</ref>. It's financed by ads and a web store, and there are no signs of serious trouble as of late 2019.<br />
* '''[[WebCite]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.webcitation.org/}}) itself seems to be having trouble with funding, and is facing "possible discontinuation." As this site serves as a stable reference for fleeting Web references, it would be pretty disastrous if it went away.<br />
* '''[[whitehouse.gov]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.whitehouse.gov/}}) is overhauled every time a new US president assumes office and changes continuously during the term. Old versions are preserved thanks to the [http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/ephemera_vs_the_law/ Presidential Records Act] (e.g. [http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/ George W. Bush's]), but we also want to watch out for site changes / disappeared pages that were embarrassing or whatnot.<br />
* '''[[WikiLeaks]]''' ({{url|1=http://wikileaks.org/}}) contains several thousand leaked documents from sources such as the Iraq War and the cables famously known under the label 'Cablegate'. Due to the content on the website, and that PayPal and Amazon (very) quickly dropped their hosting for them during Cablegate's opening days, it should be considered a potential target for any number of government committees for a quick shutdown. They have an uncertain financial situation, and the site was inaccessible for some time in 2010.<br />
* '''[[Wikipedia]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wikipedia.org/}}) will surely be here forever and ever! Fortunately, we don't have to take their word for it as they offer dumps of the data minus the photos. However, no-one has verified that Wikipedia can actually be restored from these dumps. If disaster strikes then we could discover a serious problem.<br />
* '''[[Writing]]''' ({{url|1=http://Writing.com/}}) A website for writing that was big in the 2000's. More and more restricted to guests and free users, as they are in need of money to keep the site running. Less and less popular for that reason<br />
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== Endangered ==<br />
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Did someone leave the oven on?<br />
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* '''[http://forums.bigfishgames.com/ Big Fish Games Forums]''' - the forum was made read-only on April 30, 2018. While Big Fish Games claimed at the time that the forums will remain viewable, the site is likely to vanish in the future.<br />
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* '''[http://identifyyourbreyer.com/ Identify Your Breyer]''' Janice, the administrator and curator of this archive passed away very recently (between 8-12 June 2021), leaving the site in a state of limbo. She'd been ill for several months and was in the ICU at the time of her passing. Nobody else seems to know how to log into the web server (hosted at websitewelcome.com) so it's unknown where the backups are (if there are any) or if it's possible to download the entire site from the back-end. Thus, we don't know how long the site will be up (hosting bills are now in an indeterminent state) and the domain registration (through Tucows) will expire on 2021-10-03T23:28:16Z. Identify Your Breyer is a popular and busy community for Breyer horse collectors and modders with a great deal of information of use to the collector's community.<br />
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* '''[http://www.ning.com/ Ning]''' in 2010 has laid off 40% of staff and seems to be running out of money [http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/15/nings-bubble-bursts-no-more-free-networks-cuts-40-of-staff/]. There is certainly some networks worth archiving among the 2 million networks[http://blog.ning.com/2010/01/2-million-ning-networks.html] they host. Grouply[http://blog.grouply.com/grouply-welcomes-ning-networks/] and Posterous[http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-commits-to-building-a-ning-blog-imp] say they are going to offer migration tools.<br />
* 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.<br />
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* '''[http://debates.oireachtas.ie/ debates.oireachtas.ie]''' on September 18th, 2012 the Houses of Oireachtas website [http://www.kildarestreet.com/statement2012/ 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 [https://archive.org/details/debatesoireachtasie-XML WARC archive] of the XML only.<br />
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* '''[[Ownlog|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.<br />
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* '''[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175 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.<br />
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* '''[[Seene]]''' ({{url|1=https://seene.co/u/docpop/}}) "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.<br />
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* Strawpoll.me<br />
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* '''[http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ World of Spectrum]''''s current administrator announced that [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/52892/had-enough he's ceasing to support the website and forum within 8 weeks] (as of July 3). The future of the website is uncertain. <br />
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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.<br />
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* 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.<br />
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* [[Yelp, Inc.]] lost 30% of its advertisers and people don't seem too happy about it.<br />
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* [[The Correspondent]], From 30 Sep 19 to 1 Jan 21 [https://thecorrespondent.com The Correspondent] published member-funded journalism about the forces that shape our world. The organization has shut down[https://thecorrespondent.com/834] and has put up a read-only archive of all publications that were previously only accessible to paying members. As keeping such an archive running will probably cost someone money it might not stay online for many more years.<br />
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* YoyoGames, developer of the GameMaker application, is planning to retire the old "'''[[GameMaker Sandbox]]'''" game hosting website in favor of the "GameMaker: Player" service, by late October.<ref>http://gamemakerblog.com/2014/10/04/its-official-digital-store-will-replace-gamemaker-sandbox/</ref> [http://help.yoyogames.com/entries/101815476-GameMaker-Player-FAQs "Sandbox content will remain available for a period of time until the GameMaker: Player is fully live."]<br />
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* [[nokia.com]] is [http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2014/09/19/goodbye-nokia-com-microsoft-makes-new-home-devices-services-microsoft-com/ being destroyed by Microsoft]. [http://archive.fart.website/archivebot/viewer/job/adktg It has been saved] by the [[ArchiveBot]].<br />
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* [[Yahoo!]] [http://www.yqlblog.net/blog/2013/11/11/y-ahoo-it-url-shortener-end-of-life-announcement/ retired] the y.ahoo.it [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] November 20th 2013 but the shortener is still active.<br />
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* 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.<br />
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* [[YTMND]] - supposed to be "closing down soon" in [https://gizmodo.com/who-killed-ytmnd-1785765611 2016], but still up 2 years later.<br />
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* [[Giphy]]: Bought by Facebook, to be "integrated" (assimilated) into Instagram https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/facebook-to-buy-giphy<br />
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*[[CodePlex]]: Read-only archive shutdown has been announced to happen in July.<br />
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== See Also ==<br />
* [[A Million Ways to Die on the Web]]<br />
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