https://wiki.archiveteam.org/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=VADemon&feedformat=atomArchiveteam - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T08:01:42ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.37.1https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=URLTeam&diff=45979URLTeam2020-12-26T00:11:07Z<p>VADemon: /* "Official" shorteners */ add ya.cc</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Urlteam<br />
| image = Urlteam-logo.png<br />
| description = url shortening was a fucking awful idea<ref>https://lwn.net/Articles/683880/</ref><br />
| URL = http://urlte.am<br />
| project_status = {{online}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{in progress}}<br />
| source = Old: [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/urlteam-stuff urlteam-stuff] [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/tinyback tinyback] [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/tinyarchive tinyarchive]<br />
New: [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/terroroftinytown-client-grab terroroftinytown-client-grab] [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/terroroftinytown terroroftinytown]<br />
| tracker = https://tracker.archiveteam.org:1338/<br />
| irc = urlteam<br />
| irc_network = hackint<br />
}}<br />
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'''TinyURL''', '''bit.ly''', and other similar services allow long URLs to be converted to smaller ones on their specific service; the small URL is visited by a consumer and their web browser is redirected to the long URL.<br />
<br />
Such services are a ticking timebomb. If they go away, get hacked, or sell out, millions of links will be lost (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot Wikipedia: Link Rot]). [http://www.archive.org/details/301works Archive.org]/301Works is acting as an escrow for URL shortener databases, but they rely on URL shorteners to actually give them their databases. Even 301Works founding member ''bit.ly'' does not actually share their databases and most other big shorteners don't share theirs either.<br />
<br />
== 301Work cooperation ==<br />
[[Image:301works logo.jpg|thumb]]<br />
The fine folks at archive.org have provided us with upload permissions to the [https://www.archive.org/details/301utm 301Works archive]. They unfortunately do not want to make them downloadable, but the same data is in our torrents too, just in a different format (we use pipe-delimited, xz-compressed files while 301works uses comma-delimited uncompressed files).<br />
<br />
== Tools ==<br />
* [https://github.com/chronomex/urlteam fetcher.pl]: Perl-based scraper by [[User:Chronomex]]<br />
* [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/tinyback TinyBack]: Python 2.x-based, distributed scraper (formerly used)<br />
* [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/terroroftinytown-client-grab Terror of Tiny Town]: currently used by ArchiveTeam<br />
<br />
=== Terror of Tiny Town ===<br />
The easiest way to help with scraping is to run the [[Warrior]] and select the ''URLTeam 2'' project. You can also run ToTT outside the warrior; to do so, follow the instructions at https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/terroroftinytown-client-grab.<br />
<br />
== Researching URL Shorteners ==<br />
Here's what to do when you've come across a new URL shortener that should be archived. At minimum, please follow the first step. Anything beyond that is more helpful. Even if you don't know of any shorteners not on the list, additions, updates or verification of the information in existing shortener entries is very welcome!<br />
<br />
* Add it to the [[URLTeam#Alive|Alive]] section of this page in alphabetical order and include the current date. Please include whatever information you have, but at the absolute minimum, we need the domain.<br />
** To add a new shortener to the [[URLTeam#Alive|Alive]] section, you can follow this template:<br />
<pre><br />
|- <br />
| shortener url || date (YYYY-MM-DD) <br />
| information you have gathered on the shortener <br />
</pre><br />
* Check the homepage. Is there a public method to create a shorturl? If so, create one and include it in the entry. If not, note that in the entry.<br />
* If you were able to create a shorturl, try making a second. Is it sequential? For example, if the first link was foo.bar/dbE4g and the second link is foo.bar/dbE4h (or very close to it), it's probably sequential. If you get foo.bar/dbE4g followed by foo.bar/g4rTh, it's probably random. Note in the entry whether the shorturls are random or sequential.<br />
* Run <code>curl -I http://url.short/validshortcode</code> and see which HTTP status code is returned. Also note whether it returns the destination in the Location: header. Note both in the entry.<br />
* Run <code>curl -I http://url.short/invalidshortcode</code> and see which HTTP status code is returned. Note that in the entry.<br />
* If the above fails, make a note of it in the entry and try using <code>curl -i</code> instead of <code>curl -I</code><br />
* Check the homepage, and see if they give a total number of shorturls that their service provides. If so, note that in the entry.<br />
* There are browser plugins/extensions available to make the requests described above from your browser for those without access to <code>curl</code>/command line. (Examples: Advanced REST Client, REST Console)<br />
<br />
=== Common numbers ===<br />
Suitable for use as sequence numbers.<br />
{| class="sortable wikitable"<br />
| 26 letters + 10 digits || 36<br />
|-<br />
| 26 lower case letters + 26 upper case letters + 10 digits || 62<br />
|-<br />
| 36 possibilities ** 3 characters || 46656<br />
|-<br />
| 62 possibilities ** 3 characters || 238328<br />
|-<br />
| 62 ** 4 characters || 14776336<br />
|-<br />
| 62 ** 5 || 916132832<br />
|-<br />
| 62 ** 6 || 56,800,235,584 (too big to cover completely)<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== URL shorteners ==<br />
=== Non-warrior projects ===<br />
These are old grabs pre-dating the warrior project. Unless otherwise noted, they can be found in [https://archive.org/details/URLTeamTorrentRelease2013July the last old-style dump on IA].<br />
<br />
The ''# in dump'' field refers to the number of short URLs included in the last old-style dump.<br />
<br />
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="width: auto; text-align: center"<br />
! Name<br />
! Est. number of shorturls<br />
! Scraping done by<br />
! Status<br />
! Comments<br />
! # in dump<br />
! Example URL<br />
|-<br />
| goo.gl<br />
| ?<br />
| [[User:Scumola]]<br />
| started (2011-03-04)<br />
| goo.gl throttles pulls. Didn't make it into the last old-style dump. Unavailable as of 2017-08.<br />
| 0<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| ff.im<br />
| ?<br />
| [[User:Chronomex]]<br />
| Dead<br />
| only used by FriendFeed. No interface to shorten new URLs. Redirects to Facebook as of 18:51, 2016-06-19 (EDT)<br />
| 1,189,782<br />
| <nowiki>http://ff.im/2p</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| 4url.cc<br />
| 1279 (2009-08-14)<br />
| [[User:Chronomex]]<br />
| done<br />
| dead (2011-02-15). Redirect to ad-laden site as of 18:51, 2016-06-19 (EDT). Also on [https://github.com/chronomex/urlteam/blob/master/ripped/4url.cc.txt GitHub]<br />
| 1,279<br />
| <nowiki>http://4url.cc/Q</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| litturl.com<br />
| 17096 (2010-04-15)<br />
| [[User:Chronomex]]<br />
| done<br />
| dead (2010-11-18). No DNS as of 18:51, 2016-06-19 (EDT). Also on [https://github.com/chronomex/urlteam/blob/master/ripped/litturl.com.txt GitHub]<br />
| 17,096<br />
| <nowiki>http://litturl.com/ZTT</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| xs.md<br />
| 3084 (2009-08-15)<br />
| [[User:Chronomex]]<br />
| done<br />
| dead (2010-11-18). Homepage claims to be "a private folder" as of 18:51, 2016-06-19 (EDT). Also on [https://github.com/chronomex/urlteam/blob/master/ripped/xs.md.txt GitHub]<br />
| 3,084<br />
| <nowiki>http://xs.md/AAZ</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| url.0daymeme.com<br />
| 14867 (2009-08-14)<br />
| [[User:Chronomex]]<br />
| done<br />
| dead (2010-11-18). Also on [https://github.com/chronomex/urlteam/blob/master/ripped/url.0daymeme.com.txt GitHub]<br />
| 14,867<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| tr.im (old)<br />
| 1990425<br />
| ?<br />
| got what we could<br />
| dead (2011-12-31)<br />
| 1,990,425<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| visibli (hex)<br />
| 16777216<br />
| [[User:Chfoo]] [[Warrior]]<br />
| done<br />
| Using links.sharedby.co/links/ as URL prefix. Available on [https://archive.org/details/sharedby_links_urls_20130902 IA]<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| post.ly ([[Posterous]])<br />
| ?<br />
| [[Warrior]]/EC2<br />
| done<br />
| dead. Divided up in 11 files in the last old-style dump.<br />
| 153,281,595<br />
| <nowiki>http://post.ly/3000a</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| zapd.co ([[Zapd]])<br />
| 326592<br />
| [[User:Chfoo]]<br />
| done<br />
| xxxx.zapd.co. Available on [https://archive.org/details/urlteam_zapd_co IA]<br />
| 0<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| bre.ad ([[Bre.ad]])<br />
| 120932351<br />
| [[User:Chfoo]]<br />
| incomplete (59771889 examined)<br />
| de.ad (2013-11-18). Got what I can without overloading their EC2 instance. Available on [https://archive.org/details/urlteam_bread IA]<br />
| 0<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| arseh.at<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 23,655<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| bit.ly<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| divided up into 3,835 files in the last old-style dump, totaling 39 GB (compressed!). Also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 1,507,816,439<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| is.gd<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| divided up into 125 files (totally 8.5 GB) in the last old-style dump. Also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 302,434,257<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| kl.am<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Dead (as of 03:00, 2015-12-03 (EST))<br />
| 1,870,335<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| links.sharedby.co<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| <br />
| 9,298,101<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| ow.ly<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| divided up into 23 files (totaling 4.5 GB) in the last old-style dump. Also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 328,901,265<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| surl.ws<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Yes, there really are only 48 listed.<br />
| 48<br />
| ?<br />
|-<br />
| tny.im<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| <br />
| 1,614<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| snipurl.com<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| divided up into 8 files in the last old-style dump (for a total of 6.8 GB compressed, though). Also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 368,750,225<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| tinyurl.com<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| divided up into 60 files (totaling 9.4 GB) in the last old-style dump. Also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 470,413,092<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| tr.im (new)<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| in the last old-style dump as a file called tr.im-relaunched.txt.xz<br />
| 1,266,068<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| ur1.ca<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| (Note this is named "ur" followed by the digit one, not L.) This got from "0" to "dzzzz". There is also a Warrior project, ''ur1-ca'', below, which continued the grab up to "j5tc9".<br />
| 8,432,282<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| vbly.us<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| also worked on as a Warrior job, see below.<br />
| 114,924<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| xym.kr<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| <br />
| 144<br />
| ?<br />
|- <br />
| twitter-unrolled-urls-spritzer-stream<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| in a 4.6GB file named: twitter-unrolled-urls-spritzer-stream-20111015-20130318.txt.xz ; there's a note about it in the README file<br />
| 257,993,902<br />
| ?<br />
|- class="sortbottom"<br />
! Name<br />
! Number of shorturls<br />
! Scraping done by<br />
! Status<br />
! Comments<br />
! # in dump<br />
! Example URL<br />
|}<br />
<br />
For the last TinyTown updates, please see [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/110A9rzVxWtpc2Qa3Scr4vmVOTsdihw2CN0gqqK2kDvY/edit?usp=sharing chfoo's spreadsheet].<br />
<br />
=== Warrior projects ===<br />
<!-- arguments are: project-name, example url, comment<br />
{{subst:urlteam blank warrior entry|||}}<br />
--><br />
<br />
Pink background refers to currently running projects; gray background to ones that aren't currently making new short URLs.<br />
<br />
Use <nowiki>{{subst:</nowiki>[[Template:urlteam blank warrior entry|urlteam blank warrior entry]]|}} to add new entries. The parameters are project-name, example URL, and comment, in that order.<br />
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="width: auto; text-align: center"<br />
! Warrior project name<br />
! Est. # shorturls<br />
! Last scraped date<br />
! Initially scraped date<br />
! # checked<br />
! Example URL<br />
! Incr<br />
! Comments<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|0-mk}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2018-12-28<br />
| 2018-12-28<br />
| ?<br />
| http://0.mk/1<br />
| ?<br />
| Doesnt appear to be able to create new short codes. existing ones work<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|0rz-tw}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2019-04-26<br />
| 2015-12-20<br />
| 904,730,750<br />
| http://0rz.tw/6eX6j<br />
| ?<br />
| Has a list of existing URLs on front page; all 5 characters long; scrape (2015-12 -- 2016-06) checked all 5 character possibilities, found 23,009,383 shortcodes. Started a Grab from 0 starting 2019-04-26.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|1r-hu}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2018-12-30<br />
| 2014-12-02<br />
| 660048<br />
| http://1r.hu/2lj0<br />
| Y<br />
| Rescan from single digit commenced on 2018-12-30 after a cryptic done message was the only comment. <br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|2-gp}}<br />
| ?<br />
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}<br />
| 2015-12-14<br />
| 17,780,989<br />
| http://2.gp/MqPU (created 2018-12-28)<br />
| Y<br />
| 4-character alphanumeric (excluding "similar looking letters"); seems to check that URL resolves; returns 302 for existing '''AND''' non-existing shortcodes (just returns "Location: /" for non-existing ones); checked all 4 character ones, and some 5 characters in 2015-12-14 through 2015-12-20 scrape. Appears to delete/terminate short urls after a certain date has passed.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|2jump-info}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-12-02<br />
| 2014-12-02<br />
| 298,949<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Banned<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|2-ly}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-20<br />
| 2015-12-14 <br />
| 21,739,150<br />
| http://2.ly/xr<br />
| Y<br />
| looks very similar to 2.gp (but not an alias); returns 302 for existing '''AND''' non-existing shortcodes (just returns "Location: /" for non-existing ones); checked all 4 character ones, and some 5 characters in 2015-12-14 through 2015-12-20 scrape<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|7-ly}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-09-16<br />
| 2016-02-27<br />
| 41,660,850<br />
| <nowiki>http://7.ly/G9</nowiki> <nowiki>http://7.ly/nBCq</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| seems alive as of 2016-08-19; stopped on 2016-03-13 after accidentally storing a bunch of redirects to the home page;<br />
appears to allow public shortening; "no similar looking letters; small or capital letters only"; ; HEAD works; 302 for valid AND invalid; invalid points to homepage;restarted on 2016-09-14 at "1000" (seq # 238328) (then quickly updated to "mzmw" (seq #5379834), because we'd already done the earlier part)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|999-sh}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2018-12-28<br />
| 2018-12-28<br />
| ?<br />
| http://999.sh/1<br />
| ?<br />
| Based on the YOURL scripts<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|adjix}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-1-24<br />
| 2014-12-13 <br />
| 8,615,100<br />
| http://adjix.com/45fj<br />
| ?<br />
| Dead; uses custom code. As of 2018-12-12.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|a-gg}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-02-27<br />
| 2016-02-27<br />
| 17,150<br />
| http://a.gg/es<br />
| Y<br />
| 292 found on 2016-02-27; nice picture of a robot; seems alive as of 02:12, 2015-12-26 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|alturl-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-05-27<br />
| 2015-03-06<br />
| 39,367,900 <br />
| http://alturl.com/wqok<br />
| ?<br />
| Appears to redirect to http://shorturl.com ; Probably sequential/loweralpha; uses custom code<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|ar-gy}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-12-18<br />
| 2014-12-17<br />
| 3,303,100<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Appears down; Argyle Social, main page 404s, existing urls still work<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|arseh-at}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-01-15<br />
| 2015-01-11<br />
| 1,842,350<br />
| ?<br />
| Y<br />
| Appears down; new shorturls: sequential<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|awe-sm}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-04-04<br />
| 2014-12-24<br />
| 967,591,000<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| main page redirects, doesn't allow for new urls to be publicly shortened, existing urls still work; uses custom code<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|bit-do}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-06-28<br />
| 2016-06-20<br />
| 15,950,550<br />
| <nowiki>http://bit.do/ag4</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| seemed alive as of 2016-06-05; error message says it support digits, letters, dash and underscore; testing seems to show case folding, but they claim (in the FAQ) to be case-sensitive, so we have to test for that.<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|bitly_6}}<br />
| 50,000,000,000<br />
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}<br />
| 2014-11-22<br />
| 5,241,010,050<br />
| https://bit.ly/1Zmfo8z<br />
| N<br />
| done: non-sequential 6 characters; current: non-sequential, 6 characters; uses custom code<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|buff-ly}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-03-28<br />
| 2016-03-28<br />
| 42,000<br />
| <nowiki>http://buff.ly/HSRKuV</nowiki><br />
| N<br />
| Buffer App ; ex: <nowiki>http://buff.ly/1fPIjQf</nowiki> (301 - existing; 404 - non-existing), non-incremental (checked as of 02:03, 2015-12-07 (EST)); <nowiki>buff.ly/HSRKuV</nowiki>, <nowiki>buff.ly/1Xj8lhq</nowiki> 3.5Mio - asdASD123, 3.5Mio google hits, 6 and 7 char, Huge shortener. Long running Project for the future. Hosted on 2 servers at softlayer in Phoenix, Az. Protected by prolexic. Seems like it has not implemented rate-limiting. Tested with 500req in 1 min. ; Did some searches of 1, 2, 3 and 5 character codes, with absolutely no results seen.<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|bull-hn}}<br />
| 50,000<br />
| 2016-09-06<br />
| 2015-11-15<br />
| 28,861,855<br />
| http://bull.hn/l/19JQE/<br />
| ?<br />
| Vanity URL shortner for a recruiting company, "Bullhorn Reach"; 1st scrape on in 2015-11, re-scraped in Dec 2015 and again in 2016-09 (from 10000 to 2T6KA) Dead as of 2019-04-16<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|burl-se}}<br />
| 1,500<br />
| 2018-07-27<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 11,650<br />
| http://burl.se/428<br />
| Y<br />
| 200 re-checked on 2015-11-08 ; 63 more found on 2016-06-09 ; full recheck on 2018-07-27<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|ccl-hu}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 97,261<br />
| http://ccl.hu/h0pyr<br />
| ?<br />
| seems to always return 301, even for non-existing links; random sample didn't find any real ones (checked as of 02:03, 2015-12-07 (EST)); nothing found in 100,000 checks -- I think it's dead. Alive Rechecked 2016-07-20.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|chilp-it}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 20,000<br />
| http://chilp.it/1d9c9d1<br />
| N<br />
| seems to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 21:52, 2015-11-21 (EST) ; returns 301 for existing '''AND''' non-existing shortcodes (just returns "Location: http://chilp.it/404.php" for non-existing ones); non-incremental; appears to just use lowercase letters and digits; attempted scraping FAILED -- need to look into why<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|cmplx-it}}<br />
| 36,252<br />
| 2017-04-01<br />
| 2017-03-29<br />
| 4,965,750<br />
| cmplx.it/Sh5j<br />
| ?<br />
| 4 to 5 Character, some legacy 6 Character(bitly) ; asdASD123 ;some 1 char, 2 char ; existing: 301, location: ; not existing: 404 ; seems pretty slow, 25k google hits<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|cort-as}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2019-08-04<br />
| 2019-08-04<br />
| ?<br />
| http://cort.as/-1<br />
| ?<br />
| Includes - in some urls appears to start at single character<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|cutt.us}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-02-27<br />
| 2016-01-10<br />
| 78,596,278<br />
| http://cutt.us/url-shortener<br>http://cutt.us/bitdo<br />
| ?<br />
| Requires GET and content regex. Seems blocked as of 2016-02-27, will try again in a while.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|da-gd}}<br />
| 165,000<br />
| 2016-06-16<br />
| 2015-12-14<br />
| 902,018,849<br />
| http://da.gd/dZdp8<br />
| N<br />
| source code: https://github.com/relrod/dagd - Of note, this shortener will pass along anything after the slash: da.gd/g -> google.com; da.gd/g/mail -> google.com/mail ; paused between 2016-02-22 and 2016-03-06 as it seemed to be reacting badly; finished scanning all the 5 character ones -- found 94,400 entries on 2016-06-16. We need to find out if it supports 6 character ones.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|df4-us}}<br />
| 25,133<br />
| 2018-12-29<br />
| 2015-12-18<br />
| 54,400<br />
| http://df4.us/mn4<br />
| M<br />
| daringfireball.net private shortener : Alive 2015-12-17, no public method to create new URLs. Alphabet appears to be a-z 0-9, most results are 3 characters or less (df4.us/mn4, df4.us/8, df4.us/ib) Valid URLs 301, location is included in header. Invalid URLs 302 to http://daringfireball.net ; on 2015-12-18 -- did a scan of everything up through 3 characters; last found one was seq # 31903 (om7) ; run a rescan next year; rescan on 2017-02-18 from seq# 31900; last found seq # 33417 (ps9) rescanned on 2018-12-29 last found sequence# was 33715<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|db-tt}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-12<br />
| 2015-12-05<br />
| 43,421,600<br />
| https://db.tt/FnHZSr77<br>https://db.tt/b5gwXppx<br />
| N<br />
| Official shortner for Dropbox ; most 8 characters; seen a few that are 7 characters) Only found 21 redirects in over 40 million searches; the space has over 200 *trillion* possibilities.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|dld-bz}}<br />
| -<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 2015-12-05<br />
| 48,897,650<br />
| http://dld.bz/dGjTy<br />
| ?<br />
| "private URL shortening service"; found 8,639,481 in first scrape; we've pretty much covered everything through 4 characters, plus part of 5<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|dlvr-it}}<br />
| ~ 120 million<br />
| 2019-04-15<br />
| 2019-04-03<br />
| 289,157,150<br />
| http://dlvr.it/4Wj<br />
| Y<br />
| Requires free login; then requires connecting to another service; URLs are shortened when sent through. ( as of 01:36, 2015-11-02 (EST)); stopped scrape around hrLxw (seq # 257815314)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|dwurl-hu}}<br />
| <br />
| 2015-11-16<br />
| 2015-11-16<br />
| 3,473,050<br />
| http://dwurl.hu/gMEtiA ( created 01:36, 2015-11-02 (EST))<br />
| N<br />
| Allows public shortening; appears to give 6 character, mixed case alphabetic (no digits), non-incremental URLs<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|feedly_8}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-01-03<br />
| 2015-01-03<br />
| 129,762,450<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Banned; uses custom code<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|flip-it}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-11-30<br />
| 2016-06-6<br />
| 558,342,350<br />
| flip.it/3gM3q flip.it/0KQWN<br />
| ?<br />
| Flipboard -- Heavily used, 5 characters, [a-zA-Z0-9_], looks random from recent google site:flip.it results. GET and HEAD, valid: 302 with destination in Location:, invalid: 404<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|fos-hu}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-06-06<br />
| 2016-06-06<br />
| 672,650<br />
| http://fos.hu/b54 http://fos.hu/b55 <br />
| ?<br />
| incremental alphanumeric, but shares pattern with an image sharing service -- Allows creation of new shortlinks, 3 characters, [a-z0-9], sequential. Attached image sharing service: http://fos.hu/b56 (points to http://fos.hu/?funkcio=kepnezegeto&h=46cda5622ef666c7af4ec58b56bd0c0c) GET and HEAD, valid returns 302 with destination in Location:, invalid returns 302 to Location: http://fos.hu/?nincsmeg ; Found 15,958 in 2016-06 scrape.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|fwdurl-net}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-03-06<br />
| 2015-11-16<br />
| 35,151,181<br />
| http://fwdurl.net/uDRZ4TGAj6V (created 2015-11-16) <br>http://fwdurl.net/aYwa (created Dec 17, 2013) <br>http://fwdurl.net/bjkDtwYAoWSF (created 2015-12-04) <br> http://fwdurl.net/JEcCYlS1Qywv (created 2015-12-28)<br />
| ?<br />
| responds very slowly; stats (including creation date, & hit count) available by suffixing "!"<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|getsatisfaction-com}}<br />
| 8,450,272<br />
| 2017-10-11<br />
| 2017-10-09<br />
| 9,214,450<br />
| <nowiki>https://getsatisfaction.com/t/2aoq7</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Alias gsfn.us, see below<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|gg-gg}}<br />
| 5,091,505<br />
| 2017-09-13<br />
| 2017-05-15<br />
| 108,543,250<br />
| <nowiki>http://gg.gg/4jkvk</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Seems to be sequential five-character lower-case alphanumeric, 301 on success, 302 to homepage on error.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|gkurl-us}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-11-30<br />
| 2016-11-19<br />
| 13,666,000<br />
| <nowiki>http://gkurl.us/au</nowiki> <nowiki>http://gkurl.us/sloon</nowiki> <nowiki>http://gkurl.us/y2tZa</nowiki><br />
| N<br />
| appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 2015-11-21 (EST); fully checked up through 3-character range; only found custom-names in 4-character range so far<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|goo-gl}}<br />
| 10,000,000,000 ?<br />
| 2019-04-19<br />
| 2019-04-19<br />
| ?<br />
| https://goo.gl/1111<br />
| M<br />
| 4-6 chars, A-Za-z0-9, 302 is redirect, 404 is not found, 403 is banned, 302 to https://www.google.com/sorry/index* is rate limited, 200 is for deleted URLs<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|gouri-tv}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2018-12-29<br />
| 2018-12-29<br />
| ?<br />
| http://gouri.tv/1<br />
| N<br />
| Based on the YOURL scripts. Gives 301 on success and 302 to homepage on error.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|go-usa-gov}}<br />
| 3,495,950 (as of 01:13, 2017-03-31 (EDT))<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-03-21<br />
| 60909850<br />
| https://go.usa.gov/cSFeH<br />
| N<br />
| USA government shortlinks, non-sequential, appears to be 5 char [a-zA-Z0-9], may be worth getting a mapping from gibberish to URL; see also 1.USA.gov which is a bit.ly alias ; anyone with a US gov email address can create shorturls to gov web pages<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|hec-su}}<br />
| 518175<br />
| 2015-12-25<br />
| 2015-12-21<br />
| <br />
| https://hec.su/cm5B<br />
| Y<br />
| hec-su was doing some type of slow ban; will need to figure out a way around it<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|hoblu-es}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-06-28<br />
| 2016-06-21<br />
| 23,219,250<br />
| http://hoblu.es/acb<br />
| ?<br />
| private, for the House of Blues concert venue chain; 1-3(maybe 4) character; uppercase, lowercase and digits; legacy 6 Char links (looks like imported bitly links); some Custom strings; existing: 301, Location; not existing: 302, 404 private: /admin, /admin/ <br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|hub-me-a}}<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-10-13<br />
| 0<br />
| http://hub.me/alvyn<br />
| ?<br />
| "a"-type links of hub.me, internal shortener of HubPages. The shortcode in this project is only the part after the leading "a" (e.g. "lvyn" for the example). See below for details.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|isgd_6}}<br />
| 934,134,706 (as of 2013-05-20)<br />
| 2016-05-27<br />
| 2014-11-22<br />
| 2,585,756,925<br />
| http://is.gd/mBNPCM<br />
| ?<br />
| done: sequential up to ZZZZZ ; new shorturls: non-sequential, 6 characters; uses custom code; paused for now (on 2016-05-27) since it switched to HTTPS only, and some of the warriors haven't been updated to support that. TODO: Fix this.<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|jdem-cz}}<br />
| 1,424,052<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 2015-12-15<br />
| 1,000<br />
| http://jdem.cz/bw388<br />
| Y(?)<br />
| random (?) last digit; attempted scraping FAILED -- need to look into why<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|kas-pr}}<br />
| 114,652<br />
| 2017-10-09<br />
| 2017-10-09<br />
| 1,740,350<br />
| https://kas.pr/x4Hq<br />
| ?<br />
| Internal shortener of Kaspersky Lab. Codes are case-insensitive, so only scanning lower-case. Non-sequential, mostly 4 characters long (but some shorter ones exist as well). Stopped after no five-char codes up to <code>11acz</code> were found.<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|kcy-me}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-11-22<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 5,239,050<br />
| http://kcy.me/28trr<br />
| ?<br />
| Shortening service for http://karmacracy.com ; requires free account to create short URLs ; ran initially for one day, re-checked a year later; parking page as of 04:40, 2018-07-28 (UTC)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|korta-nu}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-11-22<br />
| 2015-04-11<br />
| 12,767,850<br />
| http://korta.nu/9ob<br />
| ?<br />
| Initial run ended on 2015-05-27; doing a 2nd pass through the 3-character values starting 2015-11-22<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|lnk-sk}}<br />
| 24,000<br />
| 2015-12-28<br />
| 2015-12-18<br />
| 6,564,050<br />
| http://lnk.sk/6aw <br />
| Y<br />
| site is alive as of 01:31, 2015-12-09 (EST); returns 302 for both existing and non-existing URLs; 82,310 found in scrape up to rxJQ. Dead 403 on both main webpage and test url Rechecked 2016-07-20.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|lnq-me}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-10-26<br />
| 2016-10-6<br />
| 50,037,400<br />
| http://lnq.me/DnXtHO ; lnq.me/qhuG07, lnq.me/lbLqT0<br />
| ?<br />
| alive as of 2015-11-21 ; 6-character, alphanumeric, seems-non-incremental ; http://lnq.me/preview/en/ -- which seems to some kind of bizarre guessing if you put in less than 6 characters (as of 20:33, 2015-11-21 (EST) ) ; alphabet: asdASD123 ; 1,5k ghits ; 6 char; existing: 301 - location; not existing: 404; only found '''10''' results in 20 days of searching 50 million possibilities; might be worth turning it back on, though<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|lurl-no}}<br />
| 2,518<br />
| 2015-12-18<br />
| 2015-12-18<br />
| 3,700<br />
| http://lurl.no/aZ<br />
| Y<br />
| site is up, says "Note: as a result of huge amounts of spam, new lurls are currently disabled." as of 01:31, 2015-12-09 (EST); grabbed all of them on 2015-12-18.<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|m0e-me}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2019-04-14<br />
| 2019-04-14<br />
| 575290<br />
| m0e.me/1iu<br />
| ?<br />
| Doing a complete run through starting from 0<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|migre-me}}<br />
| 423,747,675<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-11-08<br />
| 441,363,315<br />
| http://migre.me/sd9AB<br />
| Y<br />
| up to 5 characters, mixed case alphanumeric, currently around sot00 (as of 03:01, 2015-12-14 (EST)); Interestingly, the 3,822,506 codes from 4JXAG to 50000 are all empty. 4JXAG was created at "07/06/2011 17:06:46" while 50000 was created at "07/06/2011 03:00:00". 50je0 was created at {{url|1=http://www.migre.me/contar-cliques/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.migre.me%2F50je0|2=07/06/2011 17:05:05}}. So it looks like it was handing out both ranges for a few hours, then cut over to just 5's, leaving three million empty. Fascinating. Also, the 10,090,448 codes from 6jF0S (created at 05/12/2011 às 03:43:37) to 70001 (created at 23/11/2011 às 02:22:08) appear to be empty. As of 2016-05-04, we got ALL of it, although since it is still active, we'll need to do a re-check periodically. Recheck on 2017-02-18 starting from seq # 438648250, finished on 2017-02-27 at "w8zzz" (seq # 474886121). Recheck from there tried on 2017-06-12, but the site seemed unresponsive. ; site seems to be down as of 2019-04-02<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|minu-me}}<br />
| 463,698<br />
| 2017-05-09<br />
| 2017-05-02<br />
| 2,450,427<br />
| http://minu.me/a45<br />
| ?<br />
| minURL.fr links redirect to minu.me which seems to be alive (and in French) as of 2015-12-09 and 14:44, 2017-02-04 (EST)<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|mrte.ch}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-04-29<br />
| 2016-03-14<br />
| 113,153,450<br />
| <nowiki>http://mrte.ch/3tc</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| No new URLs allowed (due to spam), but existing ones still work; HEAD request gives 301 for short URLs; 307 for not found; as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT) ; everything 404s as of 2016-04-29 02:15:15 -- we found 54,880,485 short links.<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|mysp-ac}}<br />
| ?<br />
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}<br />
| 2015-02-09<br />
| 16,245,049<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| uses custom code<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|nblo-gs}}<br />
| > 51 million<br />
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}<br />
| 2019-04-3<br />
| 123,371,600<br />
| http://nblo.gs/w453r<br />
| ?<br />
| requires GET requests; no obvious way to create URLs from the home page as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST); seems to have blocked us as of 2019-04-01<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|nig-gr}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-06<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 15,145,600<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Home page is a page that say File not found. (as of 01:38, 2015-11-09 (EST)); re-scan of 2-character range (nothing new found); and 4 character range on 2015-12-06 (started on the 4th, ran till the 7th) Is completely dead. Gives File not found for all results<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|nsfw-in}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-04-24<br />
| 2016-04-13<br />
| 2,469,650<br />
| <nowiki>nsfw.in/TRo</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Almost incremental, Valid: 200 (No Location header), Invalid: 404, <nowiki>http://nsfw.in/</nowiki>[a-zA-Z]{1-3} (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT)); 102,199 found in 2016-04 scrape. May be sold, Alive Rechecked 2016-07-20. Dead as of 2018-12-30<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|oak-ctx-ly}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-04-24<br />
| 2016-03-31<br />
| 30,217,950<br />
| http://oak.ctx.ly/r/rew<br />
| ?<br />
| Returns 301 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 404 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace seems to have reached about 5 characters. Alive as of 07:01, 2016-03-30 (EDT); 7,408,862 found in 2016-03 scrape<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|ow-ly}}<br />
| ?<br />
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}<br />
| 2015-01-20<br />
| 367,074,900<br />
| http://ow.ly/UVFi7<br />
| Y<br />
| owned by Hootsuite; new shorturls: sequential ; (aliases: http://htl.li , http://ht.ly , http://owl.li ); uses custom code<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|pear-ly}}<br />
| 2,897,989<br />
| 2017-04-03<br />
| 2017-03-21<br />
| 15,459,148<br />
| http://pear.ly/6J1H<br />
| ?<br />
| Official shortener for pearltrees.com. Returns 301 for existing AND non-existing shorturls as of 15:30, 2015-12-05 (EST))<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|ph-ly}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-04-04<br />
| 2014-12-13<br />
| 989,290,500<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Related to the pond called Philadelphia, where links are born and raised, doesn't allow for new urls to be publicly shortened, existing urls still work<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|piciurl-hu}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2018-12-29<br />
| 2015-04-11<br />
| 334,350<br />
| http://piciurl.hu/7wr<br />
| Y<br />
| Initial scrape done on 2015-04-11; new scrape done on 2015-12-01 (up to seq# 11043); continued from there on 2017-02-18 for a short time, last found seq# 13686 (9_x). Short scrape done on 2018-12-29 found up to sequence# 13824<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|p-ly}}<br />
| 62,000<br />
| 2016-06-05<br />
| 2015-12-09<br />
| 1,205,082,200<br />
| http://p.ly/abcd<br />
| ?<br />
| (aka re.p.ly) ; it has a shut down message (added sometime between 2012-05-01 and 2012-06-14) but promises to keep existing URLs working as of 01:03, 2015-12-10 (EST) (had 61,306 short URLs as of 2012-05-01); [https://web.archive.org/web/20110226011102/http://p.ly/ this] WB entry shows some short URLs (5 characters, alphanumeric); paused for a while during 2016-02 for unclear reasons<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|poeurl-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-10-10<br />
| 2017-09-30<br />
| 1,538,550<br />
| <nowiki>http://poeurl.com/wwq</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|pub-vitrue-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-11-22<br />
| 2014-11-16<br />
| 15,067,550<br />
| http://pub.vitrue.com/ZxC2<br />
| ?<br />
| Now part of Oracle; uses custom code<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|qr-cx}}<br />
| 2,377,573<br />
| 2015-12-08<br />
| 2015-12-08<br />
| 5,200<br />
| http://qr.cx/Us5p<br />
| ?<br />
| not allowing new shorturls as of 02:09, 2015-12-09 (EST); They made a full dump available after we emailed them! Here: {{url|http://qr.cx/dataset/qrcx_all_06eec9b9-1f29-4860-bd91-49c2d517d87d.7z}} (IA item coming soon)<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|puri-na}}<br />
| ?<br />
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}<br />
| 2019-04-16<br />
| 0<br />
| http://puri.na/gd<br />
| ?<br />
| Seems to be a private shortener for Purina, operated by bitly, but with different codes<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|qt-catbox-moe}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2019-04-7<br />
| 2019-04-6<br />
| 0<br />
| https://qt.catbox.moe/2aef83<br />
| ?<br />
| at risk shortener is a splinter of https://catbox.moe/ returns 301 for successful redirect and 404 for not successful; case-insensitive; we ran this only for codes too short to be actually used (it only used 6 character ones), then the operator asked us WTF we were doing, and offered to make a dump available.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|rod-gs}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-05<br />
| 2015-12-05<br />
| 6,250<br />
| http://rod.gs/1Fl<br />
| Y<br />
| up to 3 characters, alphanumeric, creating new ones appears to hang (as of 02:14, 2015-11-02 (EST)) (returns 301 for existing; 404 for non-existing); searched up to '''1aqa''' on 2015-12-05. Alive Rechecked 2016-07-20.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|rtsoftware-systems}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2019-04-19<br />
| 2019-04-19<br />
| ?<br />
| http://rtsoftware.systems/1<br />
| ?<br />
| Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|sharedby-co_6}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-10-28<br />
| 2015-01-29<br />
| 93,044,500<br />
| http://sharedby.co/pHdLKr<br />
| ?<br />
| (Also see http://vsb.li. Double redirects via USERNAME.sharedby.co/share/XXXXXX ) (and http://shrd.by ); uses custom code. Alive Rechecked 2016-07-20. ; as of 2016-10-28, http://sharedby.co/km3B4o (and others) is returning 301 without a Location header -- needs to be looked into<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|shar-es}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-04-08<br />
| 2014-12-13<br />
| 1,031,784,400<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Still resolves URLs, but the homepage is 404; related to http://sharethis.com ; uses custom code. Alive Rechecked 2016-07-20.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|shortdoi-org}}<br />
| ~10,000<br />
| 2016-06-30<br />
| 2016-06-30<br />
| 113,894<br />
| http://dx.doi.org/bkbk<br />
| Y<br />
| Creates short aliases for DOIs/links. (Apparently they are valid DOIs) Appears sequential, [a-z], 4 character, duplicates re-use existing code: 10.1002/fld.4272 (http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/fld.4272) becomes http://doi.org/bkbj and doi:10/bkbj Next in sequence: http://doi.org/bkbk as of 23:34, 2016-06-29 (EDT) ; shortdoi.org/''shortcode'', shortdoi.org/10/''shortcode'' and dx.doi.org/''shortcode'' all redirect to dx.doi.org/10/''shortcode'' which in turn redirects to the actual DOI (in the form dx.doi.org/10/''doi''). doi.org/''shortcode'' and doi.org/10/''shortcode'' redirect to the actual DOI without the dx part (e.g. doi.org/10/''doi''); 10,809 found.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|shortn-me}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-04-16<br />
| 2016-04-14<br />
| 1,008,050<br />
| <nowiki>http://shortn.me/k3pL</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Likely sequential (Create fails), Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 301 (Location: index.php), <nowiki>http://shortn.me/</nowiki>[a-zA-Z0-9]{1-4}, (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT)); appeared to be down on April 16 -- should probably restart it sometime.<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|shrt-st}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 738,600<br />
| http://shrt.st/vpz<br />
| Y<br />
| Appears down; doesn't allow new urls to be shortened, existing urls still work.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|s-id}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-03-16<br />
| 2016-02-27<br />
| 19,268,596<br />
| http://s.id/Wb<br />
| Y<br />
| Run by PANDI, the registrar for the .id TLD; 20,901 found in 2016-02 scrape<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|sketchfab-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-10-10<br />
| 0<br />
| <nowiki>https://skfb.ly/GXzZ</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://skfb.ly/6nCrW</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Alias skfb.ly, see below<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|spnsr-tw}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2019-04-04<br />
| 2019-04-02<br />
| <br />
| http://spnsr.tw/t1yaP<br />
| ?<br />
| requires GET requests; associated with sponsoredtweets.com; searched up to "KsLg" (11073650) without finding anything; will restart when more examples are seen<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|srtn-us}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-01<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 55,800<br />
| http://srtn.us/10zd<br />
| Y<br />
| still resolves URLs, but site just shows blank page; first scrape on 2014-11-06; re-checked from seq# 47929 through 48441 on 2015-12-01<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|snipurl}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-03-06<br />
| 2015-01-24<br />
| 181,015,750<br />
| ?<br />
| Y<br />
| new shorturls: sequential ; snipr.com / snipurl.com / snurl.com / sn.im - Appears incremental - Ex: http://snipr.com/27nvst http://snipr.com/27nvtt. snipr.com and snipurl.com work but appear infected with malware. ; uses custom code. Dead 404 Rechecked 2016-07-20.<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|snipurl_range2}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-04-20<br />
| 2015-03-06<br />
| 293,372,600<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| see snipurl entry; uses custom code<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|spne-ws}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-12-20<br />
| 2015-12-20<br />
| 134,600<br />
| http://spne.ws/9iN<br />
| ?<br />
| Silicon Prairie News private shortener ; Valid HTTP code is 301. Invalid is 301 as well, but to "http://www.siliconprairienews.com/?awesm=spne.ws_1&utm_medium=spne.ws-root&utm_source=direct-spne.ws&utm_content=root" - Alphabet is A-Z a-z 0-9, most appear to be 3 or less characters. No apparent method to publicly create new URLs. ; 6,898 found in first scrape; re-check in a year or so. Alive Rechecked 2016-07-20.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|sx3-se}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-01-1<br />
| 2016-01-1<br />
| 7,000<br />
| http://sx3.se/7<br />
| ?<br />
| private shortener for swedishstartupspace.se; 948 found<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|t7-hu}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-12-13<br />
| 2014-12-13<br />
| 585,800<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Doesn't make any more shorturls<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|techme-me}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-10-05<br />
| 2016-09-15<br />
| 152199550<br />
| http://techme.me/BekB http://techme.me/A2Fw http://techme.me/BSkF<br />
| ?<br />
| alive as of 2016-08-18; official shortener for Techmeme; (unclear if sequential, [0-9a-zA-Z]{4}) Valid returns 301 redirect, invalid 404 (all the 4-char test values tried returned results) (GET/HEAD)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|theguardian-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-11-07<br />
| 2016-10-14<br />
| 71,910,900<br />
| theguardian.com/p/3f7ca<br />
| ?<br />
| The Guardian (weird format - https://gu.com/p/3f7ca ) ; gu.com redirects to the same shortcode at www.theguardian.com/p<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|tighturl-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-11-22<br />
| 2014-11-16<br />
| 3,123,300<br />
| http://tighturl.com/30xu<br/>http://tighturl.com/30xv<br />
| Y<br />
| (alias: 2tu.us); appears to do case folding; uses custom code; appears to not be accepting new URLs as of 19:33, 2018-12-15 (UTC)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|tiny-tw}}<br />
| 813,979<br />
| 2016-05-05<br />
| 2016-05-07<br />
| 1,778,200<br />
| tiny.tw/3OZk<br />
| Y<br />
| Returns 301 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 301 with empty Location header for invalid URLs. Sequential alphanumeric with uppercase. Namespace has reached 4 characters. Alive as of 03:08, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
|- style="background-color: pink;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|tinyurl_7}}<br />
| 10,000,000,000<br />
| {{CURRENTYEAR}}-{{CURRENTMONTH}}-{{CURRENTDAY}}<br />
| 2014-11-22<br />
| 3,594,972,825<br />
| http://tinyurl.com/mxzufis<br />
| N<br />
| done: sequential to zzzzzz; current: non-sequential, 7 characters; uses custom code<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|tiny-pl}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-04-24<br />
| 2016-04-13<br />
| 20,229,750<br />
| <nowiki>http://tiny.pl/g78rl</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Sequential, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 301 (Location: <nowiki>http://tiny.pl/404.php</nowiki>), <nowiki>http://tiny.pl/</nowiki>[a-z0-9]{1-5}; 730,015 found in 2016-04 scrape<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|tinyurl-hu_4}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-11-01<br />
| 2015-08-13<br />
| 20,308,700<br />
| http://tinyurl.hu/4q22<br />
| ?<br />
| uses custom code<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|tip-pe}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2019-04-16<br />
| 2019-04-16<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Claimed to be a private url shortener no way of creating new short urls. Only appears to have 3 digit short codes<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|trap-it}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-02-20<br />
| 2015-01-01<br />
| 3,130,300<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| first scrape (only covering 5-character codes) from 2015-01-01 through 2015-02-20; next scrape (starting at 0c4uk) began on 2015-12-04 -- unable to load anything (although manual checks of previously found ones seemed to work)<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|tr-im_gravity4}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-12-12<br />
| 2014-12-01<br />
| 42,813,150 <br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| done: sequential to 42pzz ; dead (2014-07-17) ; Appears incremental - Ex: http://tr.im/44tn2 http://tr.im/44tn4. Examples redirect to homepage, may be alive Rechecked 2016-07-20.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|ur1-ca}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-06-16<br />
| 2014-12-17<br />
| 25,560,250<br />
| <nowiki>http://ur1.ca/5bi</nowiki><br />
| Y<br />
| new shorturls: sequential ; FOSS, run by StatusNet; claims to offer a download of their database, but it just contains garbage; 2014-12-17 through 2014-12-20 scrape found 8,343,158 shortcodes from '''dzzzz''' to '''j5tc9'''; 2016-06-09 through 2016-06-16 scrape started with 1 character ones (until I noticed we had already done that, then it switched to continuing where the other one left off) and found about 11 million more shortcodes. Stopped it when it started throwing errors, which was about a two days after it stopped returning any results; last result was '''pbnnp''' (seq #49369792). Alive as of 2017-06-22, database download link now broken.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|urlcut-com}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-03-25<br />
| 2017-03-21<br />
| 740,400<br />
| <nowiki>http://urlcut.com/1xvha</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| "We are not currently accepting new redirects at this time." ; existing ones seem to still work, as of 02:09, 2015-11-02 (EST) ; it returns 302 for both existing *AND* non-existing URLs, and redirects to /abuse.html for terminated ones - 'seems to be done', Paused on 00:52, 2017-03-25 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|u-to}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-11-19<br />
| 2015-05-02<br />
| 54,190,499<br />
| <nowiki>http://u.to/5pkIDw; http://u.to/HzA-Aw</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Doesn't allow new shortened URLs, as of 01:57, 2015-11-19 (EST); checked all the 4 character possibilities; found 13,315,311 URLs. Alive Rechecked 2016-07-20. ; requires GET (not HEAD) requests; returns 302 with target in Location header, 404 for invalid<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|u4-hu}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-11-21<br />
| 2014-11-16<br />
| 98,813,750<br />
| http://u4.hu/x/5Oz<br />
| ?<br />
| Appeared down for a while, but alive as of 2016-07-20. ; 2nd scrape started 2016-09-03 at shortcode "200"<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|vbly-us}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-11-09<br />
| 2015-01-11<br />
| 628,650<br />
| http://vbly.us/2mwv<br />
| Y<br />
| new shorturls: sequential; 2015-11-09 scrape from 2jp6 up to 2mwv (seq # 123000)<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|vgd_6}}<br />
| 20,606,232<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-02-14<br />
| 2,349,689,750<br />
| <nowiki>https://v.gd/FFF54S</nowiki>; <nowiki>https://v.gd/urlteam</nowiki>; <nowiki>https://v.gd/ulrA0Q</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| uses custom code ; it would be named v-gd, but it was one of the earliest projects, and the naming convention hadn't settled down yet ; obscure sibling of is.gd; Not sequential, is random. Has random customization options (standard, lower case, and lower case pronounceable) Allows custom URLs and different protocols (http, ftp, see IANA list of URIs for more). "data:", however is banned. Returns 301 with URL in location header for valid URLs. Returns 404 for invalid URLs. Says on homepage (as of 22:28, 2016-05-05 (EDT)) "Shortening 20,606,232 URLs". Alive Rechecked 2016-07-20.<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|viddy-it}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-12-18<br />
| 2014-11-16<br />
| 832,351,700<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| dead; [[viddy]]; partially saved<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|waa-ai}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-03-20<br />
| 2014-11-16<br />
| 2,182,850<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Requires free login to create shorturls ; initial run for one day on 2014-11-16; another one-day run on 2016-03-20<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|wowurl-com}}<br />
| 540,373<br />
| 2016-06-09<br />
| 2016-05-05<br />
| 18,555,750<br />
| <br />
| Y<br />
| Returns 302 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 200 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace has reached 5 characters. They supposedly have 540373 urls. Alive as of 03:08, 2016-04-29 (EDT); As of 00:04, 2016-06-10 (EDT), it seemed to ignore the first character of the 5 digit shortcodes (i.e. returned the same URL for any first character). As such, stopped at ''b1qo8'' (seemed to be mostly spam, in any case), after finding 1,712,131.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|wp-me}}<br />
| 122,080,510<br />
| 2017-10-22<br />
| 2017-10-07<br />
| 166,679,150<br />
| <nowiki>http://wp.me/f2B5</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| Blog IDs; see the further down for details on the shortener<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|wp-me}}<br />
| 18,075,532<br />
| 2018-12-20<br />
| 2018-12-16<br />
| 33,029,850<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| Continuation of the above starting from the last result in 2017, 9ixzz. Last result in this run: ay3io. Tracker' found/scanned numbers include the previous run (i.e. 140,156,042 and 199,709,000, respectively).<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|xco}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2014-11-22<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| 80,319,800<br />
| <nowiki>http://x.co/1IxUV</nowiki> <br> <nowiki>http://x.co/1IxUW</nowiki> <br> <nowiki>http://x.co/5PSLK</nowiki><br />
| Y<br />
| Appears incremental, but custom ones also exist (up to 10 characters); requires (free) GoDaddy account to create short URLs; uses custom code<br />
|- <br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|xn--i-8ia-ga}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-01-26<br />
| 2016-12-6<br />
| 85,085,600<br />
| http://www.ĝi.ga/lolt<br />
| ?<br />
| Esperanto-language link shortening service. Alive as of 15:55, 2016-12-05 (EST)<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|xrl-us}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-01-10<br />
| 2014-12-12<br />
| 161,601,700<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| self-saved; Thank you Metamark for the database dump!<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|xrl-us_lowercase}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-01-14<br />
| 2015-01-10<br />
| 28,675,900<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| see xrl-us entry<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|xxsurl-de}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-05-16<br />
| 2016-05-14<br />
| 3,097,300<br />
| <nowiki>http://xxsURL.de/11wyx</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| seems alive as of 02:37, 2016-05-14 (EDT) -- Allows creation of new shortlinks, currently 5 characters (lowercase + digits, have not seen any upper case letters) appears to be sequential and lowercase. (<nowiki>http://xxsURL.de/11wyx</nowiki> <nowiki>http://xxsurl.de/11wyy</nowiki>) Allows for custom shortlinks. Valid returns 302, invalid returns 200 with error page, for both GET and HEAD requests, destination in Location header. Appears to provide an incomplete(?) list of shortlinks and a top 20. ; 1,303,470 found in 2016-05 scrape. Dead Rechecked 2016-07-20.<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|y-ahoo-it_5}} {{urlteam_tracker|y-ahoo-it_6}} {{urlteam_tracker|y-ahoo-it_8}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2015-04-04<br />
| 2014-11-06<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| Partial <br/> y-ahoo-it_5: 982,090,300 checked between 2014-11-06 and 2015-02-25 <br/> y-ahoo-it_6: 1,670,279,150 checked between 2014-11-06 and 2015-04-03 <br/> y-ahoo-it_8: 1,952,022,300 checked between 2014-11-06 and 2015-04-04. Now dead.<br />
|- style="background-color: lightgray;"<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|yatuc}} '''AND''' {{urlteam_tracker|yatuc-com}}<br />
| ~ 33,000<br />
| 2016-05-16 (for one day)<br />
| 2014-12-13 (for one day)<br />
| 597,150 (in yatuc job); 7,945,300 (in yatuc-com job)<br />
| <nowiki>http://yatuc.com/u_k</nowiki> ; <nowiki>http://yatuc.com/vr0</nowiki><br />
| ?<br />
| "temporarily disabled" but still resolves shortlinks. Shortlinks appear to be 3 characters (lowercase + digits + "_") (may be random judging from gaps) Doesn't appear to allow custom shortlinks. Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 302 with Location: <nowiki>http://yatuc.com</nowiki> for both GET and HEAD (as of 01:39, 2016-05-15 (EDT)); uses custom code (for yatuc, not yatuc-com job). Dead requires password to add new short urls Rechecked 2016-07-20.<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|yoolink-to}}<br />
| ?<br />
| 2016-06-09<br />
| 2014-11-16<br />
| 344,100<br />
| http://yoolink.to/1dwa<br />
| Y<br />
| Up to 3 characters scraped on 2014-11-16 (a small 2 character segment re-scraped on 2014-11-22); 4 characters (up to 1dwa) scraped between 2015-11-08 and 2015-11-09; 4 characters (from '''1dw6''' to '''1e45''') scraped on 2016-06-09; tried scraping some more on 2018-07-27, but didn't get any results<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|zpr-io}}<br />
| ?<br />
| ?<br />
| 2017-09-30<br />
| 0<br />
| http://zpr.io/nnK7K<br />
| ?<br />
| URL shortener for zapier .com. Their twitter integration will auto shorten links before it posts to twitter. Seems to be the only way to create links. You are able to do it with a free account but it takes some setup. On success it gives HTTP/1.1 302 and redirects to the URL via Location header. On fail it gives HTTP/1.1 200 and spits out a short json error (/--test--). Appears to be sequential (/nnidd and /nnide). Likewise /nnK7K and /nnK7L work but /nnK7l does not (as of 2017-09-29). No public URL count available. More extensive notes here https://gist.github.com/Soulflare3/d3c016f27439630b926527b287687aba<br />
|-<br />
| {{urlteam_tracker|zurl-ws}} <br />
| 2,647<br />
| 2016-05-16<br />
| 2016-05-17<br />
| 2,139,600<br />
| http://zurl.ws/39x<br />
| Y<br />
| Currently cannot create account/shortlinks, resolves existing. Shortlinks appear to be 3 character (lowercase + digits), appears to be sequential (judging from patterns in sequential shorturls). Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 200 with error page. GET and HEAD (as of 01:39, 2016-05-15 (EDT)). Alive requires account to use Rechecked 2016-07-20.<br />
|- class="sortbottom"<br />
! Warrior project name<br />
! Est. # shorturls<br />
! Last scraped date<br />
! Initially scraped date<br />
! # checked<br />
! Example URL<br />
! Incr<br />
! Comments<br />
|}<br />
<br />
=== Alive ===<br />
<br />
(please keep list alphabetized, and list verification dates inline)<br />
<br />
Sources include: {{url|http://blog.go2.me/2009/01/exhausting-review-of-link-shorteners.html}} (last updated 2009-08-14), {{url|http://code.google.com/p/shortenurl/wiki/URLShorteningServices}} (Updated 2011-05-19; not fully integrated yet), {{url|https://www.hashtags.org/platforms/twitter/list-of-url-shorteners/}}, {{url|http://bit.do/list-of-url-shorteners.php}} (as of 01:49, 2016-02-10 (EST)), {{url|http://blogtimenow.com/free-lists/free-url-shortener-services-shrink-links/}} (as of 03:08, 2016-04-29 (EDT))<br />
<br />
{| class="sortable wikitable" style="width: auto; text-align: center"<br />
! Shortener<br />
! Last Checked on<br />
! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| 0x0.st || 2019-03-29<br />
| 302 redirect on success, 404 on error; source code is available at https://github.com/lachs0r/0x0; less than 1k URLs as of 2017-01-01. Example: <nowiki>https://0x0.st/QX</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| 1o2.ir || 2019-03-29 <br />
| Iranian shortener; redirects using JavaScript; alias: qqt.ir; shortcodes: <code>[a-z0-9]{5}</code>; alive as of 2017-08-21 19:10 UTC. Example: <nowiki>http://1o2.ir/u4qer</nowiki> Not incremental.<br />
|-<br />
| 9en.us || 2019-03-29 <br />
| appears to charge for creating short URLs; called a scam on various websites; ad-heavy with obfuscated JavaScript; seems alive as of 2017-08-21 19:30 UTC. Example: <nowiki>http://9en.us/gjde</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| abelinc.me || 2019-03-29 <br />
| Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.<br />
|-<br />
| ad7.biz || 2019-04-06<br />
| pays short URL creators; ad-heavy with obfuscated JavaScript; seems alive as of 2017-08-21 19:35 UTC. Example: <nowiki>http://ad7.biz/oLJz</nowiki> appears incremental.<br />
|-<br />
| adf.ly || 2017-08-21<br />
| incremental; displays interstitial ads, so requires custom code; aliases: q.gs, j.gs (separate shortcodes?). Examples: <nowiki>http://adf.ly/bnpYL</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://adf.ly/1RP4DP</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| adfoc.us || 2017-08-21<br />
| displays interstitial ads; appears to require certain headers; target link as cleartext in HTML; current shortcodes appear to be incremental decimal numbers with a prepended "x" (as of 2017-08-21 19:50 UTC), but there are also other formats. Example: <nowiki>http://adfoc.us/x65403071</nowiki><br><small><small><small><code>curl --header "Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,appn/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8" --header "User-Agent:Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/54.0.2840.71 Safari/537.36" <nowiki>http://adfoc.us/serve/?id=27122857065955</nowiki></code></small></small></small><br />
|-<br />
| adshrink.it || 2019-04-05<br />
| Alive<br />
|-<br />
| ah.pe (adhy.pe) || 2018-12-20 <br />
| No login required to create URL's. Creates URL's sequentially. Returns 200 for a existing URL and 302 for a non-existing one.<br />
The successful 200 is a redirect to a captcha. Example: http://ah.pe/bpSD <br />
|- <br />
| ai6.net || 2019-06-02 <br />
| Return on success: [301]. Return on error: [410]. Seems to be non-sequential. No Login required to create shortened URLs. Example: https://ai6.net/z7FXsZ.<br />
|-<br />
| at5.us || 2017-08-21<br />
| 302 redirect on success, 404 on error; requires an account for creating short URLs.<br />
|-<br />
| at.cmt.com || 2016-09-17<br />
| Country Music Television - Appears to be a vanity domain hosted on ow.ly infrastructure.<br />
|-<br />
| azon.biz || 2018-12-13<br />
| Gives 200 on error. Gives 301 on success. Starts at Single character. Doesn't appear to be accepting new short urls.<br />
|-<br />
| b23.ru || 2016-01-02<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| b54.in || 2019-01-07<br />
| Gives 301 for valid URLs and 307 for invalid URLs. It is possible to enter keywords to create personalized URLs. Seems to be non-sequential. Example: b54.in/9me4<br />
|-<br />
| bc.vc || 2016-06-05<br />
| displays interstitial ads ; Example: <nowiki>http://bc.vc/8nCbMs</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| bernie.to || 2016-03-21<br />
| No public method for creating shortcodes. Homepage redirects to campaign homepage. 307 Proxy Redirect for (vaild) bernie.to/pb and /vol and same status code for invalid shortcode. Seems to all be custom names, according to those used on reddit: http://reddit.com/domain/bernie.to As of 17:24, 2016-03-21 (EDT)<br />
|- <br />
| bfy.tw || 2018-12-30<br />
| All links I've seen to this shortener redirect to lmgtfy.com (Let Me Google That For You). 302 on success 404 on error. Not sure if possible to create new short urls. <br />
|-<br />
| bit.do || 2016-08-06<br />
| Appears non-incremental, public method allowed on Homepage, edit/delete/change destination allowed only after login.<br />
Short code ci7JZ points to this page.<br />
Adding "-" after short urlshows statistics, default public, but can be made private if logged in.<br />
Custom words allowed.<br />
Non-custom Shorturls are random.<br />
Response Header is HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently. Returns the destination in the Location: header.<br />
A link created on 2016-08-04 00:01:43 display message in its private statics/admin page "This is link number 22183012 created ....".<br />
No API/Bookmarklet/Extensions.<br />
Offers custom domain at $85/year, but can also be addded for free.<br />
|-<br />
| b.link || 2018-12-26<br />
| Trying to be the next bitly. Offers plenty of custom domains as well as choice between the redirect being a 301 or a 307. Warrants a list of aliases on the wiki.<br />
|-<br />
| bnc.lt|| 2019-12-31<br />
| Part of branch.io. Examples: https://bnc.lt/8tracks-ios https://bnc.lt/8tracks-android https://bnc.lt/8tracks-windows<br />
|-<br />
| branch.io || 2019-12-31<br />
| Offers custom short URLs for deep linking and redirects. Uses bnc.lt domain.<br />
|- <br />
| BTC.ms || 2018-12-17 <br />
| No Login required to create links. The links seem to be non-sequential. 7,287,276 links already created. Returns 200 with existing link. Non-existing return 404. Example: http://btc.ms/72i4y1N4udHgK40FF0<br />
|-<br />
| budurl.com || 2015-12-06<br />
| Appears non-incremental, apparently all custom names; only paying clients allowed to create URLs (checked as of 02:03, 2015-12-07 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| buzurl.com || 2015-12-19<br />
| Example: http://buzurl . com/li04 ; link broken, home page is blank as of 23:40, 2015-12-19 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| cede.la || 2019-04-16<br />
| Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.<br />
|-<br />
| clck.ru || 2019-01-01<br />
| Allows New Urls to be created. Gives 404 on error and 302 to a yandex redirect on success which then redirects to content. May be incremental tests were inconclusive. <br />
|-<br />
| cl.ly || 2016-09-17<br />
| CloudApp ; requires application to create short URLs<br />
|-<br />
| clicky.me || 2016-07-13<br />
| Requires paid account (& installation of a tracking system on your website) to create links; HEAD requests seem to return 301 with Location; non-existing seem to return 302 to homepage<br />
|-<br />
| cort.as || 2019-01-02<br />
| Accepting Url shorteners. Gives 200 on error and 301 on success. URLs may be sequential testing was inconclusive. All Links found have a - before the actual short code for example http://cort.as/-DX0b<br />
|- <br />
| cpc.cx || 2019-12-24 <br />
| Run by Canard PC, a French gaming magazine, however has a public interface to allow anyone to shorten a URL. The acronym cpc.cx is stated to stand for "Canard PC Crush linX". Website copyright notice is "(c) Teraboule Technology 2009-2016" (viewed in 2019-12).<br />
|-<br />
| cur.lv (CoinURL.com) || 2016-05-18<br />
| Subdomains include: bit, go, in, jump, link, me, my, n, name, now, to. -- Allows creation of new shortlinks, displays interstitial ads. Appears sequential, 5 characters, [a-z0-9]. Javascript updates HTML body: <code>ifr.src = "<nowiki>http://cur.lv/redirect_curlv.php?code=</nowiki>" + escape(c) + "&ticket=" + ticket + "&r=" + (document.referrer ? escape(document.referrer) : '');</code>, destination link in <code><a ..id="skip-ad" ></code>. Examples: <nowiki>http://cur.lv/ypc7w</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://cur.lv/ypc7x</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| decenturl.com || 2016-02-10<br />
| Makes human-readable URLs from page titles; not at all easy to scrape. Requires one-time payment and registration to create URLs as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| del.ly || 2016-05-18<br />
| sprinklr -- Used on twitter by @DellOutlet and @DellCaresKR (and elsewhere?) to link to various marketing campaigns. Appears to use a 4 numerical digits "601" + [0-9] + 5 characters [a-zA-Z0-9], not clear if sequential or otherwise (recent links seem to be of the form 601#Bxxxx) http://del.ly/6012BoNrp del.ly/6010BUbi6 (301 Redirect, destination in Location:, invalid returns 301 to http://del.ly/error?url=[invalid code])<br />
|-<br />
| derpy.me || 2019-11-11<br />
| Popular URL shortener in the My Little Pony fandom. 61641 shorturls. Random identifiers, appear to be [a-zA-Z0-9]{5}. Valid links return a 302 redirect, destination in Location header. Invalid links return 302 with Location: http://derpy.me/. Lost its database once already in 2015-03 (see http://derpy.me/about and https://twitter.com/derpyme/status/580403557939154944), unknown if newly generated links may collide with old ones from before then. Run by two people, contacted to inform about 301Works. Example links generated in quick succession: http://derpy.me/W0ocw http://derpy.me/GigAo.<br />
|-<br />
| digbig.com || 2016-02-10<br />
| no longer accepting new users as of 2014-03-01; site appears to still be up as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| dogeurl.com || 2015-12-21<br />
| Alive 12-21-2015 Non-incremental, alphabet A-Z a-z 0-9, 6 characters long, with custom option Valid: 301 to destination, Invalid: 302 to https://dogeurl.com/invalid.php<br />
|-<br />
| doiop.com || 2018-12-27<br />
| Appears non-incremental ; allows unicode in short codes; appears alive as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (EST)<br />
|- <br />
| donotlink.it || 2017-05-27<br />
| appears random, examples https://donotlink.it/Z2KP https://donotlink.it/AKbJ https://donotlink.it/qbpb, valid: 200 OK, invalid: 404 Not Found. "Most donotlink.it URLs are 4-6 characters, only include letters and numbers (and are case sensitive) (e.g. https://donotlink.it/zxwL) or have another URL appended (e.g. https://donotlink.it/http://example.com)" (from page that appears for invalid links)<br />
|-<br />
| dstats.net || 2016-07-13<br />
| Seems alive<br />
|-<br />
| durl . me/durl.kr || 2016-06-19<br />
|<br />
appears to allow public creation of shorturls; as of 22:00, 2015-11-21 (EST)<br />
ex: http://durl . me/7ainhy http://durl . me/cfvj3d http://durl . me/cf9ssv<br />
Non Sequential, random 6 Char, Charset asd123, 165k hits(google)<br />
pretty slow, displays warning on new(low frequent?) sites.<br />
last twitterpost is from 2009<br />
Redirect: 302 Location, 200 div content a href url<br />
no redirect: 404<br />
very weird, has 2 ways of redirecting. Links for 200-Pages have to be extracted from html<br />
|-<br />
| dy.fi || 2016-08-19<br />
| Finnish site (although in English), shortlink maker is on a subpage; claims to erase links when they haven't been used for 6 months<br />
|-<br />
| easyurl.net || 2016-09-18<br />
| (alias: atu.ca , readthis.ca , clickthru.ca , redirects.ca ) Appears non-incremental; only available to customers of easyDNS.com ; Ex: http://easyurl.net/afd2f easyurl.net/5e3a ; seems alive; alphabet upper and lower case and digits; excluded from google; 4-5 char, some custom; existing: 302 - location; not existing: 301 - http://easyurl.net/local404.php<br />
|-<br />
| https://esgr.xyz/ || 2019-04-15<br />
| Alive<br />
|-<br />
| fanpa.ge || 2016-06-19<br />
|<br />
3-5 Character<br />
asdASD123<br />
Google sees 40k links, basically all 5 Character. some 3 Character links like asd, private?<br />
allows Custom urls<br />
redirect: 301, location<br />
no redirect: 404<br />
|- <br />
| fckaf.de || 2019-06-01 <br />
| Return on success:[200]. Return on error:[404]. Seems to be non-sequential. No Login required to create shortened URLs. Example: https://fckaf.de/gvZ <br />
|-<br />
| ffm.to || 2019-04-08<br />
| Alive<br />
|-<br />
| filoops.info || 2016-01-29<br />
| Appears to allow public shortening; seems alive as of 01:15, 2016-01-29 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| firsturl.de (alias firsturl.net/wyon.de/fiurl.de/) || 2016-02-17<br />
| Appears alive and allowing public shortening as of 01:20, 2016-02-17 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| www.flq.us || 2018-12-30<br />
| Closed due to abuse. Existing links still work Curious in the flq.us/a for example first 301 redirects to www.flq.us/a before redirecting to desired content. 301 on successful redirect and 404 on error.<br />
|-<br />
| flyt.it || 2019-04-03<br />
| Works as of 2019-04-03<br />
|-<br />
| fnd.us || 2016-09-17<br />
| (See offical shorteners)<br />
|-<br />
| fork.cc || 2018-12-27<br />
| Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.<br />
|-<br />
| fuck.it || 2019-05-25<br />
| Example: https://fuck.it/0hAxF . Returns 301 on success and 200 on error.<br />
|-<br />
| fur.ly || 2016-07-13<br />
| Claims to allow you to "Shorten multiple urls into one" whatever that means.<br />
|-<br />
| gdurl.com || 2016-05-28<br />
| allows public shortening of Google Drive public-linked files, example http://gdurl.com/s3tF , not sequential (jumped from http://gdurl.com/8T-v to http://gdurl.com/s3tF when tried two different files seconds after each other), 236,285 urls shortened as of 18:29, 2016-02-24 (EST), has a public list of "all" permalinks - note this appears to be inaccurate (there is an option to not make the link public in the list when it is created) -- for GET and HEAD, valid returns 307 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 404 ; alias: yuarel.com<br />
|-<br />
| go.web.cern.ch/go || 2019-10-21<br />
| New URLs can only be created by those with a CERN account, URLs can also be deleted by users. [a-zA-Z0-9]{4} ,seemingly not sequential. Returns 301 on success and 404 on error. cern.ch/go is an alias but will always return 302 and redirect to the corresponding go.web.cern.ch/go link.<br />
|-<br />
| hii.fyi || 2019-04-05<br />
| Alive<br />
|-<br />
| hive.co/l || 2016-05-30<br />
| this is an component of the hive.co website: artists can create shortned urls of their tracks. Seems to also resolve to some other links too. Characters (i hadn't seen any other characters in the links as of now): "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789" Url format: hive.co/l/a hive.co/l/aa hive.co/l/aaa hive.co/l/aaaa and so on. Custom named ones found. (positions 1 and 2 are already archived) Status codes: 404 Not found, 302 redirect. example curl -i output http://paste.harrycross.me/view/6fcacf91#b5hwPAqom5CAJqVEELvF9Y89VvHnsnMm.<br />
|-<br />
| hotshorturl.com || 2016-07-13<br />
| Requires free account to shorten URLs; example listed: hotshorturl.com/fv57<br />
|-<br />
| ity.im || 2015-12-19<br />
| shows adverts, not clear if it still works as of 23:40, 2015-12-19 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| jnl.io || 2019-04-16<br />
| Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.<br />
|-<br />
| joturl.com || 2016-09-17<br />
| Doesn't appear guessable, HTML redirect ; smarturl.eu redirects here, but claims "not to be active"<br />
|-<br />
| katzr.net || 2020-03-13<br />
| URLS of the form https://katzr.net/4c993f. IDs appear to be random. Returns a 301 error for both invalid and valid shortcodes. Destination is returned in the Location: header. http:// URLs redirect to https://. URLs without the www subdomain redirect to the same URL ''with'' the www subdomain.<br />
|-<br />
| kaywa.me || 2018-12-12<br />
| Gives 200 for error or bad code. Gives 302 for successful redirect. Starts at single character from observation.<br />
|-<br />
| kek.gg || 2017-08-24<br />
| also an image host; currently generates non-sequential, four-character codes with at least the char set <code>[a-zA-Z0-9-_]</code>; always serves status 200; redirects using JavaScript but also offers a direct link in HTML. Examples: <nowiki>https://kek.gg/u/LXcZ</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kek.gg/u/5Xh4</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kek.gg/u/-kCG</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kek.gg/u/nL_V</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kek.gg/u/Yhs_</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| kics.it || 2016-09-17<br />
| shourturl creation restricted to users of "MiniCRM"<br />
|- <br />
| kortlink.dk || 2019-05-13<br />
| Danish URL shortener. No HTTPS. URLs are generated sequentially, starting at kortlink.dk/a, adding extra characters and ending in, at time of writing, kortlink.dk/xy5n. URLs are case insensitive. For 1 and 2 character URLs, the character set seems to be abcdefghijklmnoqrstuvwxyz0123456789, while it changes to abcdefghkmnpqrstuvwxyz23456789 for 3 and 4 characters. Total number of links today is therefore less than 838.260. Valid links return a 302 status code with a valid Location header, while invalid links return a 302 status code with an empty Location header.<br />
|-<br />
| l9k.net || 2016-03-13<br />
| seems alive, allows public shortening as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| lien2.com || 2015-11-29<br />
| http://lien2 . com/go/a6cx ; seems-non-incremental, only 583 shortened urls (as of 02:27, 2015-11-29 (EST) )<br />
|-<br />
| lil.ink || 2019-04-16<br />
| Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.<br />
|-<br />
| lingid.ee || 2020-03-26<br />
| Based on [https://gempixel.com/short/ Gempixel's shortener], the page used to also shorten urls for lingid.eu min.ee mmmm.ee and lmo.ee what are all now dead. Hosted and managed by [https://www.virtuaal.com/ Virtuaal OÜ].<br />
|-<br />
| linkbucks.com || 2016-05-28<br />
| Claims to be the "Social Advertising Network", appears to offer keyword highlighting, iframe and link-redirect advertising. Requires an account to create links, needs more investigation.<br />
|-<br />
| linkbun.ch || 2016-03-14<br />
| combines multiple URLs into one short URL, probably requires custom code -- 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| lin.io || 2015-12-07<br />
| uses frame/toolbar (site is alive as of 01:09, 2015-12-07 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| ln.is || 2015-12-12<br />
| linkis.com (also provides a way to comment on the linked page) ; ex: http://ln . is/vine.co/v/UA0PH -- the destination server appears to be included in the shortcode, which should make it harder to scrape (as of 02:56, 2015-12-12 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| lt.tl || 2015-12-09<br />
| site is up, says "Service will be back soon..." as of 01:31, 2015-12-09 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| ly.my || 2015-12-07<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| macte.ch || 2016-03-14<br />
| seems alive, allows public shortening as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| mcaf.ee || 2016-04-29<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| merky.de || 2016-03-14<br />
| seems alive, allows public shortening as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| mgnet.me || 2016-05-28<br />
| for torrent magnet URIs. -- Allows creation of new links, allows custom links. Sequentially generated: http://mgnet.me/bOwH7Kc http://mgnet.me/bOwH7K6 http://mgnet.me/bOwH7qZ (Also found examples: 2014-10 ZxVD8CX; 2016-05-06 bwxF6mZ) Unsure of ordering pattern. GET and HEAD request 200 status code (GET returns page with magnet link) with magnet link in header Magnet-Uri, Invalid code returns 302 with mgnet.me in Location header (both GET and HEAD).<br />
|-<br />
| miburl.com || 2019-01-01<br />
| Url shortener for Mibbit. Not Sequential. 302 on successful redirect. 404 on error. Example url is http://miburl.com/Onm1eE<br />
|- <br />
| moourl.com || 2016-03-14<br />
| Random (alive as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| multiurl.com || 2016-07-13<br />
| Claims to let you share multiple URLs at once<br />
|-<br />
| my.dot.tk/tweak || <br />
| Appears non-incremental<br />
|-<br />
| nao.usem.xyz || 2017-01-06<br />
| takes screenshots of objectionable pages and displays them instead of the actual page, to avoid ad revenue. nonprofit without donation methods, could go away at any time. online as of 20:28, 2017-01-06 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| nazr.in || 2020-04-16<br />
| Uses base 62 encoding, sequentially generated. Both valid and invalid URLs return 301 with the short URL in the Location header, but invalid URLs redirect to the nazr.in home page. Example: http://nazr.in/1dDw<br />
|-<br />
| nbx.ch || 2015-12-09<br />
| private shortener; appears up as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| nixle.us || 2020-04-27<br />
| Used by local governments(example being Fairfax County) to send out alerts. Seems to be sequential, and a alphanumeric 5-digit code(example nixle.us/BPC4E). Both active and inactive links return 200.<br />
|-<br />
| nohref.hu || 2016-09-17<br />
| Hungarian site; Allows custom shorturl & deletes links after a specified time period (or 1 year without use)<br />
|-<br />
| notlong.com || 2015-11-07<br />
| Appears to be alpha-only - Ex: http://yeitoo.notlong . com/ ; doesn't seem to be allow creating new shorturls, as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| nowlinks.net || 2016-07-13<br />
| Seems alive; example URL created on 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT): http://nowlinks.net/Qh7id2<br />
|-<br />
| nutshellurl.com || 2016-03-20<br />
| Appears incremental. 301s to a redirector script, which then 301s you to the destination. Seems alive as of 14:59, 2016-03-20 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| omani.ac || 2016-07-13<br />
| May be alive; creating a URL seemed to fail<br />
|-<br />
| ouo.io || 2018-12-18 <br />
| No Login required to create a URL. The links seem to be non-sequential. Example: http://www.ouo.io/iGKTD <br />
|-<br />
| ozn.st || 2016-07-13<br />
| Claims to be for personal use only<br />
|-<br />
| p.pw || 2015-11-07<br />
| sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape (as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| perma.cc || 2016-06-29<br />
| Web snapshotting for academics, while not strictly an URL shortener, I'd like to see all of the perma.cc item pages in the Wayback. Here's how to generate the list of all public perma.cc/FOO links:<br />
curl 'https://api.perma.cc/v1/public/archives/?limit=3&offset=0' | bin/jq '.objects[] | .guid'<br />
curl 'https://api.perma.cc/v1/public/archives/?limit=3&offset=3' | bin/jq '.objects[] | .guid'<br />
|- <br />
| plu.sh || 2019-05-26 <br />
| Return on success:[301]. Return on error:[404]. Seems to be sequential (?) (https://plu.sh/vgauq -> https://plu.sh/vwp6u). No login required to create shortened URLs. Example: https://plu.sh/vgauq<br />
|-<br />
| po.st || 2015-11-07<br />
| "social sharing platform"; no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| prettylinkpro.com || 2016-02-10<br />
| "Affiliate Link Cloaker and URL Shortener for WordPress"; doesn't seem to provide public shortening; unclear what the short URLs look like; site appears alive as of 01:10, 2016-02-10 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| prsm.tc || 2016-06-10<br />
| getprismatic.com ; ex: http://prsm.tc/GB2HP2 -> http://getprismatic.com/story/1428656915049?share=MzY4MjEx.MTQyODY1NjkxNTA0OQ.gH9aD6dy4y7zDFgIYQcLrW9KaeE -> (via some convoluted mess) http://scvincent.com/2015/04/10/when-reviews-really-matter/ ; non-redirects still get redirected to http://getprismatic.com/404 -- getprismatic.com no longer resolves, prsm.tc resolves but returns 503 with "Back-end server is at capacity" reason as of 03:31, 2016-06-10 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| ptiturl.com || 2016-03-20<br />
| appears to be in French; seems alive and allowing public shortening as of 14:59, 2016-03-20 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| qik.li || 2015-12-12<br />
| site appears to allow public shortening as of 02:24, 2015-12-12 (EST); tried to set up a warrior job, but it kept erroring out, as of 02:13, 2017-03-21 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| qoo.ly || 2017-12-29<br />
| Appears to use 5 character, lowercase letters and numbers. Valid: 301, destination in Location header. Invalid: 404, sets cookie (Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=..), plain text content. Homepage used to be an url shortener, after 2016-05-23 (according to archive.org) qoo.ly homepage is broken in its current form. *Now it may* be a social media management shortener by socialreport.com<br />
|-<br />
| qqt.ir || 2017-08-21<br />
| Alias of 1o2.ir; simply 301 redirects all URLs (including invalid shortcodes) to 1o2.ir; alive as of 2017-08-21 19:10 UTC. Example: <nowiki>http://qqt.ir/u4qer</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| qr.net || 2016-02-10<br />
| has a redirect from http://3.ly (but other pages on 3.ly seem to redirect to a parking page, http://www.threely.com ) ex: qr.net/bpEjJ & qr.net/bitdo ; allows public shortening; 6,270,241 made as of 01:10, 2016-02-10 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| qttr.at || 2016-12-04<br />
| shortener for quitter.se (and possibly other GNU social instances that go by the name of quitter, such as https://quitter.no and https://quitter.is. Works as of 18:57, 2016-12-04 (EST)<br />
|-<br />
| qurl.com || 2015-12-10<br />
| site appears to allow public shortening as of 01:03, 2015-12-10 (EST) (also runs an image sharing service)<br />
|-<br />
| r.ebay.com || 2016-06-10<br />
| Working and producing new shortlinks. Currently 6 characters, [a-zA-z1-9], looks random. Responds to both GET and HEAD requests. Valid returns 301 to rover.ebay(.com,co.uk,de,etc.), then another 301 to eBay. (com,co.uk,etc.)/itm/.. (How long are expired item listings kept? These likely expire at the same time.) Invalid returns 301 to http://pages.ebay.com, then another 301 to http://www.ebay.com - ex: r.ebay.com/gjbfkl r.ebay.com/rOhipo r.ebay.com/IH3etu r.ebay.com/eF1ofu<br />
|-<br />
| rebrandly.com || 2018-02-21<br />
| Example URL: http://brand.cool/books <br />
|-<br />
| retcialis.com || 2019-04-16<br />
| Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.<br />
|-<br />
| rlu dot ru || 2016-05-15<br />
| seems alive as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT) - Allows creation of new shortlinks, does not appear to allow custom shortlinks. Currently issues 4 characters, older links use 3 characters, appears to use [a-zA-Z0-9]*, seems to be sequential: http://rlu . ru/TDzw http://rlu . ru/TDzz Valid returns 301 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 404 (GET and HEAD). (as of 17:18, 2016-05-15 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| s.maro.xyz || 2018-07-12<br />
| Returns 302 with the destination in the Location header for valid IDs, 404 otherwise; [https://github.com/Kiniamaro/short.maro.xyz/blob/8813b6da2822b6cfe949ee4ec8483c1979491c30/app.py#L21-L26 IDs are made of 7 random characters from the <code>a-zA-Z0-9</code> range.] [https://github.com/Kiniamaro/short.maro.xyz/ Source code]; example: <nowiki>https://s.maro.xyz/qwemTVx</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| s2r.co || 2016-07-13<br />
| Seems alive<br />
|-<br />
| s7y.us || 2016-03-20<br />
| seems alive and allowing public shortening as of 14:59, 2016-03-20 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| safe.mn || 2016-04-03<br />
| Claims to provide archive of shortened URLs at safe.mn/static/safemn.zip ; seems alive as of 01:12, 2016-04-03 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| seomafia.net || 2016-07-13<br />
| Seems alive; example URL created at 02:00, 2016-07-14 (EDT): http://seomafia.net/aN5V<br />
|-<br />
| shadyurl.com || 2016-04-12<br />
| Complex, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 301 (Empty location), ex.: http://www.5z8 dot info/trojan_sunz http://www.5z8 dot info/how-to-stop-immigration-for-good.pdf_w7g7no_yourdick (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| shorl.com || 2016-04-12<br />
| Will need custom code to accommodate "Koremutake", an alphabet of 128 phonetically unique phonemes, which is documented [https://gist.github.com/anonymous/599ba4c17599cd213005 here] and at <nowiki>http://shorl dot com/koremutake.php</nowiki>. Random six-phoneme code (meaning there are 128⁶ = 4.4 trillion combinations), valid: 200 (no Location header), invalid: 404, <code><nowiki>http://shorl[.]com/[a-z]{13}</nowiki></code>, ex.: <nowiki>http://shorl dot com/tisikestibahu</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://shorl dot com/stugipenefife</nowiki> (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT); verified 2017-10-09 15:30 UTC)<br />
|-<br />
| shorte.st || 2016-09-17<br />
| sells interstitial ads before showing the full URL; likely to be harder to scrape<br />
|-<br />
| shorturl.at || 2017-12-18<br />
| example shorturl.at/gmvY2; random 5 char/digit; always 302, on valid redirects to site, on invalid to main website (https://www.shorturl.at/)<br />
|-<br />
| shorturl.com || 2016-04-12<br />
| Random, Valid: 302 (Location header correct), Invalid: 200, http://alturl dot com/[a-z0-9]{5}, ex.: http://alturl dot com/j5vmv (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| shorturl.im || 2016-10-07<br />
| Probably owned by the same people as shrink.im, based on the reused graphics / design<br />
|-<br />
| shrink.im || 2016-10-07<br />
| Probably owned by the same people as shorturl.im, based on the reused graphics / design<br />
|-<br />
| sh.st || 2016-10-03<br />
| Alternative domain name for shorte.st, and one letter away from what it should be. Displays ads before redirection. Fails to redirect with Javascript disabled.<br />
|- <br />
| slink.co || 2019-05-27 <br />
| Return on success:[301]. Return on error:[301] (Redirect back to main page). Seems to be non-sequential. No login required to create shortened URLs. Example: http://slink.co/332b7<br />
|-<br />
| smallr.net || 2016-04-12<br />
| Likely sequential, Allows custom URLs, Must include trailing '/', Valid: 301 (Location correct), Invalid: 404, http://smallr.net/[a-z0-9]{1-4}/, ex.: http://smallr.net/5em/ (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| smarturl.it || 2016-06-10<br />
| smartURL -- smarturl.it, hyperurl.co - Allows creation, returns 'hyperurl.co' shortlinks, 6 character, [a-z0-9], **appears case insensitive**, allows custom code on hyperurl.co to all, custom on smarturl.it to "verified accounts". Can redirect to different links based on country and device (additional marketing options for "enterprise" accounts). Duplicate links get a new code. Responds to both GET and HEAD. Valid returns 301 with destination in Location header. Invalid returns 404. hyperurl.co/cxmdix hyperurl.co/le1lsr hyperurl.co/2br774 hyperurl.co/9cud4f<br />
|-<br />
| smurl.name || 2016-04-12<br />
| 60 seconds ads, Random, ex.: http://smurl.name/yMuzr (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| soa.li / soc.li || 2016-09-17<br />
| Gigya inc. ; may be dead, page says: "The remote name could not be resolved: 'li'"<br />
|-<br />
| soli.dm || 2015-12-16<br />
| Solid Media Group - Domain registered 2014-05-26, Google search shows 566 results as of 12-16-2015. Alphabet: A-Z a-z 0-9 (typically 5 characters long). Valid HTTP Code is 301, invalid is 404. Nonsequential shorturls, no public ability to create shorturls.<br />
|-<br />
| soo.gd || 2016-07-13<br />
| Seems alive; has alarming smiley face with thumbs up image. Is not incremental.<br />
|-<br />
| sp2.ro || 2016-04-12<br />
| Likely random, Valid: 301 (Location header correct), Invalid: 302, http://sp2.ro/[a-f0-9]{6}, ex.: http://sp2.ro/d05889 (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| surl.co.uk || 2016-09-17<br />
| Many shortening options.<br />
|-<br />
| surl.dk || 2018-05-20<br />
| Example: http://surl.dk/hbx/. Appears sequential using [a-z][0-9]. Returns 302 for all queries. Sets "Location:" to destinaion URL for valid short codes, and to "/" for invalid codes. Currently has 22413 URLs generated.<br />
|-<br />
| t1p.de / ogy.de / 0cn.de / kurzelinks.de || 2016-03-15<br />
| Alive as of 11:17, 2016-03-15 (EDT); http://t1p(dot)de/ggl, non-sequential, custom URLs possible; Valid returns HTTP 302 with Location set; Invalid returns HTTP 301 to error page with requested shortener URL in Location header<br />
|-<br />
| tgi.link || 2019-04-16<br />
| Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.<br />
|-<br />
| tinyarrows.com / ta.gd / ri.ms / ➡.ws / ➨.ws / ➯.ws / ➔.ws / ➞.ws / ➽.ws / ➹.ws / ✩.ws / ✿.ws / ❥.ws / ›.ws / ⌘.ws / ‽.ws / ☁.ws <br />
| 2019-04-02 <br />
| Seems dead as of 2019. Appears non-incremental: uses user-defined words for URLs (e.g. http://➡.ws/URLTEAM)<br />
|-<br />
| tiny.cc || 2015-12-12<br />
| Appears non-incremental (alive as of 18:21, 2015-12-12 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| tpl.ee || 2020-03-26<br />
| [https://framagit.org/fiat-tux/hat-softwares/lstu LSTU] Hosted and used by [[User:Jtagcat|Jtagcat]]. LSTU instances by default list all shortened urls at [https://tpl.ee/stats /stats] and give you a json file of all URLs at [https://tpl.ee/cookie /cookie]. Logging in as admin allows you to delete any shortened URLs.<br />
|-<br />
| to.ly || 2018-12-28<br />
| Gives 301 on success and 200 on error. May be protected by cloudflare <br />
|-<br />
| trib.al (alias: gizmo.do/clckhl.co ) || 2016-08-18<br />
| Does not appear to allow public creation of new short-URLs; owned by SocialFlow - examples: http://trib.al/600YOWx http://trib.al/TqoIUv3 http://trib.al/CeyQgiY http://trib.al/pYINp17 (appears to be random and [a-zA-Z0-9]{7}) Valid returns 301, invalid returns 404 (GET/HEAD)<br />
|-<br />
| twitthis.com || 2015-11-07<br />
| requires a Twitter account to create shortURLs (as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
| twiturl dot de || 2016-04-12<br />
| Custom urls only?, goes via two redirects, Valid: 302 (Location ends with '&loc=LINK', LINK is the original URL), Invalid: 302 (Location ends with '&loc=http://www dot twiturl.de'), ex.:http://twiturl dot de/gudet (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| trunc.it || 2015-12-12<br />
| closed, but still resolving existing URLs as of 17:43, 2015-12-12 (EST); http://trunc . it/pssga ; returns 301 for existing and non-existing shortcodes<br />
|-<br />
| tzd.me || 2016-10-31<br />
| Has an export function built for easy import: http://api.tzd.me/export.php?meta returns a JSON object with meta-information, and http://api.tzd.me/export.php?page=0 will export the list in BEACON format, with headers to indicate pagination status.<br />
|- <br />
| ujeb.se || 2018-07-12 <br />
| Appears non-incremental, can set a custom ID optionally. Always returns 301 as long as the ID is longer than 2 characters and isn't a static page link like <nowiki>http://ujeb.se/faq</nowiki>; if the ID is invalid, the Location header points to http://ujeb.se/. Examples: <nowiki>http://ujeb.se/L4nFx</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://ujeb.se/hj9gr</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://ujeb.se/archiveteam</nowiki><br />
|-<br />
| untiny.me || 2016-04-29<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| ushare.education || 2016-11-19<br />
| The resource-sharing website for Scottish educational resources (run in partnership with the Scottish Qualifications Authority). Not very active, or well known by students / teachers. Resources are shared by a URL, which is shortened. Resources also include a description and rating. All resources can be viewed through the "Search Resources" page, although this likely requires visiting all of the 101 pages in the search results. Each page holds roughly 10 results, so there is probably only around 1000 total URLs, with only a handful being added daily. URLs take the form: http://ushare.education/rsl/<ID>, with ID being an arbitrary non-user-definable string. However the URL shortener seems to have been poorly designed, and http://ushare.education/rsl/null is listed as a link to a resource, yet it does not work. Other links work, and it is currently unknown how many links suffer from this problem - perhaps there is only one. The links on the website are in fact full links to the original resources. This means that it is not necessary even to visit the links to determine their destination - simply parsing the href attribute of the link's tag will do.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| url.az || 2016-04-29<br />
| Pays for URLs shortened through it (presumably with ads, thereby likely more difficult to scrape) as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| url.ie || 2016-04-29<br />
| Returns 302 with URL in Location header for valid URLs. Returns 404 for invalid URLs. Sequential lowercase alphanumeric. Namespace has reached 4 characters. Alive as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| usite.hu/link.php || 2016-08-18<br />
| Numeric incremental, public database - [0-9]{1,5}, starts at 1 (see http://usite.hu/link.php?k=16000 for full list of links) ex: http://usite.hu/x/18084 http://usite.hu/x/18085 valid requests return 302 Redirect to target link, invalid requests return 302 to /link.php (GET/HEAD)<br />
|- <br />
| ux9.de || 2019-05-30 <br />
| Return on success:[200]. Return on error:[200] (Redirect to main page). Seems to be non-sequential. No Login required to create shortened URLs. Example: https://ux9.de/pEyL<br />
|-<br />
| vftr.co || 2019-04-16<br />
| Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.<br />
|-<br />
| vgn.am || 2016-09-18<br />
| Seems to be official shortener for Virgin Airlines; ex: vgn.am/6015BZvwd vgn.am/6189BHrg5 ; appears to be implemented by sprinklr.com based on the error page<br />
|-<br />
| vk.cc || 2015-11-07<br />
| no obvious way to create URLs from the home page (as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST))<br />
|-<br />
|vk-cc.com || 2017-06-25<br />
| (not the same as vk.cc) Russian url shortener for any url, not only from vk. You can shorten without registration Valid: "HTTP/1.1 200 OK", does not return Location. Invalid: "HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found". As of 2017-06-25 the homepage says the total number of shorten links are 12144.(Does this include password protected, or only the public ones?) Example: https://vk-cc.com/1txW I shortened 6 urls, resulted with 4 to 6 characters, 0-1A-Za-z, with similar/same characters next to each other (XX, 0O), able to start with numbers. Also able to create custom short urls (with the field with the A - placeholder="Свой адрес короткой ссылки" with maxlength="50" (!)) Potencial issue: on the default, not registered shortening setting it has a 5-second contdown (intermediate page) and a clickable link after the countdown. Solvable by view-source:https://vk-cc.com/1txW, link on the 151th line (always at the same place with the default settings). TODO: explore short url options (timer, password, multiple urls...) creation with registration.<br />
|-<br />
| vkvi.net || 2019-04-16<br />
| Based on the YOURLS software. Returns 301 on success and 302 on error. The 302 error redirects back to the home page.<br />
|-<br />
|vqr.mx || 2018-12-12<br />
| Returns 302 for successful and not successful. Allows creation of shorteners.<br />
|-<br />
|vurl.com || 2019-05-26<br />
| Returns 200 for success and error. You have to press a button to be redirected. Example: https://vurl.com/Vv83O<br />
|-<br />
| vzturl.com || 2016-02-10<br />
| example: http://vzturl.com/apa83 ; appears to allow public shortening, alive as of 01:10, 2016-02-10 (EST). Is incremental.<br />
|-<br />
| waa.ai || 2020-04-16<br />
| Requires a free account to shorten URLs. Both valid and invalid URLs return 302 with the destination in the Location header; invalid URLs redirect to an error page. There is the option to create custom and "unguessable" short URLs. URLs appear partially sequential but the sequence seems to jump around. Examples: https://waa.ai/Tr0R, https://waa.ai/Tr0N (regular), https://waa.ai/Tr0z/ddef60 (unguessable)<br />
|-<br />
| www1.to / www2.to / www3.to || 2018-10-30<br />
| Japanese URL shortener managed by SmarTrans. Actual responses vary on a case-by-case basis. http://www3.to/halu and http://www3.to/mugiyainfo give a status code of 200 with a meta tag indicating its destination. http://www3.to/rci will serve a 302. http://www1.to/maruten2 and http://www3.to/mocone serve actual web content and http://www2.to/sakuraike2000/ and http://www2.to/b-s/ serve a 200 with a message saying they expired <br />
|-<br />
| wapurl.co.uk || 2016-09-18<br />
| seems alive ; claims to be soon restricting their API to registered users<br />
|- <br />
| w.wiki || 2020-03-05<br />
| Alive as of 2020-03-05. Allows creation of new shortlinks to the following domains: <code>*.wikipedia.org</code>, <code>*.wiktionary.org</code>, <code>*.wikibooks.org</code>, <code>*.wikinews.org</code>, <code>*.wikiquote.org</code>, <code>*.wikisource.org</code>, <code>*.wikiversity.org</code>, <code>*.wikivoyage.org</code>, <code>*.wikimedia.org</code>, <code>*.wikidata.org</code>, and <code>*.mediawiki.org</code>. Appears sequential; I created https://w.wiki/JnJ and https://w.wiki/JnK. <code>curl -I</code> returns 301; destination in Location header. Invalid returns 404 with no location.<br />
|-<br />
| xar.ph || 2016-12-13<br />
| Bitly alias, no new entries since 2016-04.<br />
|-<br />
| xurl.es || 2016-05-15<br />
| seems alive as of 02:37, 2016-05-14 (EDT) - Allows creation of new shortlinks, currently 5 characters (lowercase + digits), appears to be random. http://xurl . es/7dnv0 Allows converting a shortlink into a custom link. Valid returns 302 with destination in Location header, invalid returns 302 with Location: http://xurl . es for both GET and HEAD. (as of 01:39, 2016-05-15 (EDT))<br />
|-<br />
| x.vu || 2016-09-05<br />
| seems alive, allows public shortening. Example: x.vu/vR8ptx<br />
|-<br />
| xxsURL.de || 2016-04-14<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| y0.hu || 2017-06-17<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| y2u.be || 2019-03-29 <br />
| meant for YouTube videos, simply redirects anything to the corresponding YouTube ID, i.e. http://www.y2u . be/7458qm becomes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7458qm (as such, not relevant to URLTeam)<br />
|-<br />
| yep.it || 2016-06-14<br />
| allows custom shortcodes; validates provided URL; example: http://yep . it/bgnhpu ; seems non-incremental, only lowercase letters; appears to make the whole database available via: http://yep . it/stat.php?page=5719 (as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST)); claims 36,383 URLs as of 00:58, 2016-06-15 (EDT)<br />
|-<br />
| yf-fam.co || 2019-04-04<br />
| Is alive.<br />
|-<br />
| zi.ma || 2019-03-29 <br />
| DNS didn't resolve at one point, but seems alive (although it's not totally clear it offers url shortening) as of 02:50, 2016-05-14 (EDT) Appears to combine multiple URLs into one short URL (see linkbun.ch)<br />
|-<br />
| сёр.рф || 2019-04-07<br />
| 0-9а-яА-Я-_ link deduplication, case sensitive, 200 on not found, 200 on found - redirect via JS location. link are random, user-specified links are min=9 in length<br />
|-<br />
| чоч.рф || 2019-04-07<br />
| 0-9а-яА-Я 3-chars sequential<br />
|- class="sortbottom"<br />
! Shortener<br />
! Last Checked on<br />
! Notes<br />
|}<br />
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==== "Official" shorteners ====<br />
This section lists shorteners specific for certain companies or services. Most of the time, these are limited to the relevant platforms, and it's often not possible to manually create shortlinks.<br />
<br />
* 4nn.cx - Anime News Network.<br />
* air.asia - AirAsia - Examples: <nowiki>https://air.asia/M9Y3s</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://air.asia/ffYWb</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://air.asia/mGKZu</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://air.asia/cbwA8</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://air.asia/MgLKu</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://air.asia/7oTK1</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://air.asia/1sW9b</nowiki><br />
* aka.ms - Internal shortener for [[Microsoft]] - There is a log in page at <nowiki>https://aka.ms</nowiki>, though only employee Microsoft accounts appear to be allowed access. - Examples: <nowiki>https://aka.ms/wsldocs</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://aka.ms/free</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://aka.ms/MIMWAL</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://aka.ms/MIMWAL/Releases</nowiki><br />
* ask.fm/a - ASKfm - Seems non-incremental; appears to no longer exist as of 2017-08-21 13:30 UTC, returning 404. - Example: <nowiki>http://ask.fm/a/40k05kgp</nowiki> -> <nowiki>http://ask.fm/Q7Niki/answer/42128504404</nowiki><br />
* bizj.us - Short Url for https://www.bizjournals.com/<br />
* bln.gs - [[Blingee]] - Examples: <nowiki>http://bln.gs/b/28fss0</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://bln.gs/b/1</nowiki><br />
* bsa.ly - private shortener for BuySellAds.com as of 15:05, 2016-01-02 (EST)<br />
* CokeURL.com - Coca-Cola - Examples: <nowiki>https://cokeurl.com/3yuz9</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://cokeurl.com/vs5s</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://cokeurl.com/theaterseat</nowiki><br />
* ctv.news - <nowiki> ctvnews.ca </nowiki><br />
* di.sn - Disney - Appears to have a few different schemes. Valid response = 301 to URL with "Location: " header. Invalid response: 301 to /error?url=theinvalidurlgoeshere in "Location: " header. No apparent public method to create URLs. - Examples: <nowiki>http://di.sn/rht</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://di.sn/6015ByMqD</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://di.sn/6006IwjY</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://di.sn/a05C</nowiki>.<br />
* disq.us - [[Disqus]]<br />
* eepurl.com - [[MailChimp]] - Allowed public shortening for a while; only allows use by MailChimp customers as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (EST).<br />
* fav.me - [[deviantART]] - Appears to be in heavy use on deviantART itself and on [[Twitter]] (probably elsewhere). Format is <code>d[a-z0-9]{1,6}</code> and represents the deviation's ID number in base 36. Seems to restrict by user-agent: using <code>user-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/50.0.2661.102 Safari/537.36</code> (GET and HEAD) provides a 301 redirect, destination in Location:, without 403 Forbidden. Invalid: 404 - Example: <nowiki>http://fav.me/d31sfml</nowiki><br />
* fb.me - [[Facebook]]<br />
* flic.kr - [[Flickr]]<br />
* fnd.us - [http://fundrazr.com Fundrazr.com]<br />
* g.co - Google (used for Google products and services)<br />
* getpocket.com/s/ - [[Pocket]]<br />
* ggbm.at - GeoGebra (www.geogebra.org)<br />
* git.io - [[GitHub]] only URLs - Public form at <nowiki>https://git.io/</nowiki>, only accepts github.com URLs. URLs appear to be sequential for some operations. Valid = 302, invalid = 404. - Examples: <nowiki>https://git.io/xYTU</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://git.io/vtrEf</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://git.io/bQ6v7Q</nowiki><br />
* go.code42.com - Internal shortener of Code42, the company behind CrashPlan. Redirects using JavaScript. - Examples: <nowiki>http://go.code42.com/o03zP00lB00oqO0uRUMbJM0</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://go.code42.com/CM700s0hM0GO0Pbt3i02U0i</nowiki><br />
* goo.gl - Google<br />
* gsfn.us - [https://getsatisfaction.com/ Get Satisfaction] - 0-9a-z, appears sequential, highest ID around <code>5????</code> as of 2017-10-08. Simply redirected to <nowiki>getsatisfaction.com</nowiki>, which does the actual redirect. - Examples: <nowiki>http://gsfn.us/t/2aoq7</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://gsfn.us/t/51hin</nowiki><br />
* gty.im - Getty Images - Links by editorial number - Example: <nowiki>http://gty.im/488068439</nowiki><br />
* gyo.tc - [[Megalodon.jp]] - Short URLs for archived pages, IDs appear sequential, most likely matching <code>[a-zA-Z0-9]+</code>, some IDs like <code>a</code> or <code>aa</code> appear to be missing, though. (<code>a0</code>, <code>b</code>, <code>ab</code>, <code>aA</code> or <code>aaa</code> work fine.) Always returns 302, but if the ID is invalid, the Location header starts with <code><nowiki>https://megalodon.jp/?url=http%3A%2F%2Frequested_id</nowiki></code> instead of <code><nowiki>https://megalodon.jp/[date]/[url]</nowiki></code>. Example: <nowiki>http://gyo.tc/1KMbs</nowiki><br />
* hrts.me - University of Hertfordshire. Short codes seem to match <code>[a-zA-Z0-9]{5}</code>. No HEAD support; 301 + Location header on success, 404 on error. Mainly used on https://twitter.com/UniofHerts - Example (2017-08-21 13:45 UTC): <nowiki>http://hrts.me/J2o9h</nowiki><br />
* hub.me - HubPages - Two types of short URLs, starting with either "a" (for "article"?) or "r" (for "replies"?). The shortcode afterwards is then a base62-encoded ID (0-9a-zA-Z). Highest IDs as of 2017-10-09 near the example links. - Examples: <nowiki>http://hub dot me/alvyn</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://hub dot me/r1cxN</nowiki><br />
* igg.me - Indiegogo - Most seem to use chosen names - Examples: <nowiki>http://igg.me/at/defendbitcoinmagazine</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://igg.me/at/1NaE6yoZIaY</nowiki><br />
* kas.pr - Kaspersky Lab - Requires login; 302 redirect/404 error on GET, does not support HEAD - Examples (2017-08-24): <nowiki>https://kas.pr/x4Hq</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kas.pr/Hga7</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kas.pr/A9Rp</nowiki><br />
* kku.world - Khon Kaen University - Examples: <nowiki>https://kku.world/uyyb1</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kku.world/sac2</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kku.world/p7d1c</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kku.world/pbpcd</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kku.world/knpm6</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kku.world/zlhum</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kku.world/ill</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kku.world/fm04</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kku.world/quotainterview63</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kku.world/payment</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://kku.world/sd-healthsci</nowiki><br />
</div><br />
</div><br />
* lnkd.in - [[LinkedIn]]<br />
* mfi.re - MediaFire<br />
* mir.cr - [https://www.mirrorcreator.com/ Mirror Creator]<br />
* msft.it - Microsoft (or maybe something called "Sprinklr"?)<br />
* mysp.ac - [[Myspace]]<br />
* off365.ms - Office 365<br />
* pixiv.me - [[Pixiv]] - Short URLs for user profiles, uses pixiv usernames, i.e. for a user named shapoco, the short URL is <nowiki>https://pixiv.me/shapoco</nowiki>. Returns 301 if the user exists, 404 otherwise.<br />
* pixiv.net - [[Pixiv]] - /i/:id for short image URLs (i.e. <nowiki>https://pixiv.net/i/69467027</nowiki>), /u/:id for short user URLs (i.e. <nowiki>https://pixiv.net/u/24431887</nowiki>). If the given ID isn't in the <code>[0-9]+</code> range, the redirect on <code><nowiki>https://www.pixiv.net/[type]/[id]</nowiki></code> returns 404, otherwise it returns 301. Invalid IDs still redirect fine as long as they're in the <code>[0-9]+</code> range; for user pages the resulting page is returned with 200 regardless of whether the user actually exists, for illustration pages the possible codes are 200/404/400 for valid/non-extant/invalid IDs, respectively. Example of 404: <nowiki>https://pixiv.net/i/2442</nowiki>, example of 400: <nowiki>https://pixiv.net/i/24422222222222</nowiki><br />
* pocket.co - [[Pocket]]<br />
* post.ly - [[Posterous]]<br />
* pptv36.tv, pptv36.news - PPTV HD 36, Thailand. - Examples (2019-05-07): <nowiki>http://pptv36.tv/rkG</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://pptv36.tv/vDo</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://pptv36.news/B4u</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://pptv36.news/BnG</nowiki><br />
* qr.ae - [[Quora]]<br />
* redd.it - [[Reddit]]<br />
* rsg.ms - Rockstar Games<br />
* skfb.ly - Sketchfab - Maps to <nowiki>https://sketchfab.com/s/CODE</nowiki>, which performs the actual redirect. Some very old links appear to use 9-char lower-case alphanumeric codes. In 2017-02, four-char codes of <code>[0-9a-zA-Z]</code> were exhausted, after which they apparently switched to five-char codes (same charset) starting around <code>6????</code>. - Examples: <nowiki>http://skfb.ly/mki3fe1d0</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://skfb.ly/GXzZ</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://skfb.ly/6nCrW</nowiki><br />
* t.co - [[Twitter]]<br />
* tdrt.io - Techdirt<br />
* tl.gd - [[TwitLonger]] - Maybe Sequential, site specific, maps directly to www.twitlonger.com - Examples (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT)):<nowiki>http://tl.gd/79aumf</nowiki> -> <nowiki>http://www.twitlonger.com/show/79aumf</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://tl.gd/n_1sn6j78</nowiki> -> <nowiki>http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sn6j78</nowiki><br />
* tmblr.co - [[Tumblr]] - HEAD and GET supported; 301 on success, 404 on error. The shortcodes are too long for terroroftinytown to handle. - Examples: <nowiki>https://tmblr.co/Z4fZpx1gfu_mU</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://tmblr.co/ZIKCSm1uGRMbv</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://tmblr.co/ZAvEqsfi4_rO</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://tmblr.co/Zqar4t1x8GPpN</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://tmblr.co/ZJ8Wby1L9QRac</nowiki><br />
* tmi.me - UberSocial - Message shortener (for Twitter) rather than URL shortener. Likely sequential. See first example link for some more info. - Examples (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT)): <nowiki>http://tmi.me/43vkS</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://tmi.me/1fdmrO</nowiki><br />
* tw.appstore.com - Apple App Store<br />
* uoft.me - University of Toronto<br />
* upl.nu - Ung Pirat (Youth Pirate Party, Sweden)<br />
* wh.gov - White House - Just expands wh.gov into www.whitehouse.gov (as of 20:53, 2015-12-05 (EST), verified 2017-08-21 14:00 UTC) - Example: <nowiki>https://wh.gov/i3lXR</nowiki><br />
* wp.me - [[Wordpress.com]] - HEAD; 301 on success, 404 on error. The shortcodes can have two different formats. - Examples: <nowiki>http://wp.me/f2B5</nowiki>, <nowiki>http://wp.me/sf2B5-shorten</nowiki>, <nowiki>https://wp.me/a92Te1-q</nowiki><br />
** The simple format encodes a blog's "siteID" in base62 (0-9a-zA-Z).<br />
** The more complex one is used for specific pages on a blog and matches <code>^https?://wp\.me/(?P<type>[sPpa])(?P<blogID>[0-9a-zA-Z]+)-(?P<identifier>.+)$</code>; the types stand for "slug", "page", "post", and "attachment", respectively. For "slug", the identifier is a custom-chosen name. "Page", "post", and "attachment" types map to the <code>page_id</code>, <code>p</code>, and <code>attachment_id</code> URL parameters, respectively (e.g. <nowiki>https://wp.me/Pf2B5-1</nowiki> -> <nowiki>http://en.blog.wordpress.com/?page_id=1</nowiki>), which then redirect to the relevant page or return a 404.<br />
* ya.cc - [[Yandex]], e.g. the code <nowiki>/ZZZE</nowiki><br />
* youtu.be - [[YouTube]]<br />
<br />
==== bit.ly aliases ====<br />
<br />
A bit.ly alias works just like a bit.ly URL. The shortcode is the same, it sets the same bit.ly cookie, and DNS resolving the address shows the IP addresses are the same as bit.ly. The homepage may be different however. (Bit.ly IPs (as of 2016-10-18): 67.199.248.{10,11,12,13} see support.bitly dot com/knowledgebase/articles/76741-how-do-i-set-up-a-custom-short-domain-) In rare occasions such as with puri.na the shortcodes will resolve different though the puri.na example is the only example from a realistic scraping point of view so far.<br />
<br />
* 0-60.in <br />
* 030mag.de<br />
* 1.azdhs.gov<br />
* 1.usa.gov - USA Government<br />
* 20ss.nyc<br />
* 360myte.ch - https://www.mytech360.com/<br />
* 4sq.com - Foursquare<br />
* 511t.ac <br />
* 6.wate.com<br />
* 7gee.se<br />
* 8legs.co - https://www.8legs.com/<br />
* 9l7gf7x5o9v.xyz - https://www.skysports.com/<br />
* abcn.ws - ABC News (examples: abcn.ws/1aOoijH ; abcn.ws/okiWbi )<br />
* accntu.re<br />
* actf.tv <br />
* adobe.ly<br />
* adweek.it - <br />
* aje.me - Aljazeera<br />
* amzn.to - [[Amazon]]<br />
* apple.co<br />
* arcg.is<br />
* arfo.sk<br />
* atfp.co - Foreign Policy<br />
* audi.us<br />
* autism.link<br />
* azc.cc<br />
* bbc.in - BBC<br />
* bbybgrl.com<br />
* beta.works<br />
* binged.it - Bing (bonus points for being longer than bing.com)<br />
* bitly.com<br />
* bitly.is<br />
* bitlymail.com<br />
* blizz.ly - Blizzard, some matches up (the generated ones), but there are a few which differ from their bit.ly/ counterpart, the direct (with meaningful words) like http://blizz.ly/BuyOverwatch (Has Shortcodes different to standard bit.ly)<br />
* bloom.bg - Bloomberg<br />
* bravo.ly<br />
* bzfd.it - Buzzfeed<br />
* canva.link<br />
* carrot.cr - Carrot Creative<br />
* cb.com - Career Builder<br />
* chfstps.co &ndash; [https://www.chefsteps.com/ ChefSteps] - last accessed on 2019-07-18 - 22:20 UTC <!-- Based on https://transfer.notkiska.pw/fFctN/facebook-@Chefsteps and https://transfer.notkiska.pw/3EBR2/twitter-@ChefSteps --><br />
* chzb.gr - Cheezeburger<br />
* comca.st<br />
* cnet.co - CNET<br />
* cnnmon.ie - CNN Money<br />
* conta.cc - Constant Contact Inc.<br />
* corb.is - Corbis Images<br />
* cot.ag<br />
* crks.me - as of 03:05, 2016-08-19 (EDT)<br />
* curbed.cc - Curbed.com<br />
* d-mk.co<br />
* don8blood.com (Has Shortcodes different to standard bit.ly)<br />
* econ.st - The Economist<br />
* emarketee.rs - Emarketeers<br />
* engri.sh - Engrish.com<br />
* eonli.ne - E! Online<br />
* es.pn - ESPN<br />
* feedly.com/k/ - redirect, see below for their own<br />
* fltsim.me<br />
* fxn.ws - Fox News (Examples: fxn.ws/18KBPhy, fxn.ws/1MqIqKs, fxn.ws/1jAAK0M) - Valid response: 301 with URL in Location: header. Invalid response: 302 with www.foxnews.com in Location: header. Space appears to be too large to search.<br />
* got.cr - Crunchyroll<br />
* gph.is - giphy.com gives 301 on Successful Redirect to Gif. Gives 302 on Bad short url and redirects to Giphy.com. Currently gives a 7 character alphanumeric shortcode. Unsure if 6 character or less was used.<br />
* grd.to - The Grid TO<br />
* hrkey.co<br />
* hub.am - HubSpot<br />
* huff.to - Huffington Post<br />
* idle-empi.re<br />
* ift.tt - [[IFTTT]]<br />
* IMDB.to<br />
* j.mp - bit.ly<ref>http://blog.bitly.com/post/179664996/go-ahead-and-j-mp</ref><br />
* jrnl.to - thejournal.ie<br />
* kck.st - Kickstarter<br />
* kore.us<br />
* krg.bz<br />
* lat.ms - Los Angeles Times<br />
* laurc.ro<br />
* lego.build<br />
* lemde.fr -- alive as of 01:10, 2016-02-10 (EST)<br />
* lft.to - Lyft<br />
* m.ttmask.com <br />
* marsdd.it - MaRS Discovery District<br />
* mbist.ro - MediaBistro<br />
* mojo.ly - Mother Jones<br />
* mttr.io <br />
* nydn.us - New York Daily News<br />
* nyti.ms - The New York Times<br />
* oculta.bit.ly<br />
* on.fb.me - Facebook<br />
* on.natgeo.com<br />
* on.rare.us - Rare (rare.us)<br />
* on.si.com<br />
* https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=URLTeam&type=revision&diff=39419&oldid=39286<br />
* qr.cm<br />
* reut.rs - Reuters<br />
* sdut.us - The San Diego Union-Tribune<br />
* snd.sc - Soundcloud<br />
* spoti.fi - [http://spotify.com Spotify] (Has Shortcodes different to standard bit.ly)<br />
* stanford.io - Stanford University (Has Shortcodes different to standard bit.ly)<br />
* stnfy.com<br />
* Tcrn.ch - Tech Crunch <br />
* theatln.tc - The Atlantic<br />
* ti.me - Time Magazine<br />
* usat.ly - USA TODAY <!-- Couldnt find different ShortCodes --><br />
* vstphl.ly - Visit Philly (Has Shortcodes different to standard bit.ly)<br />
* wapo.st - Washington Post (ex: http://wapo.st/2bhQGBv ) alive as of 01:11, 2016-10-14 (EDT) (Has Shortcodes different to standard bit.ly)<br />
* wgrd.tech<br />
* whrt.it - We Heart It (weheartit.com); shortener domain does not resolve as of 2017-09-08 00:25 UTC, but the main site is still online<br />
* wttw.me<br />
* www.bitly.com <br />
* yhoo.it <br />
* zmb.me<br />
<br />
==== B.link aliases ====<br />
* visit.news<br />
<br />
=== Dead or Broken ===<br />
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(please keep list alphabetized)<br />
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* 1click.im - 404 as of 2019-04-18<br />
* 1dl.us - Displays a static image of Element 120 Unobtanium<br />
* 1drv.ms - 404 as of 2018-12-31<br />
* 1link.in - Website dead<br />
* 1url.com - redirects to http://www.weirdlyodd.com/ as of 2019-04-19<br />
* 1y.lt - For Sale as of 2018-12-27<br />
* 2big.at - Redirects to http://www.2big.at/ which is now a shoe shop as of 2019-04-19<br />
* 2su.de - domain for sale as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* 2tag.nl - generated QR codes for the short URLs for use on social media; domain sold sometime between 2016-06-19 and 2016-08-02; old links broken as of 2017-08-21<br />
* 4ks.net - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT) <!-- All Results gone from Google --><br />
* 4ms.me - redirects to twoo.com as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* 4zip.in - For sale as of 21:05, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* 6url.com - HTML redirect, Error 500 ; Windows IIS blank page as of 02:13, 2015-12-26 (EST)<br />
* 7rz.de -- "Under Construction" page as of 02:13, 2015-12-26 (EST)<br />
* 7vd.cn -- Server not responding as of 04:04, 2016-01-01 (EST) ; was Baidu Short URL service. Example: http://7vd.cn/rjtS<br />
* 41z.com &ndash; Unrelated website as of 2019-05-29 - 04:40 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/4iLm7io1e-I --><br />
* 301.to - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* 301url.com - DNS_PROBE_FINISHED_NXDOMAIN as of 2019-04-18 <!-- All Results gone from Google --><br />
* 307.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST) <!-- All Results gone from Google --><br />
<br />
* a.gd - redirects to eg.gg which is a (somewhat entertaining) parking page as of 02:13, 2015-12-26 (EST)<br />
* a.nF - seems to allow public shortening; has list of recent short URLs, and totals (9279 total); appears alive as 02:12, 2015-12-26 (EST) ; server not responding as of 23:38, 2016-02-26 (EST)<br />
* a2n.eu - For Sale as of 2018-12-28<br />
* aa.cx - Redirects to a non-English VPS site as of 00:58, 2016-06-15 (EDT)<br />
* abcurl.net - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* abra.me - server down as of 21:52, 2015-11-21 (EST)<br />
* ad.ag - White screen as of 2018-12-31<br />
* ad.vu - mirror of adjix.com, application not found; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* ad4.us - For sale as of 21:05, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* adcraft.co - parking page as of 19:43, 2016-01-09 (EST)<br />
* adcrun.ch - parking page as of 18:06, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* adfro.gs - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* adlock.in - Redirect Garbage as of 2019-01-04<br />
* adnld.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* adshor.tk - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* adspl.us - parking page as of 21:05, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* adzip.us - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* afx.cc - Just the letters "afx" in a giant, bright green font as of 02:13, 2015-12-26 (EST)<br />
* aka.gr -- "This account has been suspended" as of 03:57, 2016-01-01 (EST) It was a Greek url shortener, written by Konstantinos Botonakis, with sponsored ads. Ex: http://aka.gr/bit<br />
* ar.gy - GitHub holding page as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (EST)<br />
* arm.in - domain for sale as of 21:44, 2015-11-21 (EST)<br />
* arst.ch - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* articleshrine.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* asso.in - seems dead (parking page?) as of 2017-08-21 21:20 UTC<br />
* aurls.info - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* azqq.com - For Sale as of 2019-04-05<br />
* b2l.me - For Sale as of 2018-12-28<br />
* b65.us - For Sale as of 2019-01-02<br />
* bacn.me<br />
* bcool.bz - ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT as of 2018-12-28<br />
* bdu.me - For sale as of 2018-12-31<br />
* be.vc<br />
* biglnk.com - dead, replaced with unrelated blog<br />
* biturl.in - ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED as of 2018-12-29<br />
* biturl.net - for sale as of 01:01, 2016-06-06 (EDT)<br />
* bizz.cc - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* bloat.me - parking page as of 15:05, 2016-01-02 (EST)<br />
* Buk.me - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* buraga.org - seems to be a social network, not a url shortener as of 01:01, 2016-06-06 (EDT)<br />
* bwtm.co - DNS fails to resolve.<br />
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* calyp.co - Server error. 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.<br />
* canurl.com - Website dead<br />
* catchylink.com - Advertising a mutual fund as of 01:31, 2015-12-13 (EST)<br />
* catchyurl.co<br />
* cf.ly (CashFly.com) -- redirects to happydaydeals4you.com as of 02:04, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* chod.sk - Appears non-incremental, not resolving<br />
* cl.lk - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* cli.gs - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST); Appears non-incremental<br />
* cliccami.info - Apache default page as of 15:33, 2016-01-02 (EST)<br />
* clk.my - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* clop.in -- domain parked as of 21:52, 2015-11-21 (EST)<br />
* coge.la -- just a logo as of 22:00, 2015-11-21 (EST)<br />
* come.to - ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130126170221/http://come.to/ wayback of homepage]) Related to various .to shorteners. Started in 1997, killed in 2013 after [https://web.archive.org/web/20110820081653/http://www.myphotoalbum.com/ parent company] died.<br />
* Crum.pl - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* cu.tl - Called "Cut Link". Probably owned by the same people as shrink.im, based on the reused graphics / design; does not resolve as of 2019-04-02<br />
* curio.us - ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED as of 2019-01-06<br />
* cut.io &ndash; Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:29 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/F8jD7v_A82w --><br />
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* da.co - Parked as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (EST)<br />
* dag.gy - Used to be a bit.ly alias; parking page as of 2018-12-13, 16:55 UTC.<br />
* dai3.net - Offers a URL shorting service, but it doesn't seem to work; unclear if existing links work; as of 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT) <br />
* dfl.me - For sale as of 03:09, 2016-08-19 (EDT)<br />
* dfl8.me - For sale as of 2018-12-30 previously had an archive of created URLs apparently<br />
* dft.ba - Server gone as of 01:11, 2015-11-17 (EST) ; site had [https://web.archive.org/web/20150912133115/http://dft.ba/ shutdown message] (claiming links would continue to work), from 2015-07 through 2015-09. "Don't forget to be awesome - custom shortened name", by DFTBA Records. Examples: http://dft.ba/-aWOr ; http://dft.ba/-bitdo ; http://dft.ba/-urlshortener<br />
* digg.com - discontinued - [http://about.digg.com/blog/update-diggs-short-url-service]<br />
* do.my - Blank page as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (EST)<br />
* dollarfalls.info - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* domainonair.com - appears to just offer DNS services as of 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT)<br />
* dopen.us - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* dropmylinks.com - For Sale as of 2018-12-27<br />
* dwarfurl.com - Numeric, appears incremental: http://dwarfurl.com/08041 ; domain for sale as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (EST)<br />
<br />
* easy.tc - DNS not resolving.<br />
* easyuri.com - Appears hex incremental with last digit random/checksum: http://easyuri.com/1339f , http://easyuri.com/133a3 ; blank page as of 01:35, 2016-02-10 (EST); doesn't respond as of 23:34, 2016-09-18 (EDT)<br />
* eqent.me - Improper redirect to bitly.<br />
* esyURL.com - Russian error page saying the site is temporarily suspended as of 23:34, 2016-09-18 (EDT)<br />
* evrsh.in - evrsh.in’s server IP address could not be found. as of 2019-04-15<br />
* eweri.com - doesn't respond as of 23:34, 2016-09-18 (EDT)<br />
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* fa.by - Shut down on Apr 8, 2012 (according to [https://web.archive.org/web/20120407161749/fa.by/? Wayback]). Last checked 01:22, 2016-02-17 (EST)<br />
* feedzil.la - Domain parked; server doesn't respond as of 01:22, 2016-02-17 (EST)<br />
* fff.to - Parking page as of 01:22, 2016-02-17 (EST)<br />
* fire.to - Server doesn't respond as of 01:22, 2016-02-17 (EST)<br />
* flpbd.it - Flipboard -- Appears down as of 02:45, 2016-05-19 (EDT)<br />
* fly2.ws - Empty page as of 01:22, 2016-02-17 (EST)<br />
* fon.gs - server down as of 22:00, 2015-11-21 (EST); DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* freak.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* fuseurl.com - Account Suspended as of 00:29, 2016-10-06 (EDT)<br />
* fuzzy.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* fwd4.me - redirects to a site about traffic cameras as of 22:00, 2015-11-21 (EST)<br />
* fwib.net - parking page as of 01:22, 2016-02-17 (EST)<br />
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* g.ro.lt - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* gca.sh - Dead website, broken links as of 2017-08-17 (CEST). According to archive.org: it was working on 2016-04-26, but not on 2016-10-01. Owned by GCash.com, which has a working website at the moment.<br />
* gl.am - Empty as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)<br />
* go.to - sold its domains on Sedo apparently.<br />
* go2.me - everything 404s<br />
* go2.vg &ndash; Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:41 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/5e5sEzLp2MI --><br />
* go2cut.com - Website dead<br />
* gob.li - Golbin Ridge Limited. Timed out<br />
* gonext.org - not resolving<br />
* goshrink.com - not resolving as of 02:13, 2016-12-04 (EST)<br />
* gurl.es - Server not responding as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)<br />
* gx.si<br />
* gyar.eu - Server gone as of 01:07, 2015-11-17 (EST) (examples: http://gyar.eu/c8 ; http:// gyar.eu/agB)<br />
<br />
* hao.jp - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* hashonomy.com - Timed out<br />
* hex.io - Gandi parking page as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)<br />
* hj.to -- server requests HTTP Basic auth as of 22:05, 2015-11-21 (EST)<br />
* hmm.li -- "dead for some time" and likely unrelated to hmm.ph according to hmmm_ on IRC as of 2017-08-14 20:40 UTC<br />
* hmm.ph -- Domain for sale as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)<br />
* ho.io &ndash; 500 as of 2019-05-29 - 04:27 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/bdzxJsx5wC8 --><br />
* hop.im -- a personal homepage as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)<br />
* href.hu<br />
* href.in - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* hsblinks.com - app login page as of 02:13, 2016-12-04 (EST)<br />
* htcdev.net - DNS not resolving.<br />
* http://swyze.com/ - swyze.com’s server IP address could not be found. 2019-04-15<br />
* http://tinylord.com/ - tinylord.com’s server IP address could not be found. 2019-04-15<br />
* http://www.pqn.pw/en - www.pqn.pw’s server IP address could not be found as of 2019-04-15<br />
* htxt.it - redirects to spam as of 02:13, 2016-12-04 (EST)<br />
* Hurl.it - does not seem to be a shortener as of 02:13, 2016-12-04 (EST)<br />
* hurl.me - doesn't resolve as of 02:13, 2016-12-04 (EST)<br />
* hurl.no - Shut down sometime between [https://web.archive.org/web/20110305152644/http://hurl.no/hurl.asp 2011-03-05] and [https://web.archive.org/web/20110529121656/http://hurl.no/hurl.asp 2011-05-29] due to an influx of spam. As of 02:24, 2015-12-03 (EST), the domain appears to be owned by someone else.<br />
* hurl.ws - spam blog as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
<br />
* iawtp.me - DNS not resolving<br />
* icanhaz.com - Contains a "closed as of June 2010" message as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)<br />
* icymi.me - DNS not resolving<br />
* idek dot net DNS not resolving as of 00:04, 2016-10-06 (EDT) ; seemed alive, allowed public shortening as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT) ; idek dot net/CDN, idek dot net/CND ; alphabet: asdASD123 ; 600 ghits ; 3, some 4 char length; existing: 301 - location ; not existing: http://new.idek dot net/SHORTCODE ; new.idek.net broken, can't create new links. seems incremental<br />
* ik.my - Domain for sale as of 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT)<br />
* iKr.me - Asian-script spam site as of 02:24, 2015-12-03 (EST)<br />
* ilix.in - domain parked<br />
* imfy.us - requires a recaptcha to get to the linked site, and avast goes nuts. DNS fails to resolve.<br />
* imtiny.com &ndash; Redirects to unreleated website as of 2019-05-29 - 04:49 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/oL-3UzbEGe0 --><br />
* infovak.com - redirects to some marketing site as of 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT)<br />
* inspr.in - Inspired Beta. Can't find server<br />
* ir.pe - server times out as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* irt.me - DNS not resolving as of 02:24, 2015-12-03 (EST)<br />
* its.my - Just an advert as of 04:07, 2016-01-01 (EST)<br />
* itz.bz - domain parked as of 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT)<br />
* ix.it - Not resolving<br />
* ix.lt - website about a "Music Without Walls" project (?) as of 02:13, 2016-12-04 (EST)<br />
<br />
* j2j.de - empty blog as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* jijr.com - Doesn't appear to be a shortener, now parked as of 04:07, 2016-01-01 (EST)<br />
* joomlagyar.hu/usb - DNS not resolving<br />
* jump.to - dead as of 2013-02-01<br />
* just.as - dead as of 2019-04<br />
<br />
* k.vu - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* kaaf.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* keTKP.in - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* kisa.ch - Domain for sale as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT)<br />
* kissa.be - "Kissa.be url shortener service is shutdown"<br />
* kl.am - "kl.am Closes its Shell" (server not available as of 15:48, 2016-03-13 (EDT))<br />
* kly.so - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* Kots.Nu - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* krunchd.com - redirects to a real estate site as of 00:58, 2016-06-15 (EDT)<br />
* krz.ch - redirects to idealizer.ch (SEO company) as of 02:24, 2015-12-03 (EST)<br />
* kuijt.nu - replaced with unrelated site<br />
* kurl.us - Parked.<br />
<br />
* l.gg - server not responding as of 01:31, 2015-12-13 (EST)<br />
* l.pr - LinksPreadeR ({{url|http://techcrunch.com/2009/07/09/new-url-shortener-is-kind-of-cool-kind-of-defeats-the-point/|review from TechCrunch}}) - DNS not resolving as of 01:09, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* l1nks.org - redirects to Asian porn site as of 01:46, 2016-07-14 (EDT)<br />
* liltext.com - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* lingid.eu - Dead as of 2020-03-26 13:15 (EET). It redirected to lingid.ee what allowed to shorten URLs for this domain. The domain is registered, but does not resolve any more. Was hosted and managed by [https://www.virtuaal.com/ Virtuaal OÜ]<br />
* linkee.com - shut down with a notice on 2014-07-23<br />
* liurl.cn - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* lk.to<br />
* lmo.ee - Dead as of 2020-03-26 13:15 (EET). It redirected to lingid.ee what allowed to shorten URLs for this domain. The domain expired and is now available again. Was hosted and managed by [https://www.virtuaal.com/ Virtuaal OÜ]<br />
* ln-s.net - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* ln-s dot ru - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* LNK.by - Cyrillic domain parking page as of 01:09, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* lnk.gd - "This account has been suspended. Either the domain has been overused, or the reseller ran out of resources." as of 17:51, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* lnk.ly - DNS not resolving as of 01:09, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* lnk.ms - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* lnk.nu - parking page as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)<br />
* lnkurl.com - Website empty as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT)<br />
* lru.jp - Just shows a login form as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT)<br />
* lst.bz - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* lu.mu - Appears to no longer be a URL shortening service 2018-12-31<br />
* lurl.no - Server doesn't respond as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT)<br />
* m112.hu - Link creation (and website) appears to be broken as of 22:28, 2016-05-28 (EDT)<br />
* mangk.us - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* marv.ly - DNS fails to resolve.<br />
* mash.to - Cannot connect ; Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* me.lt - Connection refused.<br />
* me2.hu - DNS error as of 22:28, 2016-05-28 (EDT)<br />
* memurl.com - Pronounceable. Broken.<br />
* mens.hm - Not responding (timeout)<br />
* micURL.com - parking page as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)<br />
* miklos.dk - Doesn't appear guessable: http://miklos.dk/!z7bA6a - "Vi arbejder på sagen..."<br />
* min2.me - now a CDN called bit2me (?) as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)<br />
* mindless.co<br />
* minilien.com - Doesn't appear guessable: http://minilien.com/?9nyvwnA0gh - Website dead<br />
* minilink.org - parking page as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)<br />
* minim.in - Times out<br />
* miniurl.com - Just an ad page as of 00:53, 2016-03-14 (EDT)<br />
* miniurl.hu - Times out as of 22:28, 2016-05-28 (EDT)<br />
* minurl.org - Presently in ERROR 404<br />
* minyurl.net &ndash; Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:25 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/fAXITBpzar8 --><br />
* mke.me - Service Temporarily Unavailable as of 00:58, 2016-06-15 (EDT)<br />
* mmmm.ee - Dead as of 2020-03-26 13:15 (EET). It redirected to lingid.ee what allowed to shorten URLs for this domain. The domain is registered, but does not resolve. Was hosted and managed by [https://www.virtuaal.com/ Virtuaal OÜ]<br />
* ms.me - Parked.<br />
* msplinks.com - Used by Myspace[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Myspace#Security]<br />
* mtw.tl - everything 403s<br />
* muhlink.com - Not resolving<br />
* my7b.com &ndash; Server IP address could not be found as of 2019-05-29 - 04:47 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/gC1jRTIeR7o --><br />
* myloc.me - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* MySp.in - parking page as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)<br />
* mytinyurl.com - redirects to an unrelated image<br />
* mytinyurl.net &ndash; Redirects to unrelated website as of 2019-05-29 - 04:49 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/70I4-KGa_r4 --><br />
* MyURL.in - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* myurl.us - cpanel frontend<br />
* myurlz.com &ndash; Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:26 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/XPzMNhZZYHI --><br />
* myv.bz - Not resolving<br />
<br />
* ndurl.com - redirects to site offering "Minecraft for Free" as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)<br />
* news.me - no obvious way to create URLs from the home page as of 20:08, 2015-11-07 (EST); domain doesn't resolve as of 04:52, 2016-04-06 (UTC)<br />
* nm.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* nn.nf - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* not.my - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* nsyed.com - Just contains a short equation as of 02:00, 2016-07-14 (EDT)<br />
* nxy.in - Just displays "HNY 2016!" as of 15:00, 2016-03-20 (EDT)<br />
* nyturl.com - NY Times (bonus points for being longer than nyt.com, which they own). Taken by squatters<br />
<br />
* o-x.fr - Non-loading adverts as of 01:11, 2016-04-03 (EDT)<br />
* oc1.us - parking page as of 17:51, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* om.ly - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* omf.gd - DNS not responding as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST) ; Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* omoikane.net - ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT as of 2019-01-02<br />
* onvzi.com - DNS fails to resolve.<br />
* ooqx.com - domain for sale as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* ooze.us - domain for sale as of 02:00, 2016-07-14 (EDT)<br />
* orz.se - domain registrar as of 01:11, 2016-04-03 (EDT)<br />
* otf.me - Empty WordPress site<br />
<br />
* para.pt - parking page as of 01:31, 2015-12-13 (EST)<br />
* Pendek.in - parking page as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)<br />
* Pic.gd - appears to be an image sharing site as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)<br />
* Piko.me - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* ping.fm - Fails to resolve.<br />
* PiURL.com - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* pli.gs - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* pln.so - Not working.<br />
* Plo.cc - parking page as of 01:53, 2015-12-09 (EST)<br />
* plzretwt.me - Fails to resolve.<br />
* pnut.co - see nutshellurl.com <strike>Ex: http://pnut.co/3a (returns 200 on a HEAD request; will need to use GET requests)</strike> -- Connection times out (nutshellurl.com still working, see Alive) as of 03:45, 2016-06-10 (EDT)<br />
* pops.ci - pops.ci/Q0dFvW ; all 6 Character ; uppercase, lowercase & digits ; ~2500 Results(according to google) ; existing: 301, Location: ; not existing: 404, 302(redirs to popsci main page); DNS doesn't resolve as of 00:27, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* pp.gg - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* pt2.me - default server page as of 02:09, 2015-12-09 (EST)<br />
* Puke.It - parking page as of 02:09, 2015-12-09 (EST)<br />
* pulsene.ws - Expired. Parked by GoDaddy.<br />
<br />
* qlnk.net - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* qte.me - rediects to mcdev.com which times out as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* qu.tc - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* qurlyq.com - Javascript redirect. Appears sequential: http://qurlyq.com/5nf. Domain parked.<br />
* qux.in - Parking page as of 01:04, 2015-12-10 (EST)<br />
* r.im - page is blank (but contains title) as of 01:04, 2015-12-10 (EST)<br />
* rb6.me - redirects to "coming soon" page as of 17:51, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* RDE.me - GoDaddy parking page as of 01:04, 2015-12-10 (EST)<br />
* re.ad - Fails to resolve.<br />
<br />
* readthis.ca - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* reallytinyurl.com - A non-English blog of some kind as of 15:00, 2016-03-20 (EDT)<br />
* redir.ec - 403 Forbidden as of 17:51, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* redirx.com - Lowercase alpha only, appears sequential or guessable - Ex: http://redirx.com/?wyok. Website still online but does not resolve existing URLs nor does it allow creating new ones (responds with the message: ''blame the spammers'')<br />
* reducelnk.com - redirects to a web directory as of 03:08, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* rehttp.com &ndash; Redirects to unrelated website after a long time waiting as of 2019-05-29 - 04:46 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/FPiriz7jMy8 --><br />
* retwt.me - Server fails to respond as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* rickroll.it - page with just ads as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* riz.gd - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* RT.nu - parking page as of 01:11, 2016-04-03 (EDT)<br />
* RubyURL.com - DNS not responding as of 02:24, 2015-12-12 (EST) ; Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* rurl.org - Service Temporarily Unavailable as of 00:58, 2016-06-15 (EDT)<br />
* rww.tw - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
<br />
* s.me - Domain parked.<br />
* s3nt.com - Probably sequential. http://s3nt.com/aa goes somewhere different from /ab . Domain parked.<br />
* s4c.in - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* Sai.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* sameurl.com - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* say.ly - redirects to unrelated site<br />
* scriptzon.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* scrnch.me - DNS not responding as of 01:15, 2016-01-29 (EST)<br />
* sdai.ly - Allows custom shorturl -- DNS does not resolve as of 03:45, 2016-06-10 (EDT)<br />
* sdut.us - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* see.sc - Fails to resolve.<br />
* sfu.ca - server times out as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* Short.ie - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* short.nr - DNS not responding as of 01:31, 2015-12-13 (EST)<br />
* short.to - Domain is parked - Probably sequential/loweralpha: http://short.to/msmp ; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* Short.Url - DNS not responding as of 01:26, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* shortlinks.co.uk - Working again. Maybe not. ; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* shortme.info &ndash; "Origin DNS error" from Cloudflare as of 2019-05-29 - 04:43 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/Z7HG0RDelzs --><br />
* shortxlink.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* shout.to - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* show.my - Likely dead (Folder listing) (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* shr.tn - 403 from CloudFlare as of 02:00, 2016-07-14 (EDT)<br />
* shrinkify.com - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* shrinklink.co.uk - Doesn't appear sequential: http://www.shrinklink.co.uk/45bmx , www.shrinklink.co.uk/npk6xp . Domain parked.<br />
* shrinkr.com - formerly did link shortening has now been bought by another company that does something else (2018-12-27)<br />
* shrinkurl.us -- <strike>Still resolves, but does not allow creating new URLs ("The URL you entered was not valid or did not exist.")</strike> - Connection refused as of 03:45, 2016-06-10 (EDT)<br />
* shrt.st - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* shrt.ws - personal homepage as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* shrtb.us &ndash; Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:34 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/RIXM59G37mo --><br />
* shrten.com - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* Shrtn.com - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* shrtn.us - myshorturls.appspot.com. 404, does not resolve<br />
* Shw.me - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* simurl.com - Doesn't appear guessable - Ex: http://simurl.com/panpes. Website is blank; does not resolve URLs ("This SimURL is now inactive") ; parking page as of 17:51, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* siteo.us - returns "521 Origin Down" as of 17:51, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* sitereview.me - page with no visible content as of 02:00, 2016-07-14 (EDT)<br />
* sk.gy - under construction as of 02:00, 2016-07-14 (EDT)<br />
* sl.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* slki dot ru - Not a shortener, not sure if it integrates one. (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* smallr.com - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* smallurl.in &ndash; Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:27 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/cIxiWm4DBXc --><br />
* smf.is - DNS not resolving.<br />
* smfu.in - Currently not working, site exists. (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* smsh.me - Dead: Cannot connect to database. (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* snipie.com - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* snipurl.com - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* snpurl.biz - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* sns.mx - SNS Analytics, domain parked<br />
* snurl.com - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* socialcampaign.com - Times out as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* song.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* spedr.com - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* sq.com - Now redirects to Singapore Airlines.<br />
* srnk.net - redirects to tiny-url.info as of 02:37, 2016-05-14 (EDT)<br />
* srs.li - Not a shortener (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* starturl.com &ndash; Suspended as of 2019-05-29 - 04:42 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/KU6BONnDQ1Y --><br />
* su.pr - [[StumbleUpon]] Died presumably when StumbleUpon did. Not responsive as of 2019-04-12<br />
* surl.hu – [http://web.archive.org/web/20140716052816/http://surl.hu/ Last contact] on 2014-07-16, nearly 2M sURLs gone. Domain taken but idle now ; DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* SwU.me - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
<br />
* tcp3.com &ndash; Unrelated website as of 2019-05-29 - 04:39 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/61JDWTWuZ1U --><br />
* tgr.me - Dead (403) (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* theminiurl.com - DNS not responding as of 15:48, 2016-05-15 (EDT)<br />
* TimesURL.at - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* tin.bz &ndash; Redirects to unrelated website as of 2019-05-29 - 04:34 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/HYYEIU4T-U4 --><br />
* tini.us - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* tiniuri.com - Account suspended as of 00:58, 2016-06-15 (EDT)<br />
* tiny.ly - was alive as of 2016-01-01, timing out as of 2020-06-15 14:00 UTC, probably died in late February 2016 per [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://tiny.ly/* Wayback Machine]<br />
* TinyPl.us - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* tinyuri.ca - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* tllg.net - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* tm.to - Twtmore has "flown away"<br />
* tmsurl.com &dash; Server IP address could not be found as of 2019-05-29 - 04:31 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/bG1e-RBsLJ0 --><br />
* tnij.org - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* to.gg - Global Giving, everything 503s<br />
* to.je - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* to.vg - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* totesz.hu/x - Does not resolve as of 02:53, 2016-08-19 (EDT)<br />
* tpal.us &ndash; Server IP address could not be found as of 2019-05-29 - 04:37 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/9m4ZAx7Yr5U --><br />
* tpm.ly - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* traceurl.com - DNS fails to resolve.<br />
* trumpink.lt - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* tsort.us - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* turl.no - Database error: "Incorrect DB config, or could not connect to DB" (2019-04-16 20:39 UTC)<br />
* tw6.us - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* tweet.me - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* tweetburner.com / twurl.nl - Appears incremental, everything 404s<br />
* tweez.me - redirects to vurl.com (which 404s) as of 04:04, 2016-01-01 (EST) ; was described as a "Free Premium URL Shortening Service"<br />
* Twip.us - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* twitpwr.com - Domain parked.<br />
* twitt.hu<br />
* twitterurl.net - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* twitterurl.org - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* twixar.com - "Estamos fora do ar por algum tempo, mas estamos trabalhando para voltar a oferecer o serviço para encurtar URLs longa em breve!"<br />
* twthpr.co - DNS not resolving.<br />
* twtr.us - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* twurl.cc - Dead (21:46, 2016-04-12 (EDT))<br />
* twurl.nl - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
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* u.bb - No DNS as of 01:15, 2016-01-29 (EST)<br />
* u.mavrev.com - Stopped accepting new urls. Now times out. Shows a shared webhosting notice as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* u.nu - "The shortest URLs. period." Website dead since at least 2010-10-01 (http://web.archive.org/web/20100104023208/http://u.nu/) ; Now it is "an East-West informed pan-cultural wellness community based in NYC" as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* u76.org - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* ub0.cc - redirects to software site http://www.shareitforpca.com/ as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* uiop.me - just lists an email address as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* ulu.lu - Gandi domain parking page as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* unfaker.it - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* updating.me - not a URL shortening service as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* ur.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* urizy.com - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* url-press.com - Suspended by web host.<br />
* URL.AG - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* url.co.uk - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* url.com - Redirects to a lyric search site as of 21:06, 2016-11-21 (EST)<br />
* url4.eu - Site for sale as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* url9.com - Sequential, alphanumeric. Leading 0s are significant. "The site is working correctly."<br />
* url360.me - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* urlborg.com - 404 Not Found.<br />
* urlBorg.com - 404s as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* URLCorta.es - For sale as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* urlcover.com - Domain parked.<br />
* urlenco.de - server times out as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* urlG.info - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* urlhawk.com - Domain parked as of 21:06, 2016-11-21 (EST)<br />
* urli.nl - Forbidden HTTP code as of 21:06, 2016-11-21 (EST)<br />
* urloo.com - domain for sale as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* urlot.com - DNS not responding as of 21:06, 2016-11-21 (EST)<br />
* urls.im - redirects to a marketer's home page as of 21:06, 2016-11-21 (EST)<br />
* urlshort.me &ndash; Redirects to unrelated website as of 2019-05-29 - 04:22 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/gkIHZ-o6dJU --><br />
* urlshorteningservicefortwitter.com - random non-English baseball cap spam blog as of 21:06, 2016-11-21 (EST)<br />
* urlsinn.com - DNS not resolving.<br />
* urlsmash.com - DNS not resolving.<br />
* urltea.com - Dreamhost's coming soon page.<br />
* urlu.ms - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* urlvi.be - Domain parked.<br />
* urlx.ie - Redirects to software site as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* urlx.org - Owner has agreed to share his database<br />
* URLZ.at - Redirects to a clothing store as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* urlzen.com - For sale as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* usav.us &ndash; Parked domain as of 2019-05-29 - 04:46 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/p_r7Zm6RTUQ --><br />
* use.my - DNS not responding as of 02:37, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* uxp.in - <s>still resolves URLs, but site just shows blank page</s>. Domain parked.<br />
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* vaime.org &ndash; Server IP address could not be found as of 2019-05-29 - 04:44 UTC <!-- Source: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/flashgamedevs/ZAdDuH4LbwY --><br />
* vb.ly - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST) (but see above)<br />
* vi.ly - DNS not responding as of 01:36, 2015-12-07 (EST)<br />
* vibemag.co - Vibe Magazine. Times out<br />
* viralurl.com - (alias vur.me, viralurl.biz, vurl.bz, virl.ws ) connection refused as of 02:53, 2016-08-19 (EDT)<br />
* virl.co - "Have fun with interesting lists" as of 02:44, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* vl.am - Server not responding as of 16:36, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* vm.lc - Just the words "Short is cool..." as of 02:44, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* voizle.com - redirects to lovesharma as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* vsb.li / links.visibli.com/links/ - The latter uses truncated md5 hex string. See sharedby.co.<br />
* VTC.es - For sale as of 02:44, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
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* w3t.org - 403 Forbidden; construction page as of 02:44, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* w55.de - Just the domain name on the page as of 02:44, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* wa.la - For sale as of 02:44, 2016-04-29 (EDT)<br />
* wipi.es - DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* wl.tl - DNS not resolving.<br />
* wlink.us - Domain parked.<br />
* wt.org - Seems to be unrelated personal homepage as of 22:21, 2016-09-18 (EDT)<br />
* wwy.me - Server not responding as of 04:04, 2016-01-01 (EST)<br />
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* x.se - Cannot resolve, but www.x.se works.<br />
* xaddr.com - Domain parked.<br />
* XeeURL.com - server not responding as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)<br />
* xil.in - Under construction.<br />
* XiY.net - Attempts to resolve existing shortlinks return "Account Suspended". Does not appear to allow creation of new shortlinks. Seems to have issued 4 characters using [a-zA-Z0-9?] - http://xiy . net/9Hw3 http://xiy . net/?vfk (as of 17:39, 2016-05-15 (EDT))<br />
* xr.com - Doesn't resolve as of 02:37, 2016-05-14 (EDT)<br />
* xrl.in - Domain for sale as of 02:37, 2016-05-14 (EDT)<br />
* xrt.me - Spam blog as of 02:37, 2016-05-14 (EDT)<br />
* xurl.jp - Server not responding as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)<br />
* xym.kr - Gibberish (?) Korean text blog.<br />
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* y.ahoo.it - [[Yahoo]]<br />
* ya.com - Error message in Spanish as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)<br />
* ye.pe - Running an empty instance of OwnCloud as of 02:50, 2016-05-14 (EDT)<br />
* yi.tl - Server not responding as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)<br />
* yiyd.com - Directory listing for a spam site as of 02:50, 2016-05-14 (EDT)<br />
* yweb.com - Suspicious iframe with long url and fake loading gif image.<br />
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* z.pe - ERR_NAME_NOT_RESOLVED as of 2018-12-27<br />
* z0p.de - Domain for sale as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)<br />
* zi.mu - Server not responding as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)<br />
* zi.pe - 404s as of 01:29, 2016-06-21 (EDT)<br />
* zip.li - parking page as of 17:51, 2015-12-12 (EST)<br />
* zip.sm - was a redirect to joturl.com. Now times out<br />
* ZipMyURL.com - Server not responding as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)<br />
* zud.me - Allows creation of new shortlinks, but throws 404 when resolving. May be fixed at some point. Currently issuing 3 character shortlink (lowercase a-z so far), appears sequential. http://zud . me/xxd http://zud . me/xxe No custom shortlinks. Returns 404 error when resolving a shortlink (as of 01:39, 2016-05-15 (EDT))<br />
* zz.gd - Was shut down due to spam sometime around 2010. Existing URLs do not seem to resolve as of 02:50, 2016-05-14 (EDT) (Now redirects to http://fokex.com/)<br />
* zzang.kr - domain for sale as of 12:32, 2016-09-05 (EDT)<br />
* ъеъ.рф - Dead as of 2019-04-18 <!-- All Results gone from Google --><br />
<br />
==== External list ====<br />
<br />
* https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LD-D8mBBYdqS37oJ86VSb-fQwgM1R5tYGA3hjn6vQiE/edit#gid=0 This list is freely commentable (if you need write access PM luckcolor on archiveteam ircs) and it's managed by luckcolors. It lists dead shortners with archived data which we can use to make a browsable archive. Last updated 2016-06-20.<br />
<br />
==== Discontinued ====<br />
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* adjix.com - <s>Still resolves URLs, but site does not work: "The requested application was not found on this server."</s> - Is static host on AWS service.<ref>https://twitter.com/Adjix/status/154222637801943041</ref><br />
* beam.to - Discontinued Domain is for sale.<br />
* feedly.com/e/ - realized that URL shorteners were bad <ref>http://blog.feedly.com/2014/10/28/feedly-url-shortener-retired/</ref>. Non-cooperative.<br />
* icanhaz.com -- shut down sometime around 2010-06; [https://archive.org/details/icanhaz.com.2010.07.15 IA dump] that should be un-darked.<br />
* lks.uk.to -- no DNS as of 03:01, 2015-12-15 (EST) ; has a [https://archive.org/details/LKSBACKUP29_07_2010 dump] on IA in 301Works; need to ping them about un-darking it.<br />
* metamark.net / xrl.us - no longer allowing new urls to be shortened, existing urls still work (Ex. http://xrl.us/bfabog). Uploaded a database dump to Internet archive.<br />
* p.tl -- Used by Pixiv to link to illustrations using their ID number. Discontinued on 9/29/2017.<ref>http://p.tl/</ref><br />
* pnt.me - Doesn't appear guessable, too big a space to bruteforce: http://pnt.me/FzAblc (DNS not responding as of 16:15, 2015-12-12 (EST)) [https://archive.org/details/pnt.me.2010.07.28 IA dump] that should be un-darked.<br />
* s.tt - shortener of {{url|1=http://repost.us}}. There is a dump on IA: https://archive.org/details/stt-7-18-14 -- but it is still restricted, contrary to 301works rules ("a closing company will agree to allow 301Works to publish the mappings", as stated [https://archive.org/details/301works-faq here]). Someone should ping IA about this.<br />
* urlbrief.com - supposedly [https://archive.org/details/urlbrief co-operated] with 301Works.org -- but the collection is empty, and DNS doesn't respond as of 02:44, 2015-12-15 (EST). Someone should ping IA and ask them to un-dark the collection, if there is anything, per the 301works rules.<br />
* va.mu - server is down as of 23:04, 2015-12-15 (EST); 16 items on [https://archive.org/details/301vmu IA] that should be un-darked.<br />
* Zapt.In - 404's as of 23:10, 2015-12-15 (EST) ; https://archive.org/details/ZaptinShortedUrlsIn20113110 should be un-darked; appears to be under control of IA as of 2016-05-30, 18:31 CEST<br />
<br />
=== External lists to integrate ===<br />
See [[URLTeam/unsorted]]<br />
<br />
== Archives ==<br />
<br />
Check out [[Audit2014]] and help audit the archives. In particular, the stuff not on Internet Archive needs to be uploaded.<br />
<br />
* See the latest torrent release for URLs before Tinytown. A copy is available at [https://archive.org/details/URLTeamTorrentRelease2013July URLTeamTorrentRelease2013July]<br />
* Tinytown results are [https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject:terroroftinytown&sort=-publicdate uploaded to the Internet Archive]. They are incremental, so you will need to download them all to get all URLs. A (manually updated) list of all the torrents is available [[URLTeam/torrents|here]].<br />
** They are formatted as follows:<br />
*** Each IA item (which can be downloaded in full via BitTorrent or as a zip file) contains multiple zip files, named <code>'''PROJECT_NAME'''.'''TIMESTAMP'''.zip</code> (where <code>'''PROJECT_NAME'''</code> is the warrior project name (as listed in the table below, and on https://tracker.archiveteam.org:1338/status) and <code>'''TIMESTAMP'''</code> is a dash-separated timestamp matching the name of the item.<br />
*** Each zip file contains a subdirectory matching the <code>'''PROJECT_NAME'''</code>, which contains a file named <code>'''PROJECT_NAME'''.meta.json.xz</code> and one or more files whose names start with one or more underscores, followed by <code>.txt.xz</code>.<br />
*** The <code>xz</code> files can be decompressed with the [[wikipedia:XZ Utils]].<br />
*** The <code>meta.json</code> file is a copy of the project settings (as linked from the table below) at the time the dump was made.<br />
*** The <code>txt</code> files contain the actual URLs, in [https://gbv.github.io/beaconspec/beacon.html BEACON] format.<br />
*** The simple description of BEACON format is that each line (except for a few header lines) consists of the shortcode, followed by a vertical bar, followed by the original URL.<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references /><br />
<br />
== Weblinks ==<br />
* [http://urlte.am urlte.am]<br />
* [http://301works.org 301works.org]<br />
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20131025182943/http://rield.com/faq/why-url-shorteners-are-bad Why URL shortening services and shortURLs are bad]<br />
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=== Common URL shortening software ===<br />
<br />
Ha-ha! Please don't run a URL shortening service.<br />
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* [https://github.com/YOURLS/YOURLS YOURLS] (aka http://yourls.org )<br />
* [https://github.com/cydrobolt/polr Polr] (aka https://polrproject.org/ )<br />
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| title = CNET Forums<br />
| logo = Cnet-redball-logo.svg.png<br />
| image = Cnet-forums 2020-12-02.png<br />
| description = CNET Forums homepage<br />
| URL = https://www.cnet.com/forums/<br />
| project_status = {{closing}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{notsavedyet}}<br />
| source =<br />
| tracker = <br />
| irc = archiveteam<br />
| irc_network = hackint<br />
| lead = <br />
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CNET Forums are part of the popular CNET online magazine. According to its own numbers, there're over 530k forum topics.<br />
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== Shutdown notice ==<br />
''Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.''<br />
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''Thanks,''<br />
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| title = freshlive.tv<br />
| logo = Freshlive-logo.svg.png<br />
| image = Freshlivetv-official-57266-20201204.png<br />
| description = Screenshot of a video on Freshlive's own official channel<br />
| URL = https://freshlive.tv/<br />
| project_status = {{closing}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{notsavedyet}}<br />
| source =<br />
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Freshlive is a Japanese video hosting website and app. Both free and paid content was made available through it. It is currently in a staged shutdown, public access to the website is expected to be restricted on December 18th, 2020.<br />
<br />
= Shutdown announcement =<br />
[https://old.reddit.com/r/stardomjoshi/comments/j3obvb/fresh_live_marvelous_streamingvod_provider_will/ E-mail announcement], posted by a user on October 2nd, 2020:<br />
<pre>Thank you for using FRESH LIVE.<br />
We are sorry to announce that FRESH LIVE will no longer be available. We would like to thank you for your continued support. We would like to thank you for your continued support.<br />
The schedule for the future is as follows<br />
<br />
* Announcement to users: Early October<br />
* Automatic billing renewal for pay-per-month channels will stop on Friday, October 30<br />
* Making Public Videos Private Monday, November 30<br />
* Termination of the delivery function Monday, November 30<br />
* Access to FRESH LIVE will be suspended on Friday, December 18<br />
* End of providing the past video download function on Friday, January 29<br />
* End of providing the revenue drawer function Friday, January 29<br />
* Suspension of access to the distribution management screen Friday, January 29<br />
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Please note that the schedule is subject to change.<br />
<br />
OPENREC.tv, which is operated by our group companies, provides high quality, low latency video streaming. We offer a live streaming service. Similar to FRESH LIVE, we also offer a monthly fee-based channel.<br />
If you have any questions about opening a channel on OPENREC.tv, please contact us for more information.</pre><br />
<br />
The [https://daily.freshlive.tv/posts/10710897 latest post] on Freshlive's announcement blog reads (Google Translate):<br />
<pre>2020.10.09 09:30<br />
Notice of end of FRESH LIVE service<br />
<br />
<br />
FRESH LIVE will end the provision of all services as of November 30, 2020 (Monday).<br />
<br />
For customers who are currently subscribed to the monthly membership channel, the billing will not be automatically renewed after November 1st (Sun).<br />
Programs that are open to the public for free will be available for viewing until Sunday, November 29th.<br />
<br />
Thank you for your patronage. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.</pre><br />
<br />
= Site structure =<br />
The site featured long-term videos, "programs" (streams) and posts, possibly more. Examples:<br />
<br />
* Channel with premium (payment) content: https://freshlive.tv/sakuragakuin<br />
* A freely accessible text post by above channel: https://daily.freshlive.tv/posts/10265101<br />
* A normal video: https://freshlive.tv/tackychannel/12560<br />
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A page's information for video content is stored at the bottom of HTML in the second <nowiki><script>-tag after div.announcer</nowiki> and contains the metadata necessary to retrieve the video.<br />
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Videos are hosted as .m3u8 playlists of .ts segments (backed by Cloudfront CDN); based ''tackychannel'' above:<br />
# Extract json metadata from HTML<br />
#* This includes all info for the client-side to render the page: Channel, thumbnails, recommendations etc.<br />
# Contains all resolutions (quality): https://movie.freshlive.tv/manifest/12560/archive.m3u8<br />
#* manifests will return a JSON if an error occurs: e.g. "json.errors[0].message" → "forbidden" for premium content / "not found"<br />
# Get playlist for highest quality: https://movie.freshlive.tv/playlist/37466.m3u8<br />
# Download the video segments</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=File:Freshlivetv-official-57266-20201204.png&diff=45875File:Freshlivetv-official-57266-20201204.png2020-12-04T22:12:37Z<p>VADemon: https://freshlive.tv/official/57266</p>
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<div>== Summary ==<br />
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<div>The '''Deathwatch''' or '''Watchlist''' is a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down and serves as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly.<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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(The content of the Getting Things Done table, merged with the In Progress table, can now be found on [[Small projects]].)<br />
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== Pre-emptive Alarmbells (Likely To Die) ==<br />
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=== Sunset Happy ===<br />
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*Oath/Verizon<br />
** Archive Team officially proclaims '''[[Yahoo!]]''' the least trustable host and its arch-enemy. Prove us different, Yahooligans. Or... don't. Expect anything in [[wikipedia:List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!]] and [[wikipedia:List_of_Yahoo!-owned_sites_and_services]] to shutdown (if it hasn't already).<br />
**Please follow the feeds! {{url|https://twitter.com/YahooVictims}} & {{url|http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/03733117766037168292/11115209096644139952}}<br />
** [[AOL]] has decided to follow in Yahoo's footsteps by mass-closing websites at an alarmingly fast rate. Be careful not to leave any important data with them!<br />
* [[Nokia]] has recently been shutting down services at an alarmingly fast rate. Back up your data, Nokia users!<br />
* [[World2ch.org]] - ''"not dead yet!"''<br />
* [[Reddit]] "quarantines" many controversial subreddits with up to hundreds of thousands subscribers each. Many of such quarantined subreddits have been deleted, so it is important to make backups of them. [https://www.reddit.com/r/thequarantinelist/ Here is a list of quarantined reddits.]<br />
* [[Wikidot]] 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 />
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=== Just When You Least Expect It ===<br />
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Archive Team keeps a list of '''[[Fire_Drill|"healthy sites"]]''' that could be fine today and not so hot tomorrow. We focus on ways to back your personal data off these sites so you don't put yourself at unnecessary risk.<br />
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=== Other endangered species and misc ideas ===<br />
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* User-created content in video games are always in danger of a being lost forever. This includes:<br />
** Over 100,000 levels made in games like the Little Big Planet series or Super Mario Maker series.<br />
** Custom golf courses made in The Golf Club series.<br />
** Various banners, spray paints, weapon skins, and insignias from competitive online shooters.<br />
** Maps in multiple Halo games have been modified and shared with the Forge game mode.<br />
** Specialized tracks built in car racing games.<br />
** Almost everything made in the PlayStation 4 game Dreams.<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w Louis Rossmann's Youtube channel]. He released a video on June 30th with strong hints his channel and business were being shutdown because of reasons he was not able to state. <br />
** He runs/ran a business repairing Apple Macbook motherboards and making videos on how to do these repairs, business advice and related philosophy. <br />
** These repairs are considered "unauthorized" by Apple and could the driving force behind the shutdown. <br />
** There are approximately 700 educational videos on his channel that should be archived, please see the [[YouTube]] page on how to archive YouTube videos. <br />
** His business websites could also be at risk https://www.rossmanngroup.com/ & https://mailin.repair/ & https://www.rossmanngroup.com/boards/<br />
* BitTorrent DHT - indexed by various projects who tend to get shut down sooner or later:<br />
** [https://btdb.to BTDB] - has had domain seized in the past, [http://btdb.to/about uses gmail for DMCA notices], no other contact info<br />
** [https://btdig.com/ BTDigg] - has had multiple domains seized in the past and died before. Twitter and Facebook is inactive. Contact page doesn't work, but allegedly uses email form<br />
** [https://torrentproject.se/ Torrent Project] - maybe dead, see [[Deathwatch#2017]] for more information<br />
** [https://itorrents.org iTorrents.org] - torrent cache, run by the operator of limetorrents.cc (see whois for contact information)<br />
* [[8chan]] disappeared from the clearnet in early August 2019.<br />
* [[SteamGridDB]] is unable to pay for its servers, and will shut down on 31st March 2020 unless there is some sort of miraculous Patreon/sponsor intervention.<br />
* We have even more small tidbits of information at [[Deathwatch/Misc]].<br />
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== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
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Websites (notable or ones with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
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=== 2024 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
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=== 2022 ===<br />
* June: [[Chrome Web Store]] ends support for Chrome apps on Chrome OS. <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 />
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=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: iTunes U<ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* October 15: The Tor Project will release a new version of the client that drops support for version 2 of Onion Services, effectively rendering them inaccessible once the network upgrades.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref><br />
* September 30: 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><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|https://oengus.io/Oengus}}, speedrun marathon tracker, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://pastebin.com/LYngmiKK}}</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June: [[Chrome Web Store]] ends 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 />
* 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: [[Chrome Web Store]] shuts down payment system for paid extensions. <ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21451111/google-paid-chrome-extension-monetize-shut-down-end}}</ref> <ref>https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/cws-payments-deprecation</ref><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>. Has a forum with ~700k threads.<br />
* January 28: {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/option/upp/|So-net U-Page+}}<br />
* January 15: [[Fast.io]] shuts down for all users.<ref>The shutdown notice is visible on the login page (click the Read More link): {{URL|https://go.fast.io/login}}</ref><br />
* January 1 (0:00 CET): EURid will withdraw all .eu domain names owned by UK residents who are no longer eligible to own such domains through an EU citizenship. The domains will be frozen and 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: [[Twitch Sings]] is shut down completely and remaining recordings are removed.<ref name="twitch-sings-announcement">{{URL|https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2020/09/04/twitch-sings-closes-january-1/}}</ref><ref name="twitch-sings-faq">{{URL|https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/an-introduction-to-twitch-sings}}</ref><br />
* "early 2021": [[CNET Forums]] ({{URL|https://www.cnet.com/forums/|link}}). "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>Forum banner text at time of writing.</ref><br />
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=== 2020 ===<br />
* Unknown: Hungarian news outlet {{URL|https://index.hu/|Index}} is likely going to collapse after its editor-in-chief got laid off on July 22<ref>{{URL|https://index.hu/english/2020/07/22/szabolcs_dull_editor_in_chief_index_dismissed/}}</ref> and most editorial staff quit in protest on July 24<ref>{{URL|https://index.hu/english/2020/07/24/editorial_board_of_index_resigns/}}</ref>.<br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} will be shutting down as announced on 12 June<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref> but no date has been announced.<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 />
* Unknown: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, will shut down sometime this year having become read-only on July 5.<br />
* December 31: Adobe [[Flash]] officially reaches end-of-life and will be disappearing quickly as it gets dropped by browsers.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171202123704/https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/]</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.lacartoonerie.com/|La Cartoonerie}}, a French Flash animation hosting site and community<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.lacartoonerie.com/showthread.php?tid=3734&pid=151087#pid151087}}</ref><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: The popular webcomic host {{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/|Smack Jeeves}} will shut down, potentially destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December: Texas Instruments' {{URL|https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Main_Page|Processors Wiki}} will reach End-of-Life. (Quoth header across each wiki page)<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] will retire free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://gamestarmechanic.com|Gamestar Mechanic}} will shut down as Adobe Flash is being discontinued.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/GamestarMech/status/1310993121220714496}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{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><br />
* December 18: [[Freshlive]], a Japanese video platform closing its doors, channels get a few more weeks to download their content.<br />
* (possibly) December 15 (but otherwise in December/January): {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", will possibly disappear 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><br />
* December 15: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 1: [[Chrome Web Store]] disables free trials of paid extensions. <ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21451111/google-paid-chrome-extension-monetize-shut-down-end}}</ref> <ref>https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/cws-payments-deprecation</ref><br />
* December 1: [[Twitch Sings]] starts removing videos and songs.<ref name="twitch-sings-announcement" /><ref name="twitch-sings-faq" /><br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media is deleting 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 />
* November 14: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* <s>November 1</s>: {{URL|http://furnation.ru/|FurNation.ru}}, a Russian furry community that has existed since 2006, was announced to shut down.<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 the site alive until at least February as of 2020-10-30<ref>{{URL|http://stormwind.furnation.ru/journal/49063/}}</ref>.<br />
* October 21: {{URL|https://store.playstation.com/|PlayStation Store}} removes 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 />
* 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>{{URL|https://www.dell.com/support/article/SLN321834}}</ref><br />
* October 1: [[Nagi]] shuts 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 />
* September 30: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}}'s data is 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: {{URL|https://samsungvr.com/|Samsung XR}}, the company's virtual reality platform, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</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 />
* September 15: {{URL|https://www.rakuten.com/shop/|Rakuten Americas marketplace}}.<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> (It's unclear whether the marketplace part of the website will completely disappear, but content deletion is very likely.)<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> are shutting down. The brands are owned by [[G/O Media]] but operated in the UK by Future plc, and the licence between the two expires.<br />
* "mid-2020": [[Microsoft]] will retire [[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 />
* 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: [[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 />
* August 21: {{URL|https://www.intomore.com/|INTO}}<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/SerenaSonoma/status/1286777944803811335}}</ref><br />
* August 3: [[Microsoft]] is removing 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><br />
* August 1: [[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 />
* July 31: {{URL|http://www.sweetbrokacik.pl/|Sweet Brokacik}}, a Polish forum<br />
* 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}} will also be deleted.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/new-home-for-this-forum-community/720/3}}</ref><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://forums.cyan.com/|Cyan}}, the parent of {{URL|https://mystonline.com|Myst Online}}, will be shutting their forums down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.cyan.com/viewtopic.php?f=99&t=1608}}</ref><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://mystonline.com/forums|Myst Online}} will be closing their forums.<ref>{{URL|1=https://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=29240}}</ref><br />
* April 1: [[ISP Hosting|Ziggo's personal webspace]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.ziggo.nl/klantenservice/internet/webspace}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* Unknown: [[Linux Journal]] (unmaintained since August 7)<br />
* Unknown <s>December 11</s>: [[Twitter]] will purge 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 />
* December 31: [[BlackBerry World]] will shut down.<br />
* <s>December 12</s>: {{URL|https://www.storywars.net/|Story Wars}}, a collaborative story writing platform, <s>will shut down.<ref>Announcement on {{URL|https://www.facebook.com/StoryWars/photos/2822038917826805/|Facebook}} and {{URL|https://www.instagram.com/p/B49tRdVD4C-/|Instagram}}</ref></s> will remain online and is supposedly safe for five years per an announcement in the forums on the site dated 23 Nov.<ref>{{URL|https://www.storywars.net/forums/1/63717|"Story Wars is Saved (officially)"}} (login required, {{URL|https://transfer.notkiska.pw/inline/TYxCO/screenshot_storywars.net_forums_1_63717_2019-12-14.png|screenshot}})</ref><br />
* <s>December 9</s>: [[SoundCloud]] will '''not'''<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/SoundCloud/status/1202688115636346880}}</ref> introduce new limits for the free accounts, which would likely have lead to deletions due to no longer being able to upload new songs without paying.<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><br />
* October 30 onwards: {{URL|https://deadspin.com/|Deadspin}} (G/O Media) loses its entire editorial staff to resignations after the editor-in-chief was fired. The future of Deadspin is unclear.<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><br />
* September 20: Mozilla software community site [http://mozillazine.org/ mozillaZine]'s admin kerz announces that the site will be frozen; it is currently<sup>[2020-07-02]</sup> unclear when this will happen and for how long the site will remain online after.<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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being.<br />
* <s>June 16</s>: {{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> but was then sold instead<ref>{{URL|https://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60728-a-new-and-exciting-beginning}}</ref>. Its future is currently (August 2019) unclear.<br />
* <s>June 1</s>: {{URL|http://www.supertopo.com/|SuperTopo}}'s {{URL|http://supertopo.com/climbing/forum.php|forums}} with over 2.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=3198199}}</ref>. As of 2020-07-02, they are still online but appear to be read-only.<br />
* March 30: goo.gl, [[Google]] froze their URL shortening service but existing shortlinks will continue to resolve.<ref>{{URL|https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/18051950/flickr-1000-photo-limit-free-accounts-changes-pro-subscription-smugmug}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/02/04/flickr-begin-deleting-photos-users-if-they-dont-pay-fee/2769812002/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* October/November 2018: Donny Long and PornWikiLeaks are attempting to have [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] shut down.<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].<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><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 2020-07-02.<br />
* Date unknown: {{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; it remains online as of 2020-07-02.<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 2020-07-02, 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><br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2020 ===<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 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 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 <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 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<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>: {{URL|https://www.99.se/|99}}, 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 />
* 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 />
* 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 />
<br />
===2013===<br />
<br />
* 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 />
<br />
===2012===<br />
<br />
* 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]]''' 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 />
* '''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 />
* '''[[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 />
* '''[[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 />
* '''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|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.<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 />
* '''[[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.<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 />
* '''[[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. It seems that the site is going back to full health again. <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|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://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 />
* 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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=== Humorous ===<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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[[Category:Archive Team]]</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Freshlive&diff=45872Freshlive2020-12-04T01:52:53Z<p>VADemon: Create</p>
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Freshlive is a Japanese video hosting website and app. Both free and paid content was made available through it. It is currently in a staged shutdown, public access to the website is expected to be restricted on December 18th, 2020.<br />
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= Shutdown announcement =<br />
[https://old.reddit.com/r/stardomjoshi/comments/j3obvb/fresh_live_marvelous_streamingvod_provider_will/ E-mail announcement], posted by a user on October 2nd, 2020:<br />
<pre>Thank you for using FRESH LIVE.<br />
We are sorry to announce that FRESH LIVE will no longer be available. We would like to thank you for your continued support. We would like to thank you for your continued support.<br />
The schedule for the future is as follows<br />
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* Announcement to users: Early October<br />
* Automatic billing renewal for pay-per-month channels will stop on Friday, October 30<br />
* Making Public Videos Private Monday, November 30<br />
* Termination of the delivery function Monday, November 30<br />
* Access to FRESH LIVE will be suspended on Friday, December 18<br />
* End of providing the past video download function on Friday, January 29<br />
* End of providing the revenue drawer function Friday, January 29<br />
* Suspension of access to the distribution management screen Friday, January 29<br />
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Please note that the schedule is subject to change.<br />
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OPENREC.tv, which is operated by our group companies, provides high quality, low latency video streaming. We offer a live streaming service. Similar to FRESH LIVE, we also offer a monthly fee-based channel.<br />
If you have any questions about opening a channel on OPENREC.tv, please contact us for more information.</pre><br />
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The [https://daily.freshlive.tv/posts/10710897 latest post] on Freshlive's announcement blog reads (Google Translate):<br />
<pre>2020.10.09 09:30<br />
Notice of end of FRESH LIVE service<br />
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FRESH LIVE will end the provision of all services as of November 30, 2020 (Monday).<br />
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For customers who are currently subscribed to the monthly membership channel, the billing will not be automatically renewed after November 1st (Sun).<br />
Programs that are open to the public for free will be available for viewing until Sunday, November 29th.<br />
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Thank you for your patronage. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.</pre><br />
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= Site structure =<br />
The site featured long-term videos, "programs" (streams) and posts, possibly more. Examples:<br />
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* Channel with premium (payment) content: https://freshlive.tv/sakuragakuin<br />
* A freely accessible text post by above channel: https://daily.freshlive.tv/posts/10265101<br />
* A normal video: https://freshlive.tv/tackychannel/12560<br />
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A page's information for video content is stored at the bottom of HTML in the second <nowiki><script>-tag after div.announcer</nowiki> and contains the metadata necessary to retrieve the video.<br />
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Videos are hosted as .m3u8 playlists of .ts segments (backed by Cloudfront CDN); based ''tackychannel'' above:<br />
# Extract json metadata from HTML<br />
#* This includes all info for the client-side to render the page: Channel, thumbnails, recommendations etc.<br />
# Contains all resolutions (quality): https://movie.freshlive.tv/manifest/12560/archive.m3u8<br />
#* manifests will return a JSON if an error occurs: e.g. "json.errors[0].message" → "forbidden" for premium content / "not found"<br />
# Get playlist for highest quality: https://movie.freshlive.tv/playlist/37466.m3u8<br />
# Download the video segments</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Deathwatch&diff=45838Deathwatch2020-12-02T18:23:53Z<p>VADemon: /* 2021 */ Add link to CNET Forums wiki page</p>
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<div>The '''Deathwatch''' or '''Watchlist''' is a central indicator of websites and networks that are shutting down and serves as an indicator of what happened to particular sites that shut down quickly.<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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(The content of the Getting Things Done table, merged with the In Progress table, can now be found on [[Small projects]].)<br />
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== Pre-emptive Alarmbells (Likely To Die) ==<br />
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=== Sunset Happy ===<br />
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*Oath/Verizon<br />
** Archive Team officially proclaims '''[[Yahoo!]]''' the least trustable host and its arch-enemy. Prove us different, Yahooligans. Or... don't. Expect anything in [[wikipedia:List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo!]] and [[wikipedia:List_of_Yahoo!-owned_sites_and_services]] to shutdown (if it hasn't already).<br />
**Please follow the feeds! {{url|https://twitter.com/YahooVictims}} & {{url|http://www.google.com/alerts/feeds/03733117766037168292/11115209096644139952}}<br />
** [[AOL]] has decided to follow in Yahoo's footsteps by mass-closing websites at an alarmingly fast rate. Be careful not to leave any important data with them!<br />
* [[Nokia]] has recently been shutting down services at an alarmingly fast rate. Back up your data, Nokia users!<br />
* [[World2ch.org]] - ''"not dead yet!"''<br />
* [[Reddit]] "quarantines" many controversial subreddits with up to hundreds of thousands subscribers each. Many of such quarantined subreddits have been deleted, so it is important to make backups of them. [https://www.reddit.com/r/thequarantinelist/ Here is a list of quarantined reddits.]<br />
* [[Wikidot]] 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 />
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=== Just When You Least Expect It ===<br />
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Archive Team keeps a list of '''[[Fire_Drill|"healthy sites"]]''' that could be fine today and not so hot tomorrow. We focus on ways to back your personal data off these sites so you don't put yourself at unnecessary risk.<br />
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=== Other endangered species and misc ideas ===<br />
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* User-created content in video games are always in danger of a being lost forever. This includes:<br />
** Over 100,000 levels made in games like the Little Big Planet series or Super Mario Maker series.<br />
** Custom golf courses made in The Golf Club series.<br />
** Various banners, spray paints, weapon skins, and insignias from competitive online shooters.<br />
** Maps in multiple Halo games have been modified and shared with the Forge game mode.<br />
** Specialized tracks built in car racing games.<br />
** Almost everything made in the PlayStation 4 game Dreams.<br />
* [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl2mFZoRqjw_ELax4Yisf6w Louis Rossmann's Youtube channel]. He released a video on June 30th with strong hints his channel and business were being shutdown because of reasons he was not able to state. <br />
** He runs/ran a business repairing Apple Macbook motherboards and making videos on how to do these repairs, business advice and related philosophy. <br />
** These repairs are considered "unauthorized" by Apple and could the driving force behind the shutdown. <br />
** There are approximately 700 educational videos on his channel that should be archived, please see the [[YouTube]] page on how to archive YouTube videos. <br />
** His business websites could also be at risk https://www.rossmanngroup.com/ & https://mailin.repair/ & https://www.rossmanngroup.com/boards/<br />
* BitTorrent DHT - indexed by various projects who tend to get shut down sooner or later:<br />
** [https://btdb.to BTDB] - has had domain seized in the past, [http://btdb.to/about uses gmail for DMCA notices], no other contact info<br />
** [https://btdig.com/ BTDigg] - has had multiple domains seized in the past and died before. Twitter and Facebook is inactive. Contact page doesn't work, but allegedly uses email form<br />
** [https://torrentproject.se/ Torrent Project] - maybe dead, see [[Deathwatch#2017]] for more information<br />
** [https://itorrents.org iTorrents.org] - torrent cache, run by the operator of limetorrents.cc (see whois for contact information)<br />
* [[8chan]] disappeared from the clearnet in early August 2019.<br />
* [[SteamGridDB]] is unable to pay for its servers, and will shut down on 31st March 2020 unless there is some sort of miraculous Patreon/sponsor intervention.<br />
* We have even more small tidbits of information at [[Deathwatch/Misc]].<br />
<br />
== Pining for the Fjords (Dying) ==<br />
<br />
Websites (notable or ones with user-generated content) that are definitively shutting down. No speculation please! Sites that appear troubled should go on [[Fire Drill]].<br />
<br />
=== 2024 ===<br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://tomlehrersongs.com/|Tom Lehrer Songs}}<br />
<br />
=== 2022 ===<br />
* June: [[Chrome Web Store]] ends support for Chrome apps on Chrome OS. <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 />
<br />
=== 2021 ===<br />
* December 31: iTunes U<ref>{{URL|https://support.apple.com/guide/itunesu/welcome/web}}</ref><br />
* October 15: The Tor Project will release a new version of the client that drops support for version 2 of Onion Services, effectively rendering them inaccessible once the network upgrades.<ref>{{URL|https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline}}</ref><br />
* September 30: 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><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|https://oengus.io/Oengus}}, speedrun marathon tracker, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://pastebin.com/LYngmiKK}}</ref><br />
* June 30: [[Google Poly]]<ref>{{URL|https://support.google.com/poly/answer/10192635}}</ref><br />
* June: [[Chrome Web Store]] ends 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 />
* 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: [[Chrome Web Store]] shuts down payment system for paid extensions. <ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21451111/google-paid-chrome-extension-monetize-shut-down-end}}</ref> <ref>https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/cws-payments-deprecation</ref><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>. Has a forum with ~700k threads.<br />
* January 28: {{URL|https://www.so-net.ne.jp/option/upp/|So-net U-Page+}}<br />
* January 15: [[Fast.io]] shuts down for all users.<ref>The shutdown notice is visible on the login page (click the Read More link): {{URL|https://go.fast.io/login}}</ref><br />
* January 1 (0:00 CET): EURid will withdraw all .eu domain names owned by UK residents who are no longer eligible to own such domains through an EU citizenship. The domains will be frozen and 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: [[Twitch Sings]] is shut down completely and remaining recordings are removed.<ref name="twitch-sings-announcement">{{URL|https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2020/09/04/twitch-sings-closes-january-1/}}</ref><ref name="twitch-sings-faq">{{URL|https://help.twitch.tv/s/article/an-introduction-to-twitch-sings}}</ref><br />
* "early 2021": [[CNET Forums]] ({{URL|https://www.cnet.com/forums/|link}}). "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>Forum banner text at time of writing.</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2020 ===<br />
* Unknown: Hungarian news outlet {{URL|https://index.hu/|Index}} is likely going to collapse after its editor-in-chief got laid off on July 22<ref>{{URL|https://index.hu/english/2020/07/22/szabolcs_dull_editor_in_chief_index_dismissed/}}</ref> and most editorial staff quit in protest on July 24<ref>{{URL|https://index.hu/english/2020/07/24/editorial_board_of_index_resigns/}}</ref>.<br />
* Unknown: {{URL|https://komixxy.pl/|Komixxy.pl}} will be shutting down as announced on 12 June<ref>{{URL|https://komixxy.pl/1500943/To-juz-koniec-niestety-duzo-wspomnien}}</ref> but no date has been announced.<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 />
* Unknown: {{URL|http://cafe.themarker.com/|TheMarker Café}}, a blogging platform from Israel, will shut down sometime this year having become read-only on July 5.<br />
* December 31: Adobe [[Flash]] officially reaches end-of-life and will be disappearing quickly as it gets dropped by browsers.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20171202123704/https://theblog.adobe.com/adobe-flash-update/]</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://www.lacartoonerie.com/|La Cartoonerie}}, a French Flash animation hosting site and community<ref>{{URL|1=https://forum.lacartoonerie.com/showthread.php?tid=3734&pid=151087#pid151087}}</ref><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: The popular webcomic host {{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/|Smack Jeeves}} will shut down, potentially destroying record of comics that are not active or with inattentive authors.<ref>{{URL|https://www.smackjeeves.com/notice/36}}</ref><br />
* December: Texas Instruments' {{URL|https://processors.wiki.ti.com/index.php/Main_Page|Processors Wiki}} will reach End-of-Life. (Quoth header across each wiki page)<br />
* December 31: [[Fast.io]] will retire free accounts.<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/geraldopcf/status/1317838268227067904}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{URL|https://gamestarmechanic.com|Gamestar Mechanic}} will shut down as Adobe Flash is being discontinued.<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/GamestarMech/status/1310993121220714496}}</ref><br />
* December 31: {{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><br />
* (possibly) December 15 (but otherwise in December/January): {{URL|http://www.archiviolastampa.it/}}, an archive of the Italian newspaper "La Stampa", will possibly disappear 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><br />
* December 15: [[Yahoo! Groups]]<ref>{{URL|https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html}}</ref><br />
* December 1: [[Chrome Web Store]] disables free trials of paid extensions. <ref>{{URL|https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21451111/google-paid-chrome-extension-monetize-shut-down-end}}</ref> <ref>https://developer.chrome.com/webstore/cws-payments-deprecation</ref><br />
* December 1: [[Twitch Sings]] starts removing videos and songs.<ref name="twitch-sings-announcement" /><ref name="twitch-sings-faq" /><br />
* November 16 <s>November 2019</s>: G/O Media is deleting 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 />
* November 14: {{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/|Quantopian}}<ref>{{URL|https://www.quantopian.com/posts/quantopians-community-services-are-closing}}</ref><br />
* ca. November 5: {{URL|https://mozillians.org/|Mozillians}}<br />
* <s>November 1</s>: {{URL|http://furnation.ru/|FurNation.ru}}, a Russian furry community that has existed since 2006, was announced to shut down.<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 the site alive until at least February as of 2020-10-30<ref>{{URL|http://stormwind.furnation.ru/journal/49063/}}</ref>.<br />
* October 21: {{URL|https://store.playstation.com/|PlayStation Store}} removes 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 />
* 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>{{URL|https://www.dell.com/support/article/SLN321834}}</ref><br />
* October 1: [[Nagi]] shuts 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 />
* September 30: {{URL|https://www.everalbum.com/|Ever}}'s data is 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: {{URL|https://samsungvr.com/|Samsung XR}}, the company's virtual reality platform, will shut down.<ref>{{URL|https://samsungvr.com/portal/whatsnew/a_message_from_samsungxr}}</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 />
* September 15: {{URL|https://www.rakuten.com/shop/|Rakuten Americas marketplace}}.<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> (It's unclear whether the marketplace part of the website will completely disappear, but content deletion is very likely.)<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> are shutting down. The brands are owned by [[G/O Media]] but operated in the UK by Future plc, and the licence between the two expires.<br />
* "mid-2020": [[Microsoft]] will retire [[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 />
* 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: [[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 />
* August 21: {{URL|https://www.intomore.com/|INTO}}<ref>Email sent to users: {{URL|https://twitter.com/SerenaSonoma/status/1286777944803811335}}</ref><br />
* August 3: [[Microsoft]] is removing 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><br />
* August 1: [[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 />
* July 31: {{URL|http://www.sweetbrokacik.pl/|Sweet Brokacik}}, a Polish forum<br />
* 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}} will also be deleted.<ref>{{URL|https://forum.electionscience.org/t/new-home-for-this-forum-community/720/3}}</ref><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://forums.cyan.com/|Cyan}}, the parent of {{URL|https://mystonline.com|Myst Online}}, will be shutting their forums down.<ref>{{URL|1=https://forums.cyan.com/viewtopic.php?f=99&t=1608}}</ref><br />
* June 16: {{URL|https://mystonline.com/forums|Myst Online}} will be closing their forums.<ref>{{URL|1=https://mystonline.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=29240}}</ref><br />
* April 1: [[ISP Hosting|Ziggo's personal webspace]]<ref>{{URL|https://www.ziggo.nl/klantenservice/internet/webspace}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2019 ===<br />
* Unknown: [[Linux Journal]] (unmaintained since August 7)<br />
* Unknown <s>December 11</s>: [[Twitter]] will purge 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 />
* December 31: [[BlackBerry World]] will shut down.<br />
* <s>December 12</s>: {{URL|https://www.storywars.net/|Story Wars}}, a collaborative story writing platform, <s>will shut down.<ref>Announcement on {{URL|https://www.facebook.com/StoryWars/photos/2822038917826805/|Facebook}} and {{URL|https://www.instagram.com/p/B49tRdVD4C-/|Instagram}}</ref></s> will remain online and is supposedly safe for five years per an announcement in the forums on the site dated 23 Nov.<ref>{{URL|https://www.storywars.net/forums/1/63717|"Story Wars is Saved (officially)"}} (login required, {{URL|https://transfer.notkiska.pw/inline/TYxCO/screenshot_storywars.net_forums_1_63717_2019-12-14.png|screenshot}})</ref><br />
* <s>December 9</s>: [[SoundCloud]] will '''not'''<ref>{{URL|https://twitter.com/SoundCloud/status/1202688115636346880}}</ref> introduce new limits for the free accounts, which would likely have lead to deletions due to no longer being able to upload new songs without paying.<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><br />
* October 30 onwards: {{URL|https://deadspin.com/|Deadspin}} (G/O Media) loses its entire editorial staff to resignations after the editor-in-chief was fired. The future of Deadspin is unclear.<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><br />
* September 20: Mozilla software community site [http://mozillazine.org/ mozillaZine]'s admin kerz announces that the site will be frozen; it is currently<sup>[2020-07-02]</sup> unclear when this will happen and for how long the site will remain online after.<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><br />
* September 6: [[ThinkProgress]] ceased publication but will apparently remain online for the time being.<br />
* <s>June 16</s>: {{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> but was then sold instead<ref>{{URL|https://www.minecraftforum.net/news/60728-a-new-and-exciting-beginning}}</ref>. Its future is currently (August 2019) unclear.<br />
* <s>June 1</s>: {{URL|http://www.supertopo.com/|SuperTopo}}'s {{URL|http://supertopo.com/climbing/forum.php|forums}} with over 2.2 million posts<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=3198199}}</ref>. As of 2020-07-02, they are still online but appear to be read-only.<br />
* March 30: goo.gl, [[Google]] froze their URL shortening service but existing shortlinks will continue to resolve.<ref>{{URL|https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-google-url-shortener.html}}</ref><ref>{{url|https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/1/18051950/flickr-1000-photo-limit-free-accounts-changes-pro-subscription-smugmug}}</ref><ref>{{URL|https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/talkingtech/2019/02/04/flickr-begin-deleting-photos-users-if-they-dont-pay-fee/2769812002/}}</ref><br />
<br />
=== 2018 ===<br />
* October/November 2018: Donny Long and PornWikiLeaks are attempting to have [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]] shut down.<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].<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><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 2020-07-02.<br />
* Date unknown: {{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; it remains online as of 2020-07-02.<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 2020-07-02, 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><br />
<br />
== Dead as a Doornail ==<br />
=== 2020 ===<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 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 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 <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 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<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 />
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=== 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>: {{URL|https://www.99.se/|99}}, 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 />
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=== 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 />
* 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 />
* 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 />
<br />
===2008===<br />
<br />
* {{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]]''' 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 />
* '''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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* '''[[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 />
* '''[[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 />
* '''[[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 />
* '''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|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.<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 />
* '''[[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.<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 />
* '''[[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. It seems that the site is going back to full health again. <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|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://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 />
* 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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* {{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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CNET Forums are part of the popular CNET online magazine. According to its own numbers, there're over 530k forum topics.<br />
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''Thank you for being a valued part of the CNET community. As of December 1, 2020, the forums are in read-only format. In early 2021, CNET Forums will no longer be available. We are grateful for the participation and advice you have provided to one another over the years.''<br />
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Lidl-service.com is a website for Lidl products (an international supermarket chain). This website hosts historical (starting "2011-03-01") and current manuals for products of their branding.<br />
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They have a couple in-house trademarks. These include: Aquapur, Auriol, Bellarom, Cassetti, Crelando, Crivit, Dentalux , Ernesto, Florabest, Livarno, LivarnoLux, Lupilu, Melinera, Meradiso, Miomare, Nevadent, Ordex, Parkside, Playtive, Powerfix, Rocktrail, Sensiplast, Silvercrest, Topmove, Tronic, Ultimate Speed, United Office, Zoofari.<br />
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* [https://www.lidl-service.com/cps/rde/SID-4F6328AD-35301F6D/lsp/hs.xsl/product.html?id=3022068&rdeLocaleAttr=en&title=COMPRESSOR%20PKO%20270%20A1 Large] (13 languages, ~3.5 MB → 20.6 MB)<br />
* [https://www.lidl-service.com/cps/rde/SID-4F6328AD-35301F6D/lsp/hs.xsl/product.html?id=5043568478&rdeLocaleAttr=en&title=Gas%20Fireplace Small] (3 languages, ~1.2 MB → 6.36 MB)<br />
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Based on the above examples, with an average size of 16MB/product this is about 2 TB + HTML/images. The manuals are already internally deduplicated, different languages point to the same link in case of multi-lang manuals.</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Waper.ru&diff=45532Waper.ru2020-09-26T19:35:31Z<p>VADemon: Lost.</p>
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waper.ru is a russian website for mobile users with a lot of user-generated content. It features communities, forums, photo and video, blogs, anecdotes and uploads. The WAP-version is available under [http://z.waper.ru z.waper.ru]. It has been operating since May 2007, the users are still fairly active, yet the administrator stated in 2015 that he doesn't have time to continue improving the site.<ref>[http://waper.ru/forum/topic/785996 DoS exploit report - forum]</ref> [https://vk.com/club17527101 Official group in VK]<br />
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* First user, the administrator 2007-05-01: http://waper.ru/user/1<br />
* Last user registered 2019-04-07 as of writing: http://waper.ru/user/343698<br />
* Forum has over 2M messages: http://waper.ru/group/1#forum<br />
* 780000 uploaded pictures, mobile-sized: 156001 pages, with 5 per page: http://waper.ru/file/cat/pic/?page=156001<br />
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* etc. total 1468880 files</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Coloradohusky&diff=45523User talk:Coloradohusky2020-09-24T23:08:52Z<p>VADemon: /* IA links to youtube videos */</p>
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Hey Coloradohusky, I noticed that you recently created https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Schools_and_Universities. Were you aware of https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot/Educational_institutions (and the raw list https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot/Educational_institutions/list)? It would probably be good to unify pages. --[[User:Jodizzle|Jodizzle]] ([[User talk:Jodizzle|talk]]) 18:14, 22 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
: No I wasn't, thanks! I'll merge my page into the list, and clean it all up --[[User:Coloradohusky|Coloradohusky]] ([[User talk:Coloradohusky|talk]]) 20:08, 22 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
:: I also think it's worth considering a re-structure of the Educational_institutions page. The way it originally worked was that [[User:VoynichCr|VoynichCr]] had a bot that processed the links from https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot/Educational_institutions/list into the formatted table on https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot/Educational_institutions. That bot doesn't run anymore, though, and even when it did run, it crashed on processing the Educational_institutions page because it was too big and ran up against wiki page size limits (or something like that). (This sort of bot-management the original point of the "ArchiveBot/" titled pages.)<br />
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::Maybe the way to go is to have a top-level "path" called "Educational Institutions", and then nest pages under that educational institutions on a per-country basis. We do something like that for the "Elections" pages, where we have https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Elections, and then for e.g., the United States presidential election, we have https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Elections/2020_United_States_presidential_election. --[[User:Jodizzle|Jodizzle]] ([[User talk:Jodizzle|talk]]) 01:07, 23 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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:::Yes, I think that Jodizzle suggestion is fine. Sub-pages per country, or sections in one page if lists are short (not this case). My bot is deprecated and it isn't going to update "ArchiveBot/" pages. JAA was working in a new approach, but it isn't finished yet. --[[User:VoynichCr|VoynichCr]] ([[User talk:VoynichCr|talk]]) 15:54, 23 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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::::I'll do something similar to https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot/Museums/Africa, https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot/Museums/Poland, etc. --[[User:Coloradohusky|Coloradohusky]] ([[User talk:Coloradohusky|talk]]) 19:41, 23 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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They appear all broken? Not only are they missing /details/ in the URL, the only video available per the listed link (ones I tried) is from another user, not you? [[User:VADemon|VADemon]] ([[User talk:VADemon|talk]]) 11:48, 18 August 2020 (UTC)<br />
:I don't quite get what you mean? The links like https://archive.org/details/youtube-riXcZT2ICjA, or http://web.archive.org/web/20180508185252/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riXcZT2ICjA? --[[User:Coloradohusky|Coloradohusky]] ([[User talk:Coloradohusky|talk]]) 03:53, 22 August 2020 (UTC)<br />
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:: Links like this one: https://archive.org/youtube-8ccHtD6uO4A (under your Youtube category) are invalid because they don't have /details/. But even the ones I checked aren't uploaded to IA yet? [[User:VADemon|VADemon]] ([[User talk:VADemon|talk]]) 23:08, 24 September 2020 (UTC)</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=User_talk:Coloradohusky&diff=45373User talk:Coloradohusky2020-08-18T11:48:30Z<p>VADemon: /* IA links to youtube videos */ new section</p>
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Hey Coloradohusky, I noticed that you recently created https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Schools_and_Universities. Were you aware of https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot/Educational_institutions (and the raw list https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot/Educational_institutions/list)? It would probably be good to unify pages. --[[User:Jodizzle|Jodizzle]] ([[User talk:Jodizzle|talk]]) 18:14, 22 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
: No I wasn't, thanks! I'll merge my page into the list, and clean it all up --[[User:Coloradohusky|Coloradohusky]] ([[User talk:Coloradohusky|talk]]) 20:08, 22 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
:: I also think it's worth considering a re-structure of the Educational_institutions page. The way it originally worked was that [[User:VoynichCr|VoynichCr]] had a bot that processed the links from https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot/Educational_institutions/list into the formatted table on https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot/Educational_institutions. That bot doesn't run anymore, though, and even when it did run, it crashed on processing the Educational_institutions page because it was too big and ran up against wiki page size limits (or something like that). (This sort of bot-management the original point of the "ArchiveBot/" titled pages.)<br />
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::Maybe the way to go is to have a top-level "path" called "Educational Institutions", and then nest pages under that educational institutions on a per-country basis. We do something like that for the "Elections" pages, where we have https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Elections, and then for e.g., the United States presidential election, we have https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Elections/2020_United_States_presidential_election. --[[User:Jodizzle|Jodizzle]] ([[User talk:Jodizzle|talk]]) 01:07, 23 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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:::Yes, I think that Jodizzle suggestion is fine. Sub-pages per country, or sections in one page if lists are short (not this case). My bot is deprecated and it isn't going to update "ArchiveBot/" pages. JAA was working in a new approach, but it isn't finished yet. --[[User:VoynichCr|VoynichCr]] ([[User talk:VoynichCr|talk]]) 15:54, 23 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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::::I'll do something similar to https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot/Museums/Africa, https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot/Museums/Poland, etc. --[[User:Coloradohusky|Coloradohusky]] ([[User talk:Coloradohusky|talk]]) 19:41, 23 June 2020 (UTC)<br />
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They appear all broken? Not only are they missing /details/ in the URL, the only video available per the listed link (ones I tried) is from another user, not you? [[User:VADemon|VADemon]] ([[User talk:VADemon|talk]]) 11:48, 18 August 2020 (UTC)</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Desura&diff=44963Desura2020-07-03T00:28:37Z<p>VADemon: Add link to old client</p>
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Desura was an alternative video game distribution platform, similar to the likes of [[Steam]] but some games on the site were DRM-free.<br />
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In June 2015, Desura's parent company Bad Juju Games filed for bankruptcy.<ref>{{URL|1=http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1057667}}</ref><ref>{{URL|http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/06/05/desura-bankruptcy-bad-juju-games/}}</ref> In October 2016, it was announced that Desura had been acquired by OnePlay. The website is offline since October/November 2016 (according to Wayback Machine) and a new game distribution platform is to be put up in place by OnePlay in "first quarter of 2017"<ref>{{URL|http://www.oneplay.com/news/details/244_Desura_is_now_a_part_of_the_OnePlay_family_}}</ref>.<br />
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In June 2020, the website returned with an "opening soon" announcement for "a convenient platform for you to enjoy all your favorite online games in one place". According to a thread on [[Reddit]], the site is now owned by a Russian guy trying to build a Flash game hub.<ref>{{URL|https://old.reddit.com/r/Desura/comments/hcmpeo/rip_desura_domain_now_owned_by_a_russian_guy_who/}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
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[[Category:Video games]]</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Amazon&diff=44423Amazon2020-06-02T20:52:12Z<p>VADemon: Add link to Seller Forums</p>
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| title = Amazon<br />
| image = Amazon.JPG<br />
| description =<br />
| URL = http://www.amazon.com/ ''et al.''<br />
| project_status = {{online}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{nosavedyet}}<br />
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'''Amazon''' is an American international on-line retailer. Founded in 1994 and launched in 1995, Amazon started off as a book seller but soon diversed, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, computer software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food and toys.<br />
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Since Amazon stores a vast amount of product data, it offers an insight into culture which will be useful for future historians.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
*[[The Book Depository]]<br />
*[[Amazon Seller Forums]]<br />
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== External links ==<br />
*[http://www.amazon.com/ Amazon US Home]<br />
*[http://www.amazon.co.uk/ Amazon UK Home]<br />
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Amazon Seller Forums<br />
| logo = Amazon_services_seller_forums-logo.gif<br />
| image = Amazon Services Seller Forums-Screenshot 2020-06-02.png<br />
| description = Amazon Support Forums for Sellers<br />
| URL = https://sellercentral.amazon.com/<br />
| project_status = {{specialcase}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{nosavedyet}}<br />
| source =<br />
| tracker = <br />
| irc = archiveteam<br />
| irc_network = <br />
| lead =<br />
}}<br />
[[Amazon]] Seller Forums is a place for different vendors who use Amazon as a platform. Forum categories including anything from selling to shipping, account standing; there's a Chinese sub-forum.<br />
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== Special case: WBM partly blocked ==<br />
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It appears the IA's Wayback Machine is partly and silently(!) excluded from archiving certain pages on the forum: it is presented with a "Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private." page, meanwhile on a residential connection the page loads.<br />
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Examples:<br />
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* [https://sellercentral.amazon.com/t/can-i-sell-video-game-cd-keys-on-amazon/224161 Original thread URL], [https://web.archive.org/web/20200602204435/https://sellercentral.amazon.com/t/can-i-sell-video-game-cd-keys-on-amazon/224161 IA saved (may return an error without displaying actual 404's page content)], [https://web.archive.org/web/20200602204437/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://sellercentral.amazon.com/t/can-i-sell-video-game-cd-keys-on-amazon/224161 A screenshot of 404 page]<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190729051721/https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/can-we-track-our-orders-that-are-fulfilled-by-amazon/327096 Wayback saved an error instead of page]<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20200602184912/https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/suspended-account-for-ip-patent-infringement-please-help/453168 Same as above]<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20200602204143/https://sellercentral.amazon.com/t/am-i-now-allowed-to-re-sell-clothing-accessories-such-as-supreme/413279 Same as above]<br />
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All of these URLs are verified as working at the time of writing, if the direct URL is opened locally instead.</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Amazon_Seller_Forums&diff=44421Amazon Seller Forums2020-06-02T20:51:18Z<p>VADemon: create</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Amazon Seller Forums<br />
| logo = Amazon_services_seller_forums-logo.gif<br />
| image = Amazon Services Seller Forums-Screenshot 2020-06-02.png<br />
| description = Amazon Support Forums for Sellers<br />
| URL = https://sellercentral.amazon.com/<br />
| project_status = {{specialcase}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{nosavedyet}}<br />
| source =<br />
| tracker = <br />
| irc = archiveteam<br />
| irc_network = <br />
| lead =<br />
}}<br />
Amazon Seller Forums is a place for different vendors who use Amazon as a platform. Forum categories including anything from selling to shipping, account standing; there's a Chinese sub-forum.<br />
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== Special case: WBM partly blocked ==<br />
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It appears the IA's Wayback Machine is partly and silently(!) excluded from archiving certain pages on the forum: it is presented with a "Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private." page, meanwhile on a residential connection the page loads.<br />
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Examples:<br />
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* [https://sellercentral.amazon.com/t/can-i-sell-video-game-cd-keys-on-amazon/224161 Original thread URL], [https://web.archive.org/web/20200602204435/https://sellercentral.amazon.com/t/can-i-sell-video-game-cd-keys-on-amazon/224161 IA saved (may return an error without displaying actual 404's page content)], [https://web.archive.org/web/20200602204437/http://web.archive.org/screenshot/https://sellercentral.amazon.com/t/can-i-sell-video-game-cd-keys-on-amazon/224161 A screenshot of 404 page]<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20190729051721/https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/can-we-track-our-orders-that-are-fulfilled-by-amazon/327096 Wayback saved an error instead of page]<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20200602184912/https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/suspended-account-for-ip-patent-infringement-please-help/453168 Same as above]<br />
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20200602204143/https://sellercentral.amazon.com/t/am-i-now-allowed-to-re-sell-clothing-accessories-such-as-supreme/413279 Same as above]<br />
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All of these URLs are verified as working at the time of writing, if the direct URL is opened locally instead.</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=File:Amazon_Services_Seller_Forums-Screenshot_2020-06-02.png&diff=44420File:Amazon Services Seller Forums-Screenshot 2020-06-02.png2020-06-02T20:35:18Z<p>VADemon: </p>
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<div></div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Social_network&diff=44189Social network2020-04-24T10:29:58Z<p>VADemon: Add Voobly.com</p>
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<div>== Analysis ==<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/social-media-stats/2011-social-network-analysis-report/|2=2011 Social Network Analysis Report – Geographic – Demographic and Traffic Data Revealed}}<br />
* {{url|1=http://www.ignitesocialmedia.com/social-media-stats/2012-social-network-analysis-report|2=2012 Social Network Analysis Report – Demographic – Geographic and Search Data Revealed}}<br />
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== List of social networks ==<br />
* [[43 Things]]<br />
* [[Academia.edu]]<br />
* [[Adult FriendFinder]]<br />
* [[Advogato]]<br />
* [[Ameba]]<br />
* [[Amie Street]]<br />
* [[Amiguinhos]]<br />
* [[Amino]]<br />
* [[aNobii]]<br />
* [[AsianAvenue]]<br />
* [[aSmallWorld]]<br />
* [[Athlinks]]<br />
* [[Avaaz]]<br />
* [[Avatars United]]<br />
* [[Badoo]]<br />
* [[Baratikor.com]]<br />
* [[Bebo]]<br />
* [[Beltrano]]<br />
* [[BIGADDA]]<br />
* [[BigTent]]<br />
* [[Biip]]<br />
* [[Biip.no]]<br />
* [[BlackPlanet]]<br />
* [[Blauk]]<br />
* [[Blaving]]<br />
* [[Blip.fm]]<br />
* [[Bolt.com]]<br />
* [[Broadcaster.com]]<br />
* [[Busuu]]<br />
* [[Buzznet]]<br />
* [[CafeMom]]<br />
* [[Cake Financial]]<br />
* [[Care2]]<br />
* [[CaringBridge]]<br />
* [[Causecast]]<br />
* [[Cellufun]]<br />
* [[Catster]]<br />
* [[Classmates.com]]<br />
* [[Cloob]]<br />
* [[College Tonight]]<br />
* [[Colnect]]<br />
* [[CouchSurfing]]<br />
* [[CozyCot]]<br />
* [[Cross.tv]]<br />
* [[Cyworld]]<br />
* [[DailyBooth]]<br />
* [[DailyStrength]]<br />
* [[Decayenne]]<br />
* [[DeviantART]]<br />
* [[Diary&#46;ru]]<br />
* [[Diaspora*]]<br />
* [[Disaboom]]<br />
* [[Dodgeball]]<br />
* [[Dogster]]<br />
* [[Dois Amores]]<br />
* [[dol2day]]<br />
* [[DontStayIn]]<br />
* [[douban]]<br />
* [[Draugiem.lv]]<br />
* [[Dudu]]<br />
* [[DXY.cn]]<br />
* [[Ebah]]<br />
* [[Elftown]]<br />
* [[Elixio]]<br />
* [[Eons.com]]<br />
* [[Epernicus]]<br />
* [[eToro]]<br />
* [[Experience Project]]<br />
* [[Exploroo]]<br />
* [[Facebook]]<br />
* [[Faceparty]]<br />
* [[Faces.com]]<br />
* [[Fetlife]]<br />
* [[FictionCity]]<br />
* [[FilmAffinity]]<br />
* [[Filmow]]<br />
* [[FitFinder]]<br />
* [[FledgeWing]]<br />
* [[Flixster]]<br />
* [[Focus.com]]<br />
* [[Folkdirect]]<br />
* [[Formspring]]<br />
* [[Fotki]]<br />
* [[Fotolog]]<br />
* [[Foursquare]]<br />
* [[Friendica]]<br />
* [[Friends Reunited]]<br />
* [[Friendster]]<br />
* [[Frühstückstreff]]<br />
* [[Frype.com]]<br />
* [[fubar]]<br />
* [[FullCircle]]<br />
* [[Gaia Online]]<br />
* [[GamerDNA]]<br />
* [[Gapyear.com]]<br />
* [[Gather.com]]<br />
* [[Gays.com]]<br />
* [[Gazzag]]<br />
* [[Geni.com]]<br />
* [[GetGlue]]<br />
* [[Goodreads]]<br />
* [[Goodwizz]]<br />
* [[Google Buzz]]<br />
* [[Google+]]<br />
* [[GoPets]]<br />
* [[Gossipreport.com]]<br />
* [[GovLoop]]<br />
* [[Grono.net]]<br />
* [[Habbo]]<br />
* [[Hallol]]<br />
* [[hi5]]<br />
* [[Hospitality Club]]<br />
* [[Hotlist]]<br />
* [[HR.com]]<br />
* [[Hub Culture]]<br />
* [[Hyves]]<br />
* [[Ibibo]]<br />
* [[imeem]]<br />
* [[InterNations]]<br />
* [[IRC-Galleria]]<br />
* [[italki.com]]<br />
* [[itsmy]]<br />
* [[iWiW]]<br />
* [[Jammer Direct]]<br />
* [[Jiepang]]<br />
* [[kaioo]]<br />
* [[Kaixin001]]<br />
* [[Kaveris]]<br />
* [[Kibop]]<br />
* [[Kiwibox]]<br />
* [[koottam]]<br />
* [[Lafango]]<br />
* [[LAGbook]]<br />
* [[LaiBhaari]]<br />
* [[LibraryThing]]<br />
* [[Lifeknot]]<br />
* [[LinkedIn]]<br />
* [[LinkExpats]]<br />
* [[Listography]]<br />
* [[Livemocha]]<br />
* [[Lovetropolis]]<br />
* [[LunarStorm]]<br />
* [[Makeoutclub]]<br />
* [[MEETin]]<br />
* [[Meettheboss]]<br />
* [[Meetup]]<br />
* [[MillatFacebook]]<br />
* [[Millonaire Cupid]]<br />
* [[Mingle]]<br />
* [[mixi]]<br />
* [[mobikade]]<br />
* [[MocoSpace]]<br />
* [[Mouthshut]]<br />
* [[Mubi]]<br />
* [[Multiply]]<br />
* [[Muxlim]]<br />
* [[My Opera]]<br />
* [[MyAnimeList]]<br />
* [[MyChurch]]<br />
* [[MyHeritage]]<br />
* [[MyLife]]<br />
* [[MyLOL]]<br />
* [[MySpace]]<br />
* [[myVIP]]<br />
* [[myYearbook]]<br />
* [[Netlog]]<br />
* [[Nettby]]<br />
* [[Nexopia]]<br />
* [[NGO Post]]<br />
* [[Ning]]<br />
* [[nk.pl]]<br />
* [[Odnoklassniki]]<br />
* [[OkCupid]]<br />
* [[OneClimate]]<br />
* [[OneWorldTV]]<br />
* [[Orkut]]<br />
* [[OUTeverywhere]]<br />
* [[Palco Principal]]<br />
* [[Par Perfeito]]<br />
* [[PartnerUp]]<br />
* [[Partyflock]]<br />
* [[Passportstamp]]<br />
* [[PatientsLikeMe]]<br />
* [[Pingsta]]<br />
* [[Pinterest]]<br />
* [[Plaxo]]<br />
* [[Playahead]]<br />
* [[Playboy U]]<br />
* [[Playfire]]<br />
* [[Playlist.com]]<br />
* [[Present.ly]]<br />
* [[Qapacity]]<br />
* [[quarterlife]]<br />
* [[Quechup]]<br />
* [[Qzone]]<br />
* [[Raptr]]<br />
* [[Ravelry]]<br />
* [[Renren]]<br />
* [[ResearchGate]]<br />
* [[Ryze]]<br />
* [[ScienceStage]]<br />
* [[Scispace]]<br />
* [[Shelfari]]<br />
* [[Skoob]]<br />
* [[Skyrock]]<br />
* [[Skyscrapercity]]<br />
* [[Social Life]]<br />
* [[SocialGO]]<br />
* [[SocialVibe]]<br />
* [[Sonico]]<br />
* [[Stickam]]<br />
* [[Spaces]] (dot ru)<br />
* [[Students Circle Network]]<br />
* [[StudiVZ]]<br />
* [[Supernova.com]]<br />
* [[Tagged]]<br />
* [[TalentTrove]]<br />
* [[Talkbiznow]]<br />
* [[Taltopia]]<br />
* [[Taringa!]]<br />
* [[TeachStreet]]<br />
* [[TermWiki]]<br />
* [[The Sphere]]<br />
* [[TravBuddy.com]]<br />
* [[Travellerspoint]]<br />
* [[tribe.net]]<br />
* [[Trombi.com]]<br />
* [[Tuenti]]<br />
* [[Tumblr]]<br />
* [[UOL K]]<br />
* [[V2V]]<br />
* [[Vampirefreaks.com]]<br />
* [[Viadeo]]<br />
* [[Virb]]<br />
* [[Vkontakte]]<br />
* [[Voobly.com]]<br />
* [[Wakoopa]]<br />
* [[Wallop]]<br />
* [[Wasabi]]<br />
* [[Wattpad]]<br />
* [[WAYN]]<br />
* [[WebBiographies]]<br />
* [[WeeWorld]]<br />
* [[Wellwer]]<br />
* [[WeOurFamily]]<br />
* [[Wepolls.com]]<br />
* [[Wer-kennt-wen]]<br />
* [[weRead]]<br />
* [[Wiser.org]]<br />
* [[Wooxie]]<br />
* [[WorldFriends]]<br />
* [[WriteAPrisoner.com]]<br />
* [[Xanga]]<br />
* [[XING]]<br />
* [[Xt3]]<br />
* [[Ya&#46;ru]]<br />
* [[Yammer]]<br />
* [[Yelp, Inc.]]<br />
* [[Youmeo]]<br />
* [[YuBliss]]<br />
* [[Zoo.gr]]<br />
* [[Zooppa]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
* [[wikipedia:ar:ملحق:قائمة مواقع شبكات اجتماعية]]<br />
* [[wikipedia:en:List of social networking websites]]<br />
* [[wikipedia:hu:Közösségi portálok listája]]<br />
* [[wikipedia:ja:ソーシャル・ネットワーキング・サービスの一覧]]<br />
* [[wikipedia:ml:സാമൂഹ്യക്കൂട്ടായ്മ വെബ്സൈറ്റുകളുടെ പട്ടിക]]<br />
* [[wikipedia:ms:Senarai laman perangkaian sosial]]<br />
* [[wikipedia:pt:Anexo:Lista de redes sociais]]<br />
* [[wikipedia:ru:Список социальных сетей]]<br />
{{Navigation box}}</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Voobly.com&diff=44188Voobly.com2020-04-24T10:29:13Z<p>VADemon: Create</p>
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| title = Voobly.com<br />
| logo = Voobly-logo.png<br />
| image = Voobly.com-main-20200424.png<br />
| description = Main page as a logged in user<br />
| URL = https://www.voobly.com/<br />
| project_status = {{online}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{nosavedyet}}<br />
| source =<br />
| tracker = <br />
| irc = archiveteam<br />
| irc_network = <br />
| lead =<br />
}}<br />
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Voobly.com is an online social network for gamers.<br />
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The website layout probably didn't change since ~2014. There're forums with over 180k posts. Voobly has active Spanish and Turkish communities (website translated) and an Indian community too. Older PC games seem over-represented probably due to their desktop client enabling LAN connecitivity. Income model: premium membership.</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=File:Voobly.com-main-20200424.png&diff=44187File:Voobly.com-main-20200424.png2020-04-24T10:18:48Z<p>VADemon: Screenshot as a logged in user.
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Screenshot as a logged in user.<br />
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<div></div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Epic_War&diff=43096Epic War2020-02-07T13:30:18Z<p>VADemon: finalize create</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Epic War<br />
| logo = Epicwar-logo.jpg<br />
| image = Epicwar-screenshot2020.png<br />
| description = Home page with user maps listing<br />
| URL = https://www.epicwar.com/<br />
| project_status = {{online}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{partiallysaved}}<br />
| source =<br />
| tracker = <br />
| irc = archiveteam<br />
| irc_network = <br />
| lead = VADemon<br />
}}<br />
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Epic War® is a huge database hosting user-created maps for the game Warcraft III. Online since 2004 with over 300,000 user submissions. The site is currently not in danger and the hosting is sufficiently funded by ads on the website.<br />
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== Site structure ==<br />
Each submission (map) gets a unique ID, the metadata page shows a preview, description (extracted from the uploaded file). Only the download links are session-based (generated links, expire after 24h), so a wget mirror will get them fine, but WBM not so much. Maps are hosted on a sub-domain and are only reachable from the metadata pages.<br />
Some maps have been deleted as the website prohibits pornographic content etc.<br />
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Example items (<nowiki>https://www.epicwar.com/maps/<id>/</nowiki>):<br />
* 9980 - exists<br />
* 10000 - deleted<br />
* 110014 - removed (likely a duplicate)<br />
* 270006 - exists, no description<br />
* 113113 - exists, extracted description has buggy line breaks<br />
* 277617 - invalid id<br />
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== Status ==<br />
Approx. 200k maps were mirrored and put up in groups of 10k on Bittorrent in 2016; I'm in the process of fetching the missing pieces, the site admin was pleasant. Once done, I will update this article with a link. I don't see it warranted (as it stands) to put up 400GB+ of this on IA - [[User:VADemon|VADemon]] ([[User talk:VADemon|talk]]) 13:26, 7 February 2020 (UTC)</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Epic_War&diff=43095Epic War2020-02-07T13:28:20Z<p>VADemon: </p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Epic War<br />
| logo = Epicwar-logo.jpg<br />
| image = Epicwar-screenshot2020.png<br />
| description = Home page with user maps listing<br />
| URL = https://www.epicwar.com/<br />
| project_status = {{online}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{partiallysaved}}<br />
| source =<br />
| tracker = <br />
| irc = archiveteam<br />
| irc_network = <br />
| lead = VADemon<br />
}}<br />
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Epic War® is a huge database hosting user-created maps for the game Warcraft III. Online since 2004 with over 300,000 user submissions. The site is currently not in danger and the hosting is sufficiently funded by ads on the website.<br />
<br />
== Site structure ==<br />
Each submission (map) gets a unique ID, the metadata page shows a preview, description (extracted from the uploaded file). Only the download links are session-based (generated links), so a wget mirror will get them fine, but WBM not so much.<br />
Some maps have been deleted as the website prohibits pornographic content etc.<br />
<br />
Example items (<nowiki>https://www.epicwar.com/maps/<id>/</nowiki>):<br />
* 9980 - exists<br />
* 10000 - deleted<br />
* 110014 - removed (likely a duplicate)<br />
* 270006 - exists, no description<br />
* 113113 - exists, extracted description has buggy line breaks<br />
* 277617 - says "invalid id" for a couple submissions in 100k range<br />
<br />
== Status ==<br />
Approx. 200k maps were mirrored and put up in groups of 10k on Bittorrent in 2016; I'm in the process of fetching the missing pieces, the site admin was pleasant. Once done, I will update this article with a link. I don't see it warranted (as it stands) to put up 400GB+ of this on IA - [[User:VADemon|VADemon]] ([[User talk:VADemon|talk]]) 13:26, 7 February 2020 (UTC)</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Epic_War&diff=43094Epic War2020-02-07T13:26:31Z<p>VADemon: create</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Epic War<br />
| logo = Epicwar-logo.jpg<br />
| image = Epicwar-screenshot2020.png<br />
| description = Home page with user maps listing<br />
| URL = https://www.epicwar.com/<br />
| project_status = {{online}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{partiallysaved}}<br />
| source =<br />
| tracker = <br />
| irc = archiveteam<br />
| irc_network = <br />
| lead = VADemon<br />
}}<br />
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Epic War® is a huge database hosting user-created maps for the game Warcraft III. Online since 2004 with over 300,000 user submissions. The site is currently not in danger and the hosting is (partially?) funded by ads on the website.<br />
<br />
== Site structure ==<br />
Each submission (map) gets a unique ID, the metadata page shows a preview, description (extracted from the uploaded file). Only the download links are session-based (generated links), so a wget mirror will get them fine, but WBM not so much.<br />
Some maps have been deleted as the website prohibits pornographic content etc.<br />
<br />
Example items (<nowiki>https://www.epicwar.com/maps/<id>/</nowiki>):<br />
* 9980 - exists<br />
* 10000 - deleted<br />
* 110014 - removed (likely a duplicate)<br />
* 270006 - exists, no description<br />
* 113113 - exists, extracted description has buggy line breaks<br />
* <forgot id> - says "invalid id" for a couple submissions in 100k range<br />
<br />
== Status ==<br />
Approx. 200k maps were mirrored and put up in groups of 10k on Bittorrent in 2016; I'm in the process of fetching the missing pieces, the site admin was pleasant. Once done, I will update this article with a link. I don't see it warranted (as it stands) to put up 400GB+ of this on IA - [[User:VADemon|VADemon]] ([[User talk:VADemon|talk]]) 13:26, 7 February 2020 (UTC)</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=File:Epicwar-logo.jpg&diff=43093File:Epicwar-logo.jpg2020-02-07T13:07:51Z<p>VADemon: </p>
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<div></div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Slyck.com&diff=42579Slyck.com2019-12-13T01:16:22Z<p>VADemon: Slyck overview</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Slyck<br />
| logo = Slyck-logo.jpg<br />
| image = Slyck-screenshot2019.jpg<br />
| description = Slyck homepage, 2019<br />
| URL = http://www.slyck.com/<br />
| project_status = {{online}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{unknown}}<br />
| source =<br />
| tracker = <br />
| irc = archiveteam<br />
| irc_network = <br />
| lead =<br />
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Slyck.com is a website and forums that started in 2001, main interests are internet technology and file sharing news/discussion. The news section on the main page hasn't been updated since 2013. The forums are still fairly active with over 530k posts and 39k topics.<br />
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== Site structure ==<br />
[[phpBB]] is used on forums (looks like an older version). "Slyck news" articles have links to a dedicated forum thread for discussion, "Slyck videos" are direct links to Youtube videos of the person who's behind the website ([https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuA1eldmUAlQyq3udvtGAmw/videos channel]). "Web news" seem to always be excerpts of forum threads started by users.</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=File:Slyck-screenshot2019.jpg&diff=42578File:Slyck-screenshot2019.jpg2019-12-13T01:15:15Z<p>VADemon: 2019.12.13_01-56-01</p>
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<div>== Summary ==<br />
2019.12.13_01-56-01</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=File:Slyck-logo.jpg&diff=42577File:Slyck-logo.jpg2019-12-13T00:56:57Z<p>VADemon: </p>
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<div></div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Your_Shot&diff=41365Your Shot2019-10-09T00:32:11Z<p>VADemon: IRC: Add port number</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = yourshot<br />
| image = Yourshot-logo.png<br />
| description = <br />
| URL = https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/<br />
| project_status = {{online}}<br />
| irc = gotshot@irc.hackint.org:6697<br />
}}<br />
Your Shot is a user contributed photo site run by National Geographic Magazine.<br />
As part of an acquisition of Fox, Disney has 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 />
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=== 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 />
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Need to find:<br />
* Original un-resized images<br />
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=== More content types ===<br />
Any 404 page lists additional content that will need further examination<br />
https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/404<br />
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* Homepage<br />
* Assignments<br />
* Stories<br />
* Photos<br />
* Photographers<br />
* Discussions<br />
* Editor's Blog<br />
* Daily Dozen<br />
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=== Warnings/Caveats/Bugs ===<br />
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* 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 />
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{<br />
"country_code": "AT",<br />
"consent_required": true<br />
} <br />
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=== References ===<br />
* https://yourshot.nationalgeographic.com/discussions/discussion/2376/your-shot-platform-update/p1?new=1</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=File:Phoneky-screenshot.jpg&diff=36185File:Phoneky-screenshot.jpg2019-04-08T11:42:00Z<p>VADemon: 2019-08-04</p>
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<div>== Summary ==<br />
2019-08-04</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Mobiles24.co&diff=36184Mobiles24.co2019-04-08T11:35:18Z<p>VADemon: Create</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = mobiles24.co<br />
| logo = Mobiles24-logo.png<br />
| image = Mobiles24-co screenshot.png<br />
| description = Main page<br />
| URL = http://www.mobiles24.co/<br />
| project_status = {{online}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{unknown}}<br />
| source =<br />
| tracker = <br />
| irc = archiveteam<br />
| lead =<br />
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mobiles24.co is a website primarily hosting files for smartphones and phones: wallpapers, ringtones, videos, APKs and J2ME JARs. The forum still has a high amount of traffic (1600 online as of writing) and reached the peak record on 2019-02-02 with 25800 users.<br />
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== Size estimates ==<br />
* 8.6 million registered users<br />
* 41k threads, 383k posts<br />
* ~635k uploaded files in different categories:<br />
[http://www.mobiles24.co/downloads/s/635544-320-cute_green_frog_dp_keyboard_theme full link] and [http://www.mobiles24.co/downloads/s/635544-320 shortened ID+category] point to the same file</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=File:Mobiles24-logo.png&diff=36183File:Mobiles24-logo.png2019-04-08T11:29:14Z<p>VADemon: </p>
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<div></div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Waper.ru&diff=36162Waper.ru2019-04-08T00:26:24Z<p>VADemon: Created page with "{{Infobox project | title = waper.ru | logo = | image = Waper-ru-screenshot.png | description = waper.ru main page | URL = http://waper.ru/ | project_status = {{endangered}}..."</p>
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = waper.ru<br />
| logo = <br />
| image = Waper-ru-screenshot.png<br />
| description = waper.ru main page<br />
| URL = http://waper.ru/<br />
| project_status = {{endangered}}<br />
| archiving_status = {{unknown}}<br />
| source =<br />
| tracker = <br />
| irc = archiveteam<br />
| lead =<br />
}}<br />
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waper.ru is a russian website for mobile users with a lot of user-generated content. It features communities, forums, photo and video, blogs, anecdotes and uploads. The WAP-version is available under [http://z.waper.ru z.waper.ru]. It has been operating since May 2007, the users are still fairly active, yet the administrator stated in 2015 that he doesn't have time to continue improving the site.<ref>[http://waper.ru/forum/topic/785996 DoS exploit report - forum]</ref> [https://vk.com/club17527101 Official group in VK]<br />
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=== Size estimates ===<br />
* First user, the administrator 2007-05-01: http://waper.ru/user/1<br />
* Last user registered 2019-04-07 as of writing: http://waper.ru/user/343698<br />
* Forum has over 2M messages: http://waper.ru/group/1#forum<br />
* 780000 uploaded pictures, mobile-sized: 156001 pages, with 5 per page: http://waper.ru/file/cat/pic/?page=156001<br />
* 182535 uploaded J2ME .jars<br />
* 151530 upload .mp3<br />
* etc. total 1468880 files</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=File:Waper-ru-screenshot.png&diff=36161File:Waper-ru-screenshot.png2019-04-07T23:55:48Z<p>VADemon: </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 />
| source = [https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam WikiTeam GitHub]<br />
| irc = wikiteam<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 January 2019, WikiTeam has preserved more than 250,000 wikis.<br />
<br />
You can check [https://archive.org/details/wikiteam our collection] at [[Internet Archive]], the [https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam source code] in [[GitHub]] and some [https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Websites/WikiTeam lists of wikis by status] in [[WikiApiary]]. There's also a [https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Category:Website_not_archived list] of not yet archived wikis on WikiApiary.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
The total number of MediaWiki wikis is unknown, but some estimates exist.<br />
<br />
According to [[WikiApiary]], which is the most updated database, there are 21139 independent wikis (1718 are semantic) and 4819 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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
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 />
<br />
A number of [[#Wikifarms|wikifarms]] have vanished and about 150 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 (40 million), English Wikipedia (37 million), DailyWeeKee (35 million), WikiBusiness (22 million) and Wikidata (19 million).<br />
* By number of files: Wikimedia Commons (28 million), English Wikipedia (800,000).<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
As of January 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 />
<br />
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]) || 8 || {{green|Online}} || 0<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=battlestarwikiorg%20subject%3Awikiteam battlestarwikiorg - dumps]</ref> || <br />
|-<br />
| [[BluWiki]] ([http://wayback.archive.org/web/20090301060338/http://bluwiki.com/go/Main_Page site]) || ? || {{red|Offline}} || ~20<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=bluwiki%20subject%3Awikiteam bluwiki - dumps]</ref> || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Communpedia]] ([https://wikiapiary.com/wiki/Communpedia_%28ru%29 site]) || 5 || {{yellow|Unestable}} || 4<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Comunpedia%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22Communpedia%22%20OR%20subject%3A%22kommynistru%22 communpedia - dumps]</ref><br />
|-<br />
| [[EditThis]] ([http://editthis.info site]) || 1,350<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/editthis.info editthis.info - list of wikis]</ref> || {{yellow|Unstable}} || 1307+ (IA: 1,297<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=editthisinfo%20subject%3Awikiteam editthis.info - dumps]</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><br />
|-<br />
| [[elwiki.com]] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20070917110429/http://www.elwiki.com/ site]) || Unknown<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/elwiki.com elwiki.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{red|Offline}} || 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 />
| [[Miraheze]] ([https://meta.miraheze.org site]) || 2319 || {{green|Online}} || 685 [outdated] || Non-profit. Dumps were made in September 2016.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Neoseeker.com]] ([https://neowiki.neoseeker.com site])|| 229<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/neoseeker.com neoseeker.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{green|Online}} || 159<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=neoseeker+subject%3Awikiteam neoseeker.com - dumps]</ref> || Check why there are dozens of wikis without dump.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Orain]] ([https://meta.orain.org site]) || 425<ref>[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/orain.org orain.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{red|Offline}} || ~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]) || 156<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/referata.com referata.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{green|Online}} || ~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]) || 119<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/scribblewiki.com scribblewiki.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{red|Offline}} || 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]) || 1,879<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/shoutwiki.com shoutwiki.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{green|Online}} || ~1,300<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=shoutwiki%20subject%3Awikiteam shoutwiki.com - dumps]</ref><ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/shoutwiki.com ShoutWiki wikifarm dump]</ref> || Check why there are dozens of wikis without dump.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Sourceforge]] || ? || {{green|Online}} || 315<ref>[https://archive.org/search.php?query=sourceforge%20subject%3Awikiteam sourceforge - dumps]</ref> || <br />
|-<br />
| [[TropicalWikis]] ([http://tropicalwikis.com site]) || 187<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/tropicalwikis.com tropicalwikis.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{red|Offline}} || 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]) || ? || {{red|Offline}} || ? || Non-MediaWiki.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Wiki-Site]] ([http://www.wiki-site.com site]) || 5,839<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/wiki-site.com wiki-site.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{green|Online}} || 367 || No uploaded dumps yet.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Wikia]] ([http://www.wikia.com site]) || 400,000<ref>[https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/blob/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/wikia.com wikia.com - list of wikis]</ref> || {{green|Online}} || 300k+ || [http://community.wikia.com/wiki/Help:Database_download Help:Database download], [https://github.com/Wikia/app/tree/dev/extensions/wikia/WikiFactory/Dumps Their dumping code]<br />
|-<br />
| [[WikiHub]] ([http://wikihub.ssu.lt site]) || ? || {{red|Offline}} || 7<ref>[https://archive.org/details/wikifarm-wikihub.ssu.lt-20131110 wikihub - dumps]</ref> || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Wiki.Wiki]] ([https://wiki.wiki site]) || 100<ref>[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/master/listsofwikis/mediawiki/wiki.wiki wiki.wiki - list of wikis]</ref> || {{green|Online}} || ? || <br />
|-<br />
| [[Wikkii]] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20140621054654/http://wikkii.com/wiki/Free_Wiki_Hosting site]) || 3,267 || {{red|Offline}} || 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]) || ? || {{red|Offline}} || ? || <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 the #wikiteam channel if it's particularly urgent. Remember that there are thousands of wikis we don't even know about yet.<br />
<br />
[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 />
<br />
Examples of huge wikis:<br />
<br />
* '''[[Wikipedia]]''' - arguably the largest and one of the oldest wikis on the planet. It offers public backups (also for sister projects): http://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: http://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=http://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 />
<br />
== 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 />
<br />
For a manually curated list, [https://github.com/WikiTeam/wikiteam/wiki/Available-Backups visit the download section] on GitHub.<br />
<br />
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 />
<br />
=== Tips ===<br />
Some tips:<br />
* When downloading Wikipedia/Wikimedia Commons dumps, pages-meta-history.xml.7z and pages-meta-history.xml.bz2 are the same, but 7z use to be smaller (better compress ratio), so use 7z.<br />
* 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 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 />
<br />
=== 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 />
<br />
=== 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 />
<br />
== 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 />
<br />
== References ==<br />
<references/><br />
<br />
== External links ==<br />
* http://wikiindex.org - A lot of wikis to save<br />
* http://wiki1001.com/ offline?<br />
<br />
* http://s23.org/wikistats/<br />
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_farms<br />
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Emijrp/Wikipedia_Archive<br />
* http://blog.shoutwiki.com/<br />
* http://wikiheaven.blogspot.com/<br />
<br />
{{wikis}}<br />
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[[Category:Archive Team]]<br />
[[Category:Wikis| ]]</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Valhalla&diff=36028Valhalla2019-04-03T00:04:06Z<p>VADemon: /* Software Options */ Resilio Sync/BT Sync performance</p>
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<div>[[Image:Ms internet on a disc.jpg|300px|right]]<br />
This wiki page is a collection of ideas for Project '''Valhalla'''.<br />
<br />
This project/discussion has come around because there is a class of data currently existing, several times a year, as a massive amount of data with "large, but nominal" status within the Internet Archive. The largest example is currently MobileMe, which is hundreds of terabytes in the Internet Archive system (and in need of WARC conversion), which represents a cost amount far outstripping its use. Another is TwitPic, which is currently available (and might continue to be available) but which has shown itself to be a bad actor with regards to longevity and predictability for its sunset. <br />
<br />
Therefore, there is an argument that there could be a "third place" that data collected by Archive Team could sit, until the Internet Archive (or another entity) grows its coffers/storage enough that 80-100tb is "no big deal", just like 1tb of data was annoying in 2009 and now is totally understandable for the value, i.e. Geocities. <br />
<br />
This is for short-term (or potentially also long-term) storage options, say five years or less, of data generated by Archive Team.<br />
<br />
* What options are out there, generally?<br />
* What are the costs, roughly?<br />
* What are the positives and negatives?<br />
<br />
There has been a lot of study in this area over the years, of course, so links to known authorities and debates will be welcome as well.<br />
<br />
Join the discussion in [irc://irc.efnet.org/huntinggrounds #huntinggrounds].<br />
<br />
== Goals ==<br />
<br />
We want to:<br />
<br />
* Dump an unlimited<ref>Unlimited doesn't mean infinite, but it does mean that we shouldn't worry about running out of space. We won't be the only expanding data store.</ref> amount of data into something.<br />
* Recover that data at any point.<br />
<br />
We do not care about:<br />
<br />
* Immediate or continuous availability.<br />
<br />
We absolutely require:<br />
<br />
* Low (ideally, zero) human time for maintenance. If we have substantial human maintenance needs, we're probably going to need a Committee of Elders or something.<br />
* Data integrity. The storage medium must be impossibly durable or make it inexpensive/easy to copy and verify the data onto a fresh medium.<br />
<br />
It would be nice to have:<br />
<br />
* No special environmental requirements that could not be handled by a third party. (So nobody in Archive Team would have to set up some sort of climate-controlled data-cave; however, if this is already something that e.g. IA does and they are willing to lease space, that's cool.)<br />
<br />
== What does the Internet Archive do for this Situation, Anyway? ==<br />
<br />
''This section has not been cleared by the Internet Archive, and so should be considered a rough sketch.''<br />
<br />
The Internet Archive primarily wants "access" to the data it stores, so the primary storage methodology is spinning hard drives connected to a high-speed connection from multiple locations. These hard drives are between 4-6tb (as of 2014) and are of general grade, as is most of the hardware - the theory is that replacing cheap hardware is better than spending a lot of money on super-grade hardware (whatever that may be) and not being able to make the dollars stretch. Hundreds of drives die in a month and the resiliency of the system allows them all to hot-swap in replacements. <br />
<br />
There are multiple warehouses for storing the original books that are scanned, as well as materials like CD-ROMs and even hard drives. There are collections of tapes and CD-ROMs from previous iterations of storage, although they are thought of as drop-dead options instead of long-term archival storage - the preference is, first and foremost, the spinning hard drives.<br />
<br />
The Archive does not generally use tape technology, having run into the classic "whoops, no tape drive on earth reads these any more" and "whoops, this tape no longer works properly".<br />
<br />
The Archive has indicated that if Archive Team uses a physical storage method, such as tapes, paper, hard drives or anything else, that they are willing to store these materials "as long as they are exceedingly labelled".<br />
<br />
== Physical Options ==<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Storage type<br />
! Cost ($/TB/year)<br />
! Storage density (m³/TB)<br />
! Theoretical lifespan<br />
! Practical, tested lifespan<br />
! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| Hard drives (simple distributed pool)<br />
| $17 - $22 (8TB or 4TB external WD MyBook)<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| December 2018, best reasonable 1TB+ external HD is [http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-external-desktop-hard-drive/ a 4TB WD]. 25+ pool members would need one HD each plus a computer plus software to distribute data across the entire pool.<br />
|-<br />
| Hard drives (dedicated distributed pool)<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| An off-the-shelf or otherwise specified, dedicated, network storage device used exclusively as part of a distributed pool.<br />
|-<br />
| Hard drives (SPOF) <ref>The [[Internet Archive]]'s cost per TB, with 24/7 online hard drives, is approximately $2000 for forever.</ref><br />
| $37 - $44 (but you have to buy 240TB - 480TB)<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| For a single location to provide all storage needs, building a [https://www.backblaze.com/blog/open-source-data-storage-server/ Backblaze Storage Pod 6.0] runs an average of $10,364, providing 240TB of [http://bioteam.net/2011/08/why-you-should-never-build-a-backblaze-pod/ non-redundant, not-highly-available] storage. (You really want more than one pod mirroring your data, but this is the most effective way to get that much storage in one place.)<br />
|-<br />
| Commercial / archival-grade tapes<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| Consumer tape systems (VHS, Betamax, cassette tapes, ...)<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| Vinyl<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| [http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/index.html PaperBack]<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| 500KB per letter sheet means 1TB is 2,199,024 sheets, or ~4400 reams (500 sheets each), or an 8'x16' room filled with 6' tall stacks. It would take 63.6 days of continuous printing to do this.<ref>A HP LaserJet 5Si printing 24 pages per minute which generates the 500K bytes per page, yielding approximately 200,000 bytes per second.</ref><br />
|-<br />
| [http://ronja.twibright.com/optar/ Optar]<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| At 200KB per page, this has less than half the storage density of Paperback.<br />
|-<br />
| Blu-Ray<br />
| $40 (50 pack spindle of 25GB BD-Rs)<br />
| <br />
| 30 years<ref>On the basis of the described studies and assuming adequate consideration of the specified conditions for storage and handling, as well as verification of data after writing, we estimate the Imation CD, DVD or Blu-ray media to have a theoretical readability of up to 30 years. The primary caveat is how you handle and store the media. http://support.tdkperformance.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1685/~/life-expectancy-of-optical-media </ref><br />
| <br />
| Lasts a LOT longer than CD/DVD, but should not be assumed to last more than a decade. [http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/01/why-facebook-thinks-blu-ray-discs-are-perfect-for-the-data-center/ Raidz3 with Blu-rays Doing a backup in groups of 15 disks]. Comes to under $.04/GB which is cheap, and low initial investment (drives) too!<br><br />
<br>Specifically, a 50pack spindle of 25GB BD-Rs could readily hold 1TB of data for $30-50 per spindle. 50GB and 100GB discs are more expensive per GB.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-DISC M-DISC]<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| Unproven technology, but potentially interesting.<br />
|-<br />
| Flash media<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| Very durable for online use, and usually fails from lots of writes. A drive might never wear out from cold-storage usage. Newer drives can have 10-year warranties. But capacitors may leak charge over time. JEDEC JESD218A only specifies 101 weeks (almost two years) retention without power, so we'd have to check the spec of the specific drives, or power them up and re-write the data to refresh it about once a year. Soliciting donations for old flash media from people, or sponsorship from flash companies?<br />
|-<br />
| Glass/metal etching<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| Amazon Glacier<br />
| $49.15 (storage only, retrieval billed separately)<br />
| <br />
| average annual durability of 99.999999999% <ref>"Amazon Glacier is designed to provide average annual durability of 99.999999999% for an archive. The service redundantly stores data in multiple facilities and on multiple devices within each facility. To increase durability, Amazon Glacier synchronously stores your data across multiple facilities before returning SUCCESS on uploading archives. Glacier performs regular, systematic data integrity checks and is built to be automatically self-healing." Maciej Ceglowski thinks that's [https://blog.pinboard.in/2014/04/cloudy_snake_oil/ kinda bullshit compared to the failure events you don't plan for], of course.</ref><br />
| <br />
| Retrieval is billed separately. Free to S3 or CloudFront. $50-$100/TB otherwise. Outdated?-> Data can be copied out from S3 to a SATA HD for $2.50/hr. plus media handling and shipping fees. Downloading 5TB from S3 would cost $614.40 (~$122.88/TB), but only $44.82 to transfer to HD via USB 3 or SATA (USB 2 is slower).<br />
|-<br />
|Amazon Glacier Deep Archive<br />
|$12.16 (storage only, retrieval billed separately)<br />
|<br />
|99.99999999999% <br />
|<br />
|Not published yet, 2019.<br />
|-<br />
|BackBlaze<br />
|$61.44<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|$10 retrieval<br />
|-<br />
| Dropbox for Business<br />
| ~ $15 ("as much as you need" for $720/year, with soft caps)<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| Dropbox for Business Advanced is currently billed at $20 per user per month, with a minimum of 3 users, for "as much as you need" storage. They'll probably get cranky as we near 50/100TB though.<br />
|-<br />
| Box.com for Business<br />
| $180* ("unlimited" storage for $900/year)<br />
| <br />
| <br />
| <br />
| Box.com for Business provides "unlimited" storage at $15/user/month, five user minimum, or $900/year.<br />
|-<br />
| Google Apps Unlimited<br />
| $120* ("unlimited" storage for $600/year, free for Google Apps for Education/Nonprofits)<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
| Google Apps Unlimited, Google Apps for Education and Google Apps for Nonprofits provide 1TB of storage per user for domains with less than 5 users, and "unlimited" storage for domains with five or more users. Google Apps Unlimited starts at $10/user/month, and at least $600/year for unlimited storage. Google Apps for Education and Nonprofits is free but requires fulfillment of certain criteria, such as being a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.<br />
|-<br />
| Dedicated colocated storage servers<br />
| $100* (e.g. $1300 for one year of 12TB rackmount server rental)<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
| Rent [http://www.ovh.com/us/dedicated-servers/storage/ storage servers from managed hosting colocation providers], and pool data across them. Benefits include bandwidth and electricity being included in the cost, and files could be made available online immediately. Negatives include needing to administer tens of servers.<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Software Options ==<br />
<br />
Some of the physical options require supporting software.<br />
<br />
Removable media requires a centralized index of who has what discs, where they are, how they are labeled, and what the process for retrieval/distribution is. It could just be a wiki page, but it does require something.<br />
<br />
A simple pool of HDs ("simple pool"), one without a shared filesystem, just people offering up HDs, requires software running on Windows, Linux and/or Mac hardware to allow Archive Team workers to learn who has free disk space, and to save content to those disks. This could be just an IRC conversation and SFTP, but the more centralized and automated, the more likely available disk space will be able to be utilized. Software that is not cross-platform cannot be used here.<br />
<br />
A simple distributed and redundant pool of HDs ("distributed pool") requires software running on Windows, Linux and Mac hardware to manage a global filesystem or object store, and distribute uploads across the entire pool of available space, and make multiple copies on an ongoing basis to ensure preservation of data if a pool member goes offline. This has to be automated and relatively maintenance-free, and ideally low-impact on CPU and memory if it will be running on personal machines with multi-TB USB drives hanging off them. Software that is not cross-platform cannot be used here.<br />
<br />
A dedicated distributed and redundant pool of HDs ("dedicated pool") requires a selection of dedicated hardware and disks for maximum availability, and software to run on that hardware to manage a global filesystem or object store. It has to be automated and relatively maintenance-free, but would be the only thing running on its dedicated hardware, and as such does not have to be cross-platform.<br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable sortable"<br />
! Software name<br />
! Filesystem or Object Store?<br />
! Platform(s)<br />
! License<br />
! Good for which pool?<br />
! Pros<br />
! Cons<br />
! Notes<br />
|-<br />
| Tahoe-LAFS<br />
| Filesystem<br />
| Windows, Mac, Linux<br />
| GPL 2+<br />
| Distributed, dedicated<br />
| Uses what people already have, can spread expenses out, could be a solution done with only software<br />
| Barrier to leaving is non-existent, might cause data-loss even with auto-fixing infrastructure. Too slow to be a primary offloading site. <ref>"Practically the following results have been reported: 16Mbps in throughput for writing and about 8.8Mbps in reading" -- from https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/wiki/FAQ, making it non-competitive with the 1-2 gigabit speeds needed when archiving twitch.tv.</ref><br />
| Accounting is experimental, meaning "in practice is that anybody running a storage node can also automatically shove shit onto it, with no way to track down who uploaded how much or where or what it is" -joepie91 on IRC<br />
|-<br />
| Ceph<br />
| Object store, Filesystem<br />
| Linux<br />
| LGPL<br />
| Dedicated<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| GlusterFS<br />
| Filesystem<br />
| Linux, BSD, OpenSolaris<br />
| GPL 3<br />
| Dedicated<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| Gfarm<br />
| Filesystem<br />
| Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris<br />
| X11<br />
| Dedicated<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| Quantcast<br />
| Filesystem<br />
| Linux<br />
| Apache<br />
| Dedicated<br />
|<br />
| Like HDFS, intended for MapReduce processing, which writes large files, and doesn't delete them. Random access and erasing or moving data around may not be performant.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| GlusterFS<br />
| Filesystem<br />
| Mac, Linux, BSD, Solaris<br />
| GPL 3<br />
| Dedicated<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| HDFS<br />
| Filesystem<br />
| Java<br />
| Apache<br />
| Distributed, dedicated<br />
|<br />
| Like Quantcast, intended for MapReduce processing, which writes large files, and doesn't delete them. Random access and erasing or moving data around may not be performant.<br />
| <br />
|-<br />
| XtreemFS<br />
| Filesystem<br />
| Linux, Solaris<br />
| BSD<br />
| Dedicated<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| MogileFS<br />
| Object store<br />
| Linux<br />
| GPL<br />
| Dedicated<br />
| Understands distributing files across multiple networks, not just multiple disks<br />
|<br />
| As an object store, you can't just mount it as a disk and dump files onto it, you have to push them into it through its API, and retrieve them the same way.<br />
|-<br />
| Riak CS<br />
| Object store<br />
| Mac, Linux, BSD<br />
| Apache<br />
| Dedicated<br />
| S3 API compatible<br />
| Multi-datacenter replication (which might be what you consider having multiple disparate users on different networks) is only available in the commercial offering.<br />
| A former Basho employee suggests this might not be a good fit due to the high latency and unstable connections we'd be dealing with. Datacenter-to-datacenter sync is an "entirely different implementation" than local replication, and would require the enterprise offering.<br />
|-<br />
| MongoDB GridFS<br />
| Object store<br />
| Windows, Mac, Linux<br />
| AGPL<br />
| Distributed, dedicated<br />
|<br />
| MongoDB fares poorly at data integrity, performance is dubious, and scaling is a nightmare. Not recommended.<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| LeoFS<br />
| Object store<br />
| Mac, Linux<br />
| Apache<br />
| Dedicated<br />
| S3-compatible interface, beta NFS interface, supports multi-datacenter replication, designed with GUI administration in mind<br />
|<br />
|<br />
|-<br />
| Resilio Sync (BitTorrent Sync)<br />
| Synchronization<br />
| Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, NAS<br />
| Proprietary<br />
| Simple<br />
| Commercially supported software<br />
| As straight synchronization software, it mirrors folders across devices. Individual users would have to make synched folders available to get copies of archives, and then they would be mirrored, and that's it.<br />
| Poor performance with large files (10 GB+) in large folders (200 GB+).<br />
Synchronization software in general is not the right solution for this problem.<br />
|-<br />
| [http://syncthing.net/ Syncthing]<br />
| Synchronization<br />
| Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, NAS<br />
| GPL<br />
| Simple<br />
| Open Source Software, active Developement, individual rights<br />
| As straight synchronization software, it mirrors folders across devices. Individual users would have to make synched folders available to get copies of archives, and then they would be mirrored, and that's it. Rightsmanagment allows to only download but not change the files in the cloud.<br />
| Synchronization software in general is not the right solution for this problem.<br />
|-<br />
| BitTorrent<br />
| Filesystem<br />
| All<br />
| various<br />
| Distributed<br />
| Readily available technology, easily understood distribution model, contributors can join or leave at any time<br />
| Harder to get people interested in contribute if they have to join bittorrent swarms<br />
| Breaking a large item up into smaller torrents makes contributing smaller chunks of space possible, and a custom client could be created which would let the user dedicate some space and automatically join the swarms which have the fewest peers. Getting the initial seeds requires coordination to distribute the data across available seeds by other means, creating the sub-torrents, etc.<br />
|-<br />
| Git Annex<br />
| Filesystem<br />
| linux, mac, windows, android (in that order)<br />
| GPL (mostly)<br />
| Distributed<br />
| Once you join a repository (by using git clone), you can choose which of the files within that repository you will actually store locally.<br />
| Pretty complicated to use on the command-line; git annex assistant isn't quite geared for this use-case but could handle it anyway.<br />
| [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK/git-annex_implementation]]<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Non-options ==<br />
* Ink-based Consumer Optical Media (CDs, DVD, etc.) <br />
** Differences between Blu-Ray and DVD? DVDs do not last very long. The fact is, the history of optical writable media has been on of chicanery, failure, and overpromising while under-delivering. Some DVDs failed within a year. There are claims Blu-Ray is different, but fool me 3,504 times, shame on me.<br />
* Resilio Sync (BitTorrent Sync)<br />
** Proprietary (currently), so not a good idea to use as an archival format/platform<br />
* Amazon S3 / Google Cloud Storage / Microsoft Azure Storage<br />
** Amazon S3 might be a viable waypoint for intra-month storage ($30.68/TB), but retrieval over the internet, as with Glacier, is expensive, $8499.08 for 100TB. Google's and Microsoft's offerings are all in the same price range.<br />
* Floppies<br />
** ''"Because 1.4 trillion floppies exists less than 700 billion floppies. HYPOTHETICALLY, if you set twenty stacks side by side, figure a quarter centimeter per floppy thickness, excluded the size of the drive needed to read the floppies you would still need a structure 175,000 ft. high to house them. Let's also assume that the failure rate for floppies is about 5% (everyone knows that varies by brand, usage, time of manufacture, materials used, etc, but lets say 5% per year). 70 million of those 1.4 trillion floppies are unusuable. Figuring 1.4 MB per floppy disk, you are losing approximately 100MB of porn each year. Assuming it takes 5 seconds to replace a bad floppy, you would have to spend 97,222 hrs/yr to replace them. Considering there are only 8,760 hrs per year, you would require a staff of 12 people replacing floppies around the clock or 24 people on 12 hr shifts. Figuring $7/hr you would spend $367,920 on labor alone. Figuring a nickel per bad floppy, you would need $3,500,000 annually in floppy disks, bringing your 1TB floppy raid operating costs (excluding electricity, etc) to $3,867, 920 and a whole landfill of corrupted porn. Thank you for destroying the planet and bankrupting a small country with your floppy based porn RAID."'' ([http://gizmodo.com/5431497/why-its-better-to-pretend-you-dont-know-anything-about-computers?comment=17793028#comments source])<br />
<br />
== Alternatives ==<br />
<br />
For completeness sake:<br />
<br />
* Fund raising. If IA had more donations coming in then the problem would be less important.<br />
* Grant writing. A more formal form of fund raising, but most grant writers would expect the grantee to be doing the work. Works well in combination with the other methods mentioned above.<br />
* Better accessibility. If the problem is that these archives are simultaneously large and infrequently accessed, then making them more accessible would make the size easier to swallow.<br />
<br />
== From IRC ==<br />
<br />
<Drevkevac> we are looking to store 100TB+ of media offline for 25+ years<br />
<Drevkevac> if anyone wants to drop in, I will pastebin the chat log<br />
<rat> DVDR and BR-R are not high volume. When you have massive amounts of data, raid arrays have too many points of failure.<br />
<rat> Drevkevac: I work in a tv studio. We have 30+ years worth of tapes. And all of them are still good.<br />
<rat> find a hard drive from 30 years ago and see how well it hooks up ;)<br />
<brousch_> 1500 Taiyo Yuden Gold CD-Rs http://www.mediasupply.com/taiyo-yuden-gold-cd-rs.html<br />
<br />
<Drevkevac> still, if its true, you could do, perhaps, raidz3s in groups of 15 disks or so?<br />
<SketchCow> Please add paperbak to the wiki page.<br />
<SketchCow> Fuck Optical Media. not an option;.<br />
<Drevkevac> that would give you ~300GB per disk group, with 3 disks<br />
<br />
== Where are you going to put it? ==<br />
<br />
Okay, so you have the tech. Now you need a place for it to live.<br />
<br />
Possibilities:<br />
<br />
* The Internet Archive Physical Warehouse, Richmond, CA<br />
** The Internet Archive has several physical storage facilities, including warehouses in Richmond, CA (home of the Physical Archive) and the main location in San Francisco, CA. They have indicated they are willing to take copies of Archive Team-sponsored physical materials with the intent of them being ingested into the Archive at large over time, as costs lower and 100tb collections are not as big a drain (or a rash of funding arrives elsewhere).<br />
<br />
* Living Computer Museum, Seattle, WA<br />
** In discussions with Jason Scott, the Living Computer Museum has indicated they will have physical storage available for computer historical materials. Depending on the items being saved by Archive Team, they may be willing to host/hold copies for the forseable future.<br />
<br />
* Library of Congress, Washington, DC<br />
** The Library of Congress may be willing to take a donation of physical storage, although it is not indicated what they may do long-term with it.<br />
<br />
Multiple copies would of course be great.<br />
<br />
== No, seriously, how are you going to actually DO it ==<br />
<br />
There are only a few practical hardware+software+process combinations. In order of cost to each volunteer:<br />
<br />
* A pool of volunteers with Blu-ray burners commit to ("the Blu-ray option"): <br />
** buying a 50-disc spindle of 25GB discs per TB per project,<br />
** burning them,<br />
** verifying them,<br />
** storing them somewhere climate-controlled (a shelf in a house with AC and heat is fine, an attic/garage/flooded basement is not),<br />
** verifying them regularly (monthly? quarterly?) and replacing discs if necessary, and<br />
** shipping them somewhere else upon request, with no expectation of return (permanent storage, consolidation, etc.).<br />
<br />
This probably requires a minimum of three volunteers per TB per project. Probably best to pre-split the data into < 25GB chunks so each disc can be labeled the same and expected to have the same data on it. Fifty 25GB discs is a little more than a TB, and it's expected you'll lose a few to bad burns each time, but it might be worth buying more than a spindle and generating parity files onto additional discs.<br />
<br />
* A pool of volunteers commit to ("the simple pool"):<br />
** buying a best reasonable external HD,<br />
** downloading archives to it,<br />
** keeping it spun up, or spinning it up regularly (monthly? quarterly?) and running filesystem and content checks on it,<br />
** storing it somewhere climate-controlled (a shelf in a house with AC and heat is fine, an attic/garage/flooded basement is not),<br />
** buying additional HDs once it's full or if there are drive errors, and<br />
** shipping it somewhere else upon request, with no expectation of return (permanent storage, consolidation, etc.).<br />
<br />
Same as with Blu-rays, and not really any more expensive ($150 == $37.50 for one 1TB of Blu-rays * 4, or one 4TB HD), except look at all that disc-swapping time and effort you don't have to do. You don't have to split data into chunks, but you do want to download it in a resumable fashion and verify it afterwards, so, checksums, parity files, something. You also risk losing a lot more if a drive fails, and the cost per-volunteer is higher (replacing a whole drive versus replacing individual discs or spindles). As such, you still probably want a minimum of three volunteers per TB per project (so a 2TB project needs six volunteers with 1TB each, not three volunteers holding all 2TB each).<br />
<br />
* A pool of volunteers commit to ("the distributed pool"):<br />
** all buying the same, standard, inexpensive, hackable, RAID 1, NAS,<br />
*** WD My Cloud Mirror (starts at $300 for 2TB [called "4TB," only 2TB with mirroring])<br />
*** QNAP (2-bay starts at $140 without HDs)<br />
*** Synology (2-bay starts at $200 without HDs)<br />
*** Pogoplug Series 4 + two best reasonable external HD + software RAID 1, or a download script that manually mirrors files ($20 without HDs)<br />
** keeping it spun up, online, and possibly accessible by external AT admins,<br />
** storing it somewhere climate-controlled (a shelf in a house with AC and heat is fine, an attic/garage/flooded basement is not),<br />
** buying entire additional units once they are full or if there are drive errors, and<br />
** shipping the drives (or the entire My Cloud Mirror unit, if that's the one selected) somewhere else upon request, with no expectation of return (permanent storage, consolidation, etc.).<br />
<br />
These units provide dramatically improved reliability for content, enough that perhaps you only need two volunteers per project, and no need to split by TB, since each volunteer would have two copies. Having everyone buy the same hardware means reduced administration time overall, especially if custom scripts are involved. QNAP and Synology both have official SDKs, and all of them run some flavor of Linux, with Synology supporting SSH logins out of the box. The Pogoplug is the most underpowered of the options, but even it should be powerful enough to run a MogileFS storage node, or a script that downloads to one HD and copies to the other. (Checksums would be really slow, though.) This is moderately expensive per-volunteer, with an upfront cost of $320-$500.<br />
<br />
Consumer NAS devices have severe firmware issues, potentially causing full data loss on a trivial operation. Such a case was previously observed after flashing a new official firmware image onto a QNAP Pro series 4 bay NAS (700€ empty) while the RAID was presumably resyncing. It has to be expected that the device prefers reinitialization over being stuck with an error.<br />
<br />
HDD compatibility is limited and has needs close investigation, WD Green 2TB for example tend to frequently degrade the RAID array and accumulate load cycles from frequent head parking.<br />
<br />
* A pool of volunteers commit to ("the dedicated pool"):<br />
** all buying the same, standard, expensive NAS,<br />
*** iXsystems FreeNAS Mini (starts at $1000 without HDs),<br />
*** A DIY FreeNAS box ($300+ without HDs),<br />
*** A DIY NexentaStor box (probably the same as the DIY FreeNAS box)<br />
** keeping it spun up, online, and possibly accessible by external AT admins,<br />
** storing it somewhere climate-controlled and well-ventilated (a shelf with no airflow is not fine),<br />
** replacing drives if there are drive errors,<br />
** migrating the pool to larger disks once it starts getting full, and<br />
** shipping the drives somewhere else upon request, with no expectation of return (permanent storage, consolidation, etc.).<br />
<br />
A set of volunteers with (comparatively) expensive network-attached storage gives you a lot of storage in a lot of locations, potentially tens of redundant TB in each one, depending on the size of the chassis. You want everyone running the same NAS software, but the hardware can vary somewhat; however, the hardware should all have ECC RAM, and the more the better. MogileFS storage nodes are known to run on NexentaStor, and FreeNAS supports plugins, so it could be adapted to run there, or you could figure out e.g. LeoFS (which also expects ZFS). This is the most expensive option per-volunteer, upfront costs starting at around $1300 for a DIY box with four 4TB WD Red drives.<br />
<br />
* A pool of volunteers set up a recurring payment to fund ("the server option"):<br />
** one or more rented, managed, storage servers; or<br />
** saving up to buy one or more storage servers, and then hosting it somewhere.<br />
<br />
A rented server has no hardware maintenance costs; replacing a failed HD is the responsibility of the hosting provider, both in terms of materials cost and in labor cost. This is not the case with a purchased server, where someone would have to buy a replacement hard drive, bring it to the colocation center, and replace the drive; or someone would have to buy a replacement disk, ship it to the colocation center, and then they would bill someone for the labor involved in replacing it.<br />
<br />
== What Can You Contribute? == <br />
<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
! Name<br />
! What You Can Contribute<br />
! For How Long?<br />
! Exit Strategy<br />
|-<br />
| ExampleArchiver<br />
| Describe what you are willing to buy/build/write/do. Talk about the connection you would use, the storage conditions, etc. How much money can you put into it? <br />
| For how long can you truly commit to this?<br />
| If you need to quit or wind down your contribution, what are you willing to do? Can you guarantee a period of notice? Are you willing to ship your hardware or media to another volunteer anywhere in the world, or will you want to keep it? <br />
|-<br />
| vitorio<br />
|<br />
* Participating in the simple pool (I only have a laptop, so I'd store the HDs offline at home and check them monthly/quarterly)<br />
* Participating in the distributed pool (residential 30/10 connection)<br />
* Contributing $100/mo. for the server option<br />
| Indefinitely<br />
| Can give ample notice for either full upload and/or shipping of all hardware anywhere in the world.<br />
|-<br />
| pluesch<br />
|<br />
* Willing to provide 12 TB storage space (3x 4TB drives) on a rented ovh.com server; Access via SSH; Uploaded stuff can be made available via Rsync and HTTP<br />
| As long as I have a job. It's a very stable position atm.<br />
| If I can't provide the storage anymore I'll inform archiveteam at least 3 months before.<br />
|-<br />
|}<br />
<br />
== Project-specific suggestions ==<br />
<br />
=== Twitch.tv (and other video services) ===<br />
<br />
* Keep the original video files in (semi-)offline storage, and store transcoded (compressed) versions on the Internet Archive.<br />
<br />
== See Also ==<br />
* [[Storage Media]]<br />
* [[INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK]]<br />
* [[Places to store data]]<br />
<br />
== References ==<br />
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<div>Assorted mentions of the [[Archive Team]] in major media, in descending chronological order:<br />
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;[https://mashable.com/article/google-plus-internet-archive/?europe=true ''The race to preserve (almost) everything on Google+ before it shuts down'']<br />
:Matt Binder, ''Mashable'', 2019-03-18<br />
;[https://gizmodo.com/delete-never-the-digital-hoarders-who-collect-tumblrs-1832900423 ''Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files'']<br />
:Steven Melendez, ''Gizmodo'', 2019-03-04<br />
;[https://boingboing.net/2018/12/19/burning-the-library-2.html ''Before Tumblr switched off access to NSFW blogs, it blocked archivists who were trying to preserve them'']<br />
:Cory Doctorow, ''Boing Boing'', 2018-12-19<br />
;[https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tumblr-archive-team-blocked-blogs-nsfw-ban/ ''Tumblr reportedly blocked archivists from saving blogs before the NSFW purge'']<br />
:Ana Valens, ''The Daily Dot'', 2018-12-19<br />
;[https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3bekm/archivists-say-tumblr-ip-banned-them-for-trying-to-preserve-adult-content ''Archivists Say Tumblr IP Banned Them For Trying to Preserve Adult Content'']<br />
:Samantha Cole, ''Motherboard'', 2018-12-19<br />
;[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181216/22420341242/as-final-fuck-you-to-free-speech-tumblr-verizon-blocked-archivists.shtml ''As A Final Fuck You To Free Speech On Tumblr, Verizon Blocked Archivists'']<br />
:Mike Masnick, ''Techdirt'', 2018-12-18<br />
;[https://www.fastcompany.com/90279321/the-frantic-unprecedented-race-to-save-700000-nsfw-tumblr-for-posterity ''The frantic, unprecedented race to save 700,000 NSFW Tumblrs for posterity'']<br />
:Sean Captain, ''Fast Company'', 2018-12-12<br />
;[http://meiobit.com/378285/archiverse-banco-de-dados-do-miiverse-criado-por-fas-entra-no-ar-site-conta-17-tb-dados-da-rede-social-wii-u-e-3ds-nintendo-fechou-em-2017/ ''Grupo de fãs e engenheiros conseguiu salvar o Miiverse do amargo fim'']<br />
:Ronaldo Gogoni, ''Meio Bit'', 2018-01-05<br />
;[https://www.christianpost.com/news/searchable-miiverse-archive-released-by-fans-after-the-social-network-was-shut-down-212636/ ''Searchable Miiverse Archive Released By Fans After The Social Network Was Shut Down'']<br />
:Nathaniel Artosilla, ''Christian Post'', 2018-01-05<br />
;[https://www.techtimes.com/articles/218025/20180104/miss-miiverse-dont-worry-nintendo-social-netwrok-lives-on-at-archiverse.htm ''Miss Miiverse? Don't Worry, Nintendo Social Network Lives On At Archiverse'']<br />
:John Diente, ''Tech Times'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[https://www.destructoid.com/this-amazing-archive-lets-you-revisit-miiverse-481031.phtml/ ''This amazing archive lets you revisit Miiverse'']<br />
:Jordan Devore, ''Destructoid'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/01/missing-nintendos-miiverse-network-check-out-this-17tb-online-archive/ ''Miiverse archive recovers 17TB of social mirth after Nintendo’s shutdown'']<br />
:Kyle Orland, ''Ars Technica'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[https://dotesports.com/general/news/miiverse-preservation-wii-u-19915/ ''Millions of Miiverse posts have been archived safely'']<br />
:Brittany Vincent, ''Dot Esports'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.techradar.com/news/nintendo-miiverse-returns-to-the-internet-with-massive-fan-made-archive/ ''Nintendo Miiverse returns to the internet with massive fan-made archive'']<br />
:Jon Porter, ''TechRadar'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-miiverse-archive-is-live-and-boy-does-it-bring-back-memories/ ''The Miiverse Archive Is Live, and Boy Does It Bring Back Memories'']<br />
:Nadia Oxford, ''USgamer'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/nintendo/269998/nintendos-miiverse-has-been-archived-by-fans/ ''Nintendo's Miiverse Has Been Archived by Fans'']<br />
:Matthew Byrd, ''Den of Geek'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.jeuxactu.com/miiverse-les-5-ans-d-existence-du-reseau-ont-ete-archives-sur-un-site-112192.htm ''Miiverse : les 5 ans d'existence du réseau ont été archivés sur un site que voici'']<br />
:Damien Greffet, ''Jeux Actu'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.meristation.com.mx/noticias/miiverse-al-rescate-decenas-de-millones-de-mensajes-salvados/2252862 ''Miiverse al rescate: decenas de millones de mensajes salvados'']<br />
:Sergio C. González, ''Meri Station'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[https://www.tekcrispy.com/2018/01/04/salvan-datos-miiverse/ ''Archivistas salvan 17 Tb en datos de MiiVerse'']<br />
:Jorge Gonzales, ''TekCrispy'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-01-03-nintendos-wonderful-miiverse-has-been-preserved-for-posterity-by-enterprising-internet-archivists ''Nintendo's wonderful Miiverse has been preserved for posterity by enterprising internet archivists'']<br />
:Matt Wales, ''Eurogamer'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://kotaku.com/miiverse-archives-go-live-preserving-72-135-190-drawin-1821754074/ ''Miiverse Archives Go Live, Preserving 72135190 Drawings'']<br />
:Luke Plunkett, ''Kotaku'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/03/archiverse-miiverse-archive/ ''Nintendo's Miiverse lives on in a giant internet archive'']<br />
:Jon Fingas, ''Engadget'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/3/16844802/miiverse-archive-archiverse-old-miiverse-posts-wii-u-nintendo-3ds/ ''Massive Miiverse archive goes online with 17 TB worth of posts'']<br />
:Michael McWhertor, ''Polygon'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/01/03/searchable-miiverse-archive-released-by-fans/ ''Searchable Miiverse Archive Released By Fans'']<br />
:Hope Corrigan, ''IGN'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://cogconnected.com/2018/01/72-million-miiverse-posts/ ''Someone’s Archived 72 Million Miiverse Posts'']<br />
:James Paley, ''COGconnected'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://www.thenerdmag.com/archiverse-massive-miiverse-archive/ ''Archiverse – The Massive Miiverse Archive Has Almost 17 TB of Miiverse Memories'']<br />
:Rizwan Anwer, ''TheNerdMag'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[http://www.levelup.com/noticias/454003/Archivo-de-Miiverse-hecho-por-fans-ya-esta-disponible/ ''Archivo de Miiverse hecho por fans ya está disponible'']<br />
:Víctor Rosas, ''LEVELUP'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/behind-the-effort-to-archive-nintendos-disappearing-social-network/ ''Behind the effort to archive Nintendo’s disappearing social network'']<br />
:Kyle Orland, ''Ars Technica'', 2017-09-07<br />
;[https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/17/15986952/archive-team-back-up-soundcloud-warrior-project ''Archive Team promises to back up SoundCloud amid worries of a shutdown'']<br />
:Dani Deahl, ''The Verge'', 2017-07-17<br />
;[http://de.engadget.com/2017/02/07/imdb-stellt-foren-ein-archiveteam-springt-ein/ ''IMDB closes forums - ArchiveTeam steps in (German)'']<br />
:Felix Knoke, ''Engadget DE'', 2017-02-17<br />
;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdZxI3nFVJs ''Digital Amnesia'']<br />
:Bregtje van der Haak, ''VPRO Backlight'', 2014-09-11<br />
:(Also available at the [https://archive.org/details/DigitalAmnesiaDocumentary Internet Archive])<br />
;[http://webwereld.nl/e-commerce/80283-hyves-redders-redden-het-niet-of-nipt Hyves-redders redden het niet óf nipt]<br />
:Jasper Bakker, ''Webwereld'', 2013-11-29<br />
;[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131021/17362124953/isohunt-shuts-down-early-to-stop-archive-team-recording-important-historical-information.shtml ''IsoHunt Shuts Down Early To Stop Archive Team From Recording Important Historical Information'']<br />
:Mike Masnick, ''Techdirt'', 2013-10-22<br />
;[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/isohunt-shuts-down-a-day-early-to-avoid-becoming-part-of-online-archive/ ''isoHunt shuts down a day early to avoid becoming part of online archive'']<br />
:Cyrus Farivar, ''Ars Technica'', 2013-10-21<br />
;[https://torrentfreak.com/archiveteam-works-hard-to-avert-isohunt-data-massacre-131020/ ''ArchiveTeam Works Hard to Avert isoHunt Data Massacre'']<br />
:Ernesto, ''TorrentFreak'', 2013-10-20<br />
;[http://www.chip.pl/artykuly/trendy/2013/06/cyfrowi-archeolodzy ''Cyfrowi archeolodzy WWW'']<br />
:Hieronim Walicki, ''CHIP.pl'', 2013-06-18<br />
;[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/06/and-the-winner-is-announcing-the-2013-ndsa-innovation-award-winners/ And the Winner Is… Announcing the 2013 NDSA Innovation Award Winners]<br />
:Trevor Owens, ''The Signal'', Library of Congress, 2013-06-11<br />
;[http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20130527/archive-team-superheroes-evitan-webs-caigan-olvido/673120.shtml ''Archive Team: los superhéroes que evitan que las webs caigan en el olvido''] <br />
:Alvaro Ibanez, rtve.es, 2013-05-27. (Rough translation: ''Archive Team: superheroes that prevent us from falling into oblivion''.)<br />
;[http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/22/want-to-help-archive-upcoming-org-before-yahoo-shuts-it-down-try-this/ ''Want To Help Archive Upcoming.org Before Yahoo Shuts It Down? Try This.'']<br />
:Sarah Perez, ''TechCrunch'', 2013-04-22<br />
;[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/jason-scott-archive-team_n_2965368.html ''Jason Scott's Archive Team Is Saving The Web From Itself (And Rescuing Your Stuff)'']<br />
:Bianca Bosker, ''The Huffington Post'', 2013-03-27<br />
;[http://www.dailydot.com/news/archive-team-preserving-posterous/ Archive Team races to preserve Posterous before it goes dark]<br />
:Kris Holt, ''The Daily Dot'', 2013-03-13<br />
;[http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/06/26/the-archive-team-finishes-downloading-all-272-terabytes-of-mobileme-and-mac-for-posterity/ The Archive Team finishes downloading all 272 terabytes of MobileMe and .Mac for posterity]<br />
:Matthew Panzarino, ''The Next Web'', 2012-06-26<br />
;[http://www.pcworld.com/article/253672/the_archive_team_rescues_user_content_from_doomed_sites.html ''The 'Archive Team' Rescues User Content From Doomed Sites'']<br />
:Mark Sullivan, ''PCWorld'', 2012-04-12<br />
;[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120410/23092818446/historic-archive-websites-january-18th-sopa-blackout.shtml ''Historic Archive Of Websites From The January 18th SOPA Blackout'']<br />
:Mike Masnick, ''Techdirt'', 2012-04-12<br />
;[http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/mar/23/archive-team/ ''The Archive Team'']<br />
:''On the Media'', 2012-03-23. [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3530 Backstory by Jason].<br />
;[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00przc2 ''The Archive Team'']<br />
:''BBC Click'', 2012-03-06<br />
;[http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/thiswayup/audio/2511595/the-archive-team ''The Archive Team'']<br />
:''This Way Up'', Radio New Zealand 2012-03-03<br />
;[http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/426434/fire-in-the-library/ ''Fire in the Library'']<br />
:Matt Schwartz, ''MIT Technology Review'', 2011-12-20<br />
;[http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20396-digital-legacy-amateur-heroes-of-online-heritage.html#.UcXgsPHIpD8 ''Digital legacy: Amateur heroes of online heritage'']<br />
:Sumit Paul-Choudhury, ''New Scientist'', 2011-06-05<br />
;[http://www.cbc.ca/spark/full-interviews/2011/04/29/full-interview-jason-scott-on-online-video-and-digital-heritage/ ''Full Interview: Jason Scott on online video and digital heritage'']<br />
:Nora Young, ''Spark'', CBC.ca, 2011-04-29<br />
;[http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/18/google-video-termination ''Archivists step in as Google Video shuts down for good'']<br />
:Mark Brown, ''Wired'', 2011-04-18<br />
;[http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/coming-soon-900gb-torrent-of-mostly-every-geocities-web-site-ever/ ''Coming Soon: 900GB Torrent Of (Mostly) Every Geocities Web Site Ever'']<br />
:Nicholas Deleon, ''TechCrunch'', 2010-10-29<br />
;[http://misener.org/archiving-geocities-my-full-interview-with-jason-scott/ ''Archiving GeoCities: my full interview with Jason Scott'']<br />
:Dan Misener, 2010-09-29<br />
;[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28/geocities_preservation/ ''Web 0.2 archivists save Geocities from deletion'']<br />
:Austin Modine, ''The Register'', 2009-04-28<br />
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{{Navigation box}}</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=In_The_Media&diff=36025In The Media2019-04-02T23:57:23Z<p>VADemon: Fix: "Miss Miiverse" - found the original article at Tech Times</p>
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<div>Assorted mentions of the [[Archive Team]] in major media, in descending chronological order:<br />
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;[https://mashable.com/article/google-plus-internet-archive/?europe=true ''The race to preserve (almost) everything on Google+ before it shuts down'']<br />
:Matt Binder, ''Mashable'', 2019-03-18<br />
;[https://gizmodo.com/delete-never-the-digital-hoarders-who-collect-tumblrs-1832900423 ''Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files'']<br />
:Steven Melendez, ''Gizmodo'', 2019-03-04<br />
;[https://boingboing.net/2018/12/19/burning-the-library-2.html ''Before Tumblr switched off access to NSFW blogs, it blocked archivists who were trying to preserve them'']<br />
:Cory Doctorow, ''Boing Boing'', 2018-12-19<br />
;[https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tumblr-archive-team-blocked-blogs-nsfw-ban/ ''Tumblr reportedly blocked archivists from saving blogs before the NSFW purge'']<br />
:Ana Valens, ''The Daily Dot'', 2018-12-19<br />
;[https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3bekm/archivists-say-tumblr-ip-banned-them-for-trying-to-preserve-adult-content ''Archivists Say Tumblr IP Banned Them For Trying to Preserve Adult Content'']<br />
:Samantha Cole, ''Motherboard'', 2018-12-19<br />
;[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181216/22420341242/as-final-fuck-you-to-free-speech-tumblr-verizon-blocked-archivists.shtml ''As A Final Fuck You To Free Speech On Tumblr, Verizon Blocked Archivists'']<br />
:Mike Masnick, ''Techdirt'', 2018-12-18<br />
;[https://www.fastcompany.com/90279321/the-frantic-unprecedented-race-to-save-700000-nsfw-tumblr-for-posterity ''The frantic, unprecedented race to save 700,000 NSFW Tumblrs for posterity'']<br />
:Sean Captain, ''Fast Company'', 2018-12-12<br />
;[http://meiobit.com/378285/archiverse-banco-de-dados-do-miiverse-criado-por-fas-entra-no-ar-site-conta-17-tb-dados-da-rede-social-wii-u-e-3ds-nintendo-fechou-em-2017/ ''Grupo de fãs e engenheiros conseguiu salvar o Miiverse do amargo fim'']<br />
:Ronaldo Gogoni, ''Meio Bit'', 2018-01-05<br />
;[https://www.techtimes.com/articles/218025/20180104/miss-miiverse-dont-worry-nintendo-social-netwrok-lives-on-at-archiverse.htm ''Miss Miiverse? Don't Worry, Nintendo Social Network Lives On At Archiverse'']<br />
:John Diente, ''Tech Times'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[https://www.christianpost.com/news/searchable-miiverse-archive-released-by-fans-after-the-social-network-was-shut-down-212636/ ''Searchable Miiverse Archive Released By Fans After The Social Network Was Shut Down'']<br />
:Nathaniel Artosilla, ''Christian Post'', 2018-01-05<br />
;[https://www.destructoid.com/this-amazing-archive-lets-you-revisit-miiverse-481031.phtml/ ''This amazing archive lets you revisit Miiverse'']<br />
:Jordan Devore, ''Destructoid'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/01/missing-nintendos-miiverse-network-check-out-this-17tb-online-archive/ ''Miiverse archive recovers 17TB of social mirth after Nintendo’s shutdown'']<br />
:Kyle Orland, ''Ars Technica'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[https://dotesports.com/general/news/miiverse-preservation-wii-u-19915/ ''Millions of Miiverse posts have been archived safely'']<br />
:Brittany Vincent, ''Dot Esports'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.techradar.com/news/nintendo-miiverse-returns-to-the-internet-with-massive-fan-made-archive/ ''Nintendo Miiverse returns to the internet with massive fan-made archive'']<br />
:Jon Porter, ''TechRadar'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-miiverse-archive-is-live-and-boy-does-it-bring-back-memories/ ''The Miiverse Archive Is Live, and Boy Does It Bring Back Memories'']<br />
:Nadia Oxford, ''USgamer'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/nintendo/269998/nintendos-miiverse-has-been-archived-by-fans/ ''Nintendo's Miiverse Has Been Archived by Fans'']<br />
:Matthew Byrd, ''Den of Geek'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.jeuxactu.com/miiverse-les-5-ans-d-existence-du-reseau-ont-ete-archives-sur-un-site-112192.htm ''Miiverse : les 5 ans d'existence du réseau ont été archivés sur un site que voici'']<br />
:Damien Greffet, ''Jeux Actu'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.meristation.com.mx/noticias/miiverse-al-rescate-decenas-de-millones-de-mensajes-salvados/2252862 ''Miiverse al rescate: decenas de millones de mensajes salvados'']<br />
:Sergio C. González, ''Meri Station'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[https://www.tekcrispy.com/2018/01/04/salvan-datos-miiverse/ ''Archivistas salvan 17 Tb en datos de MiiVerse'']<br />
:Jorge Gonzales, ''TekCrispy'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-01-03-nintendos-wonderful-miiverse-has-been-preserved-for-posterity-by-enterprising-internet-archivists ''Nintendo's wonderful Miiverse has been preserved for posterity by enterprising internet archivists'']<br />
:Matt Wales, ''Eurogamer'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://kotaku.com/miiverse-archives-go-live-preserving-72-135-190-drawin-1821754074/ ''Miiverse Archives Go Live, Preserving 72135190 Drawings'']<br />
:Luke Plunkett, ''Kotaku'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/03/archiverse-miiverse-archive/ ''Nintendo's Miiverse lives on in a giant internet archive'']<br />
:Jon Fingas, ''Engadget'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/3/16844802/miiverse-archive-archiverse-old-miiverse-posts-wii-u-nintendo-3ds/ ''Massive Miiverse archive goes online with 17 TB worth of posts'']<br />
:Michael McWhertor, ''Polygon'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/01/03/searchable-miiverse-archive-released-by-fans/ ''Searchable Miiverse Archive Released By Fans'']<br />
:Hope Corrigan, ''IGN'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://cogconnected.com/2018/01/72-million-miiverse-posts/ ''Someone’s Archived 72 Million Miiverse Posts'']<br />
:James Paley, ''COGconnected'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://www.thenerdmag.com/archiverse-massive-miiverse-archive/ ''Archiverse – The Massive Miiverse Archive Has Almost 17 TB of Miiverse Memories'']<br />
:Rizwan Anwer, ''TheNerdMag'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[http://www.levelup.com/noticias/454003/Archivo-de-Miiverse-hecho-por-fans-ya-esta-disponible/ ''Archivo de Miiverse hecho por fans ya está disponible'']<br />
:Víctor Rosas, ''LEVELUP'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/behind-the-effort-to-archive-nintendos-disappearing-social-network/ ''Behind the effort to archive Nintendo’s disappearing social network'']<br />
:Kyle Orland, ''Ars Technica'', 2017-09-07<br />
;[https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/17/15986952/archive-team-back-up-soundcloud-warrior-project ''Archive Team promises to back up SoundCloud amid worries of a shutdown'']<br />
:Dani Deahl, ''The Verge'', 2017-07-17<br />
;[http://de.engadget.com/2017/02/07/imdb-stellt-foren-ein-archiveteam-springt-ein/ ''IMDB closes forums - ArchiveTeam steps in (German)'']<br />
:Felix Knoke, ''Engadget DE'', 2017-02-17<br />
;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdZxI3nFVJs ''Digital Amnesia'']<br />
:Bregtje van der Haak, ''VPRO Backlight'', 2014-09-11<br />
:(Also available at the [https://archive.org/details/DigitalAmnesiaDocumentary Internet Archive])<br />
;[http://webwereld.nl/e-commerce/80283-hyves-redders-redden-het-niet-of-nipt Hyves-redders redden het niet óf nipt]<br />
:Jasper Bakker, ''Webwereld'', 2013-11-29<br />
;[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131021/17362124953/isohunt-shuts-down-early-to-stop-archive-team-recording-important-historical-information.shtml ''IsoHunt Shuts Down Early To Stop Archive Team From Recording Important Historical Information'']<br />
:Mike Masnick, ''Techdirt'', 2013-10-22<br />
;[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/isohunt-shuts-down-a-day-early-to-avoid-becoming-part-of-online-archive/ ''isoHunt shuts down a day early to avoid becoming part of online archive'']<br />
:Cyrus Farivar, ''Ars Technica'', 2013-10-21<br />
;[https://torrentfreak.com/archiveteam-works-hard-to-avert-isohunt-data-massacre-131020/ ''ArchiveTeam Works Hard to Avert isoHunt Data Massacre'']<br />
:Ernesto, ''TorrentFreak'', 2013-10-20<br />
;[http://www.chip.pl/artykuly/trendy/2013/06/cyfrowi-archeolodzy ''Cyfrowi archeolodzy WWW'']<br />
:Hieronim Walicki, ''CHIP.pl'', 2013-06-18<br />
;[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/06/and-the-winner-is-announcing-the-2013-ndsa-innovation-award-winners/ And the Winner Is… Announcing the 2013 NDSA Innovation Award Winners]<br />
:Trevor Owens, ''The Signal'', Library of Congress, 2013-06-11<br />
;[http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20130527/archive-team-superheroes-evitan-webs-caigan-olvido/673120.shtml ''Archive Team: los superhéroes que evitan que las webs caigan en el olvido''] <br />
:Alvaro Ibanez, rtve.es, 2013-05-27. (Rough translation: ''Archive Team: superheroes that prevent us from falling into oblivion''.)<br />
;[http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/22/want-to-help-archive-upcoming-org-before-yahoo-shuts-it-down-try-this/ ''Want To Help Archive Upcoming.org Before Yahoo Shuts It Down? Try This.'']<br />
:Sarah Perez, ''TechCrunch'', 2013-04-22<br />
;[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/jason-scott-archive-team_n_2965368.html ''Jason Scott's Archive Team Is Saving The Web From Itself (And Rescuing Your Stuff)'']<br />
:Bianca Bosker, ''The Huffington Post'', 2013-03-27<br />
;[http://www.dailydot.com/news/archive-team-preserving-posterous/ Archive Team races to preserve Posterous before it goes dark]<br />
:Kris Holt, ''The Daily Dot'', 2013-03-13<br />
;[http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/06/26/the-archive-team-finishes-downloading-all-272-terabytes-of-mobileme-and-mac-for-posterity/ The Archive Team finishes downloading all 272 terabytes of MobileMe and .Mac for posterity]<br />
:Matthew Panzarino, ''The Next Web'', 2012-06-26<br />
;[http://www.pcworld.com/article/253672/the_archive_team_rescues_user_content_from_doomed_sites.html ''The 'Archive Team' Rescues User Content From Doomed Sites'']<br />
:Mark Sullivan, ''PCWorld'', 2012-04-12<br />
;[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120410/23092818446/historic-archive-websites-january-18th-sopa-blackout.shtml ''Historic Archive Of Websites From The January 18th SOPA Blackout'']<br />
:Mike Masnick, ''Techdirt'', 2012-04-12<br />
;[http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/mar/23/archive-team/ ''The Archive Team'']<br />
:''On the Media'', 2012-03-23. [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3530 Backstory by Jason].<br />
;[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00przc2 ''The Archive Team'']<br />
:''BBC Click'', 2012-03-06<br />
;[http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/thiswayup/audio/2511595/the-archive-team ''The Archive Team'']<br />
:''This Way Up'', Radio New Zealand 2012-03-03<br />
;[http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/426434/fire-in-the-library/ ''Fire in the Library'']<br />
:Matt Schwartz, ''MIT Technology Review'', 2011-12-20<br />
;[http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20396-digital-legacy-amateur-heroes-of-online-heritage.html#.UcXgsPHIpD8 ''Digital legacy: Amateur heroes of online heritage'']<br />
:Sumit Paul-Choudhury, ''New Scientist'', 2011-06-05<br />
;[http://www.cbc.ca/spark/full-interviews/2011/04/29/full-interview-jason-scott-on-online-video-and-digital-heritage/ ''Full Interview: Jason Scott on online video and digital heritage'']<br />
:Nora Young, ''Spark'', CBC.ca, 2011-04-29<br />
;[http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/18/google-video-termination ''Archivists step in as Google Video shuts down for good'']<br />
:Mark Brown, ''Wired'', 2011-04-18<br />
;[http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/coming-soon-900gb-torrent-of-mostly-every-geocities-web-site-ever/ ''Coming Soon: 900GB Torrent Of (Mostly) Every Geocities Web Site Ever'']<br />
:Nicholas Deleon, ''TechCrunch'', 2010-10-29<br />
;[http://misener.org/archiving-geocities-my-full-interview-with-jason-scott/ ''Archiving GeoCities: my full interview with Jason Scott'']<br />
:Dan Misener, 2010-09-29<br />
;[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28/geocities_preservation/ ''Web 0.2 archivists save Geocities from deletion'']<br />
:Austin Modine, ''The Register'', 2009-04-28<br />
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{{Navigation box}}</div>VADemonhttps://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=In_The_Media&diff=36024In The Media2019-04-02T23:51:08Z<p>VADemon: Add Google+ from Mashable</p>
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<div>Assorted mentions of the [[Archive Team]] in major media, in descending chronological order:<br />
<br />
;[https://mashable.com/article/google-plus-internet-archive/?europe=true ''The race to preserve (almost) everything on Google+ before it shuts down'']<br />
:Matt Binder, ''Mashable'', 2019-03-18<br />
;[https://gizmodo.com/delete-never-the-digital-hoarders-who-collect-tumblrs-1832900423 ''Delete Never: The Digital Hoarders Who Collect Tumblrs, Medieval Manuscripts, and Terabytes of Text Files'']<br />
:Steven Melendez, ''Gizmodo'', 2019-03-04<br />
;[https://boingboing.net/2018/12/19/burning-the-library-2.html ''Before Tumblr switched off access to NSFW blogs, it blocked archivists who were trying to preserve them'']<br />
:Cory Doctorow, ''Boing Boing'', 2018-12-19<br />
;[https://www.dailydot.com/debug/tumblr-archive-team-blocked-blogs-nsfw-ban/ ''Tumblr reportedly blocked archivists from saving blogs before the NSFW purge'']<br />
:Ana Valens, ''The Daily Dot'', 2018-12-19<br />
;[https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/d3bekm/archivists-say-tumblr-ip-banned-them-for-trying-to-preserve-adult-content ''Archivists Say Tumblr IP Banned Them For Trying to Preserve Adult Content'']<br />
:Samantha Cole, ''Motherboard'', 2018-12-19<br />
;[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20181216/22420341242/as-final-fuck-you-to-free-speech-tumblr-verizon-blocked-archivists.shtml ''As A Final Fuck You To Free Speech On Tumblr, Verizon Blocked Archivists'']<br />
:Mike Masnick, ''Techdirt'', 2018-12-18<br />
;[https://www.fastcompany.com/90279321/the-frantic-unprecedented-race-to-save-700000-nsfw-tumblr-for-posterity ''The frantic, unprecedented race to save 700,000 NSFW Tumblrs for posterity'']<br />
:Sean Captain, ''Fast Company'', 2018-12-12<br />
;[http://meiobit.com/378285/archiverse-banco-de-dados-do-miiverse-criado-por-fas-entra-no-ar-site-conta-17-tb-dados-da-rede-social-wii-u-e-3ds-nintendo-fechou-em-2017/ ''Grupo de fãs e engenheiros conseguiu salvar o Miiverse do amargo fim'']<br />
:Ronaldo Gogoni, ''Meio Bit'', 2018-01-05<br />
;[http://en.brinkwire.com/68739/miss-miiverse-dont-worry-nintendo-social-network-lives-on-at-archiverse/ ''Miss Miiverse? Don’t Worry, Nintendo Social Network Lives On At Archiverse'']<br />
:''Brinkwire'', 2018-01-05<br />
;[https://www.christianpost.com/news/searchable-miiverse-archive-released-by-fans-after-the-social-network-was-shut-down-212636/ ''Searchable Miiverse Archive Released By Fans After The Social Network Was Shut Down'']<br />
:Nathaniel Artosilla, ''Christian Post'', 2018-01-05<br />
;[https://www.destructoid.com/this-amazing-archive-lets-you-revisit-miiverse-481031.phtml/ ''This amazing archive lets you revisit Miiverse'']<br />
:Jordan Devore, ''Destructoid'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/01/missing-nintendos-miiverse-network-check-out-this-17tb-online-archive/ ''Miiverse archive recovers 17TB of social mirth after Nintendo’s shutdown'']<br />
:Kyle Orland, ''Ars Technica'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[https://dotesports.com/general/news/miiverse-preservation-wii-u-19915/ ''Millions of Miiverse posts have been archived safely'']<br />
:Brittany Vincent, ''Dot Esports'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.techradar.com/news/nintendo-miiverse-returns-to-the-internet-with-massive-fan-made-archive/ ''Nintendo Miiverse returns to the internet with massive fan-made archive'']<br />
:Jon Porter, ''TechRadar'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.usgamer.net/articles/the-miiverse-archive-is-live-and-boy-does-it-bring-back-memories/ ''The Miiverse Archive Is Live, and Boy Does It Bring Back Memories'']<br />
:Nadia Oxford, ''USgamer'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/nintendo/269998/nintendos-miiverse-has-been-archived-by-fans/ ''Nintendo's Miiverse Has Been Archived by Fans'']<br />
:Matthew Byrd, ''Den of Geek'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.jeuxactu.com/miiverse-les-5-ans-d-existence-du-reseau-ont-ete-archives-sur-un-site-112192.htm ''Miiverse : les 5 ans d'existence du réseau ont été archivés sur un site que voici'']<br />
:Damien Greffet, ''Jeux Actu'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.meristation.com.mx/noticias/miiverse-al-rescate-decenas-de-millones-de-mensajes-salvados/2252862 ''Miiverse al rescate: decenas de millones de mensajes salvados'']<br />
:Sergio C. González, ''Meri Station'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[https://www.tekcrispy.com/2018/01/04/salvan-datos-miiverse/ ''Archivistas salvan 17 Tb en datos de MiiVerse'']<br />
:Jorge Gonzales, ''TekCrispy'', 2018-01-04<br />
;[http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-01-03-nintendos-wonderful-miiverse-has-been-preserved-for-posterity-by-enterprising-internet-archivists ''Nintendo's wonderful Miiverse has been preserved for posterity by enterprising internet archivists'']<br />
:Matt Wales, ''Eurogamer'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://kotaku.com/miiverse-archives-go-live-preserving-72-135-190-drawin-1821754074/ ''Miiverse Archives Go Live, Preserving 72135190 Drawings'']<br />
:Luke Plunkett, ''Kotaku'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://www.engadget.com/2018/01/03/archiverse-miiverse-archive/ ''Nintendo's Miiverse lives on in a giant internet archive'']<br />
:Jon Fingas, ''Engadget'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://www.polygon.com/2018/1/3/16844802/miiverse-archive-archiverse-old-miiverse-posts-wii-u-nintendo-3ds/ ''Massive Miiverse archive goes online with 17 TB worth of posts'']<br />
:Michael McWhertor, ''Polygon'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/01/03/searchable-miiverse-archive-released-by-fans/ ''Searchable Miiverse Archive Released By Fans'']<br />
:Hope Corrigan, ''IGN'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://cogconnected.com/2018/01/72-million-miiverse-posts/ ''Someone’s Archived 72 Million Miiverse Posts'']<br />
:James Paley, ''COGconnected'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://www.thenerdmag.com/archiverse-massive-miiverse-archive/ ''Archiverse – The Massive Miiverse Archive Has Almost 17 TB of Miiverse Memories'']<br />
:Rizwan Anwer, ''TheNerdMag'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[http://www.levelup.com/noticias/454003/Archivo-de-Miiverse-hecho-por-fans-ya-esta-disponible/ ''Archivo de Miiverse hecho por fans ya está disponible'']<br />
:Víctor Rosas, ''LEVELUP'', 2018-01-03<br />
;[https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/09/behind-the-effort-to-archive-nintendos-disappearing-social-network/ ''Behind the effort to archive Nintendo’s disappearing social network'']<br />
:Kyle Orland, ''Ars Technica'', 2017-09-07<br />
;[https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/17/15986952/archive-team-back-up-soundcloud-warrior-project ''Archive Team promises to back up SoundCloud amid worries of a shutdown'']<br />
:Dani Deahl, ''The Verge'', 2017-07-17<br />
;[http://de.engadget.com/2017/02/07/imdb-stellt-foren-ein-archiveteam-springt-ein/ ''IMDB closes forums - ArchiveTeam steps in (German)'']<br />
:Felix Knoke, ''Engadget DE'', 2017-02-17<br />
;[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdZxI3nFVJs ''Digital Amnesia'']<br />
:Bregtje van der Haak, ''VPRO Backlight'', 2014-09-11<br />
:(Also available at the [https://archive.org/details/DigitalAmnesiaDocumentary Internet Archive])<br />
;[http://webwereld.nl/e-commerce/80283-hyves-redders-redden-het-niet-of-nipt Hyves-redders redden het niet óf nipt]<br />
:Jasper Bakker, ''Webwereld'', 2013-11-29<br />
;[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131021/17362124953/isohunt-shuts-down-early-to-stop-archive-team-recording-important-historical-information.shtml ''IsoHunt Shuts Down Early To Stop Archive Team From Recording Important Historical Information'']<br />
:Mike Masnick, ''Techdirt'', 2013-10-22<br />
;[http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/10/isohunt-shuts-down-a-day-early-to-avoid-becoming-part-of-online-archive/ ''isoHunt shuts down a day early to avoid becoming part of online archive'']<br />
:Cyrus Farivar, ''Ars Technica'', 2013-10-21<br />
;[https://torrentfreak.com/archiveteam-works-hard-to-avert-isohunt-data-massacre-131020/ ''ArchiveTeam Works Hard to Avert isoHunt Data Massacre'']<br />
:Ernesto, ''TorrentFreak'', 2013-10-20<br />
;[http://www.chip.pl/artykuly/trendy/2013/06/cyfrowi-archeolodzy ''Cyfrowi archeolodzy WWW'']<br />
:Hieronim Walicki, ''CHIP.pl'', 2013-06-18<br />
;[http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2013/06/and-the-winner-is-announcing-the-2013-ndsa-innovation-award-winners/ And the Winner Is… Announcing the 2013 NDSA Innovation Award Winners]<br />
:Trevor Owens, ''The Signal'', Library of Congress, 2013-06-11<br />
;[http://www.rtve.es/noticias/20130527/archive-team-superheroes-evitan-webs-caigan-olvido/673120.shtml ''Archive Team: los superhéroes que evitan que las webs caigan en el olvido''] <br />
:Alvaro Ibanez, rtve.es, 2013-05-27. (Rough translation: ''Archive Team: superheroes that prevent us from falling into oblivion''.)<br />
;[http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/22/want-to-help-archive-upcoming-org-before-yahoo-shuts-it-down-try-this/ ''Want To Help Archive Upcoming.org Before Yahoo Shuts It Down? Try This.'']<br />
:Sarah Perez, ''TechCrunch'', 2013-04-22<br />
;[http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/27/jason-scott-archive-team_n_2965368.html ''Jason Scott's Archive Team Is Saving The Web From Itself (And Rescuing Your Stuff)'']<br />
:Bianca Bosker, ''The Huffington Post'', 2013-03-27<br />
;[http://www.dailydot.com/news/archive-team-preserving-posterous/ Archive Team races to preserve Posterous before it goes dark]<br />
:Kris Holt, ''The Daily Dot'', 2013-03-13<br />
;[http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/06/26/the-archive-team-finishes-downloading-all-272-terabytes-of-mobileme-and-mac-for-posterity/ The Archive Team finishes downloading all 272 terabytes of MobileMe and .Mac for posterity]<br />
:Matthew Panzarino, ''The Next Web'', 2012-06-26<br />
;[http://www.pcworld.com/article/253672/the_archive_team_rescues_user_content_from_doomed_sites.html ''The 'Archive Team' Rescues User Content From Doomed Sites'']<br />
:Mark Sullivan, ''PCWorld'', 2012-04-12<br />
;[https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120410/23092818446/historic-archive-websites-january-18th-sopa-blackout.shtml ''Historic Archive Of Websites From The January 18th SOPA Blackout'']<br />
:Mike Masnick, ''Techdirt'', 2012-04-12<br />
;[http://www.onthemedia.org/2012/mar/23/archive-team/ ''The Archive Team'']<br />
:''On the Media'', 2012-03-23. [http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/3530 Backstory by Jason].<br />
;[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00przc2 ''The Archive Team'']<br />
:''BBC Click'', 2012-03-06<br />
;[http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/thiswayup/audio/2511595/the-archive-team ''The Archive Team'']<br />
:''This Way Up'', Radio New Zealand 2012-03-03<br />
;[http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/426434/fire-in-the-library/ ''Fire in the Library'']<br />
:Matt Schwartz, ''MIT Technology Review'', 2011-12-20<br />
;[http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20396-digital-legacy-amateur-heroes-of-online-heritage.html#.UcXgsPHIpD8 ''Digital legacy: Amateur heroes of online heritage'']<br />
:Sumit Paul-Choudhury, ''New Scientist'', 2011-06-05<br />
;[http://www.cbc.ca/spark/full-interviews/2011/04/29/full-interview-jason-scott-on-online-video-and-digital-heritage/ ''Full Interview: Jason Scott on online video and digital heritage'']<br />
:Nora Young, ''Spark'', CBC.ca, 2011-04-29<br />
;[http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-04/18/google-video-termination ''Archivists step in as Google Video shuts down for good'']<br />
:Mark Brown, ''Wired'', 2011-04-18<br />
;[http://techcrunch.com/2010/10/29/coming-soon-900gb-torrent-of-mostly-every-geocities-web-site-ever/ ''Coming Soon: 900GB Torrent Of (Mostly) Every Geocities Web Site Ever'']<br />
:Nicholas Deleon, ''TechCrunch'', 2010-10-29<br />
;[http://misener.org/archiving-geocities-my-full-interview-with-jason-scott/ ''Archiving GeoCities: my full interview with Jason Scott'']<br />
:Dan Misener, 2010-09-29<br />
;[http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28/geocities_preservation/ ''Web 0.2 archivists save Geocities from deletion'']<br />
:Austin Modine, ''The Register'', 2009-04-28<br />
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<div>{{Infobox project<br />
| title = Google+<br />
| logo = Google+ logo.png<br />
| image = Google+ - 3-22-19.png<br />
| URL = https://plus.google.com/<br />
| project_status = {{offline}} <small>(consumer version)</small><br />
| archiving_status = Profiles: {{saved}} (98%)<br />
Communities: {{partiallysaved}}<br />
| source = [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab googleplus-grab]<br />
| tracker = [https://tracker.archiveteam.org/googleplus/ googleplus]<br />
| irc = googleminus<br />
}}<br />
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'''Google+''' (Google Plus) was [[Google]]'s social media platform. The consumer version shut down on 2019-04-02.<br />
<br />
== Shutdown of the consumer platform ==<br />
On October 8, 2018, Google announced that they would shut down Google+ for consumers over the next 10 months, i.e. by the end of August 2019<ref>{{URL|https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-strobe/}}</ref>:<br />
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<blockquote><br />
<big>Project Strobe: Protecting your data, improving our third-party APIs, and sunsetting consumer Google+</big><br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
At the beginning of this year, we started an effort called Project Strobe—a root-and-branch review of third-party developer access to Google account and Android device data and of our philosophy around apps’ data access. This project looked at the operation of our privacy controls, platforms where users were not engaging with our APIs because of concerns around data privacy, areas where developers may have been granted overly broad access, and other areas in which our policies should be tightened.<br />
<br />
'''Finding 1: There are significant challenges in creating and maintaining a successful Google+ product that meets consumers’ expectations.'''<br />
<br />
'''Action 1: We are shutting down Google+ for consumers.'''<br />
<br />
Over the years we’ve received feedback that people want to better understand how to control the data they choose to share with apps on Google+. So as part of Project Strobe, one of our first priorities was to closely review all the APIs associated with Google+.<br />
<br />
This review crystallized what we’ve known for a while: that while our engineering teams have put a lot of effort and dedication into building Google+ over the years, it has not achieved broad consumer or developer adoption, and has seen limited user interaction with apps. The consumer version of Google+ currently has low usage and engagement: 90 percent of Google+ user sessions are less than five seconds.<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
The review did highlight the significant challenges in creating and maintaining a successful Google+ that meets consumers’ expectations. Given these challenges and the very low usage of the consumer version of Google+, we decided to sunset the consumer version of Google+.<br />
<br />
To give people a full opportunity to transition, we will implement this wind-down over a 10-month period, slated for completion by the end of next August. Over the coming months, we will provide consumers with additional information, including ways they can download and migrate their data.<br />
<br />
At the same time, we have many enterprise customers who are finding great value in using Google+ within their companies. Our review showed that Google+ is better suited as an enterprise product where co-workers can engage in internal discussions on a secure corporate social network. Enterprise customers can set common access rules, and use central controls, for their entire organization. We’ve decided to focus on our enterprise efforts and will be launching new features purpose-built for businesses. We will share more information in the coming days.<br />
<br />
...<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
On 10 December 2018, in the wake of another security issue, Google announced that the shutdown was being moved to April 2019 and that the API would shut down "within the next 90 days"<ref>{{URL|https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus/}}</ref>:<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
In October, we announced that we’d be sunsetting the consumer version of Google+ and its APIs because of the significant challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers’ expectations, as well as the platform’s low usage.<br />
<br />
We’ve recently determined that some users were impacted by a software update introduced in November that contained a bug affecting a Google+ API. We discovered this bug as part of our standard and ongoing testing procedures and fixed it within a week of it being introduced. No third party compromised our systems, and we have no evidence that the app developers that inadvertently had this access for six days were aware of it or misused it in any way.<br />
<br />
With the discovery of this new bug, we have decided to expedite the shut-down of all Google+ APIs; this will occur within the next 90 days. In addition, we have also decided to accelerate the sunsetting of consumer Google+ from August 2019 to April 2019. While we recognize there are implications for developers, we want to ensure the protection of our users.<br />
<br />
...<br />
<br />
We will sunset all Google+ APIs in the next 90 days. Developers can expect to hear more from us on this topic in the coming days, and can stay informed by continuing to check the Google+ developer page.<br />
<br />
We have also decided to accelerate sunsetting consumer Google+, bringing it forward from August 2019 to April 2019. We want to give users ample opportunity to transition off of consumer Google+, and over the coming months, we will continue to provide users with additional information, including ways they can safely and securely download and migrate their data.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
Another announcement was sent out through email on 2019 February 1st.<br />
<br />
<blockquote><br />
'''You've received this email because you have a consumer (personal) Google+ account or you manage a Google+ page.'''<br />
<br />
In December 2018, we <a href="https://blog.google/technology/safety-security/expediting-changes-google-plus">announced</a> our decision to shut down Google+ for consumers in April 2019 due to low usage and challenges involved in maintaining a successful product that meets consumers' expectations. We want to thank you for being part of Google+ and provide next steps, including how to download your photos and other content.<br />
<br />
'''On April 2nd, your Google+ account and any Google+ pages you created will be shut down and we will begin deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts'''. Photos and videos from Google+ in your Album Archive and your Google+ pages will also be deleted. You can <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788">download and save</a> your content, just make sure to do so before April. Note that photos and videos backed up in Google Photos will not be deleted.<br />
<br />
The process of deleting content from consumer Google+ accounts, Google+ Pages, and Album Archive will take a few months, and content may remain through this time. For example, users may still see parts of their Google+ account via activity log and some consumer Google+ content may remain visible to G Suite users until consumer Google+ is deleted.<br />
<br />
'''As early as February 4th, you will no longer be able to create new Google+ profiles, pages, communities or events.'''<br />
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See the full <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723">FAQ</a> for more details and updates leading up to the shutdown.<br />
<br />
'''If you're a Google+ Community owner or moderator''', you may <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788">download and save</a> your data for your Google+ Community. Starting early March 2019, additional data will be available for download, including author, body, and photos for every community post in a public community. <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/1045788#communities">Learn more</a><br />
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'''If you sign in to sites and apps using the Google+ Sign-in button''', these buttons will stop working in the coming weeks but in some cases may be replaced by a Google Sign-in button. You'll still be able to sign in with your Google Account wherever you see Google Sign-in buttons. <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723#signin">Learn more</a><br />
<br />
'''If you've used Google+ for comments on your own or other sites''', this feature will be removed from Blogger by February 4th and other sites by March 7th. All your Google+ comments on all sites will be deleted starting April 2, 2019. <a href="https://support.google.com/plus/answer/9217723#blogger">Learn more</a><br />
<br />
'''If you're a G Suite customer''', Google+ for your G Suite account should remain active. Contact your <a href="https://support.google.com/a/answer/6208960"> G Suite administrator</a> for more details. You can also expect a new look and new features soon. <a href="https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/g-suite/new-enterprise-grade-features-in-googleplus-help-businesses-drive-collaboration">Learn more</a><br />
<br />
'''If you're a developer''' using Google+ APIs or Google+ Sign-in, click <a href="https://developers.google.com/+/api-shutdown">here</a> to see how this will impact you.<br />
<br />
From all of us on the Google+ team, thank you for making Google+ such a special place. We are grateful for the talented group of artists, community builders, and thought leaders who made Google+ their home. It would not have been the same without your passion and dedication.<br />
<br />
Google LLC 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043<br />
<br />
You have received this mandatory email service announcement to update you about important changes to your Google+ Page, product or account.<br />
</blockquote><br />
<br />
The shutdown began on 2019-04-02 around 15:40 UTC with pages being replaced gradually by either a "Google+ is no longer available" message or a redirect to the Google login. By 16:55 UTC, virtually every request was being redirected to the login page.<br />
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== How can I help? ==<br />
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Download and fire up your [[Warrior]]! Then select Google+. Better yet, select Archive Team's Choice. If you have an old Warrior installation, note that version 2 of the Warrior appliance is no longer functional as a result of outdated SSL support and has been replaced by version 3. You can download version 3 by following the Warrior link and clicking the new appliance download link.<br />
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Alternatively for advanced users, you can run the scripts manually by heading to https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/googleplus-grab and following the instructions in the readme.<br />
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Don't forget to '''[https://archive.org/donate/ donate to the Internet Archive]''' who will be hosting these files. Disk space is cheap but maintaining them is not!<br />
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== Read more ==<br />
* https://www.reddit.com/r/googleplus/comments/9nph98/google_mass_migration_community_on_g_helping<br />
* https://social.antefriguserat.de/index.php/Main_Page<br />
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== References ==<br />
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<div>==What is the Archive Team Warrior?==<br />
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[[Image:Archive_team.png|100px|left]]<br />
[[Image:Warrior-vm-screenshot.png||256px|right]]<br />
[[Image:Warrior-web-screenshot.png|256px|right]]<br />
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The Archive Team Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts. It will download sites and upload them to our archive — and it’s really easy to do!<br />
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The warrior is a virtual machine, so there is no risk to your computer. The warrior will only use your bandwidth and some of your disk space. It will get tasks from and report progress to the [[Tracker]].<br />
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== Basic usage ==<br />
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The warrior runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux using a virtual machine. You'll need one of:<br />
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* [https://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/downloads/warrior3/ Warrior Appliance] (300MB) - Download mirrors: [https://www.syping.de/archiveteam/ #1 (de)]<br />
* [https://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox] (recommended to [[#Beta version|use the beta version of the warrior]]) <br />
* [https://www.vmware.com/products/player/ VMware workstation/player] (free-gratis for personal use)<br />
* [[#Alternative virtual machines|See below for alternative virtual machines]]<br />
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=== Quick start instructions for VirtualBox ===<br />
<br />
# Download the appliance from the link above.<br />
# Launch VirtualBox<br />
# In VirtualBox, click File > Import Appliance and open the file.<br />
# Start the virtual machine.<br />
#* It will fetch the latest updates and will eventually tell you to start your web browser.<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit http://localhost:8001/<br />
# On the left, click "Your settings".<br />
# Choose a username - we'll show your progress on the [[tracker|leaderboard]].<br />
# On the left, click "Available projects" tab and pick a project to work on.<br />
#* Even better: select "ArchiveTeam's Choice" to let your warrior work on the most urgent project.<br />
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=== Start instructions for VMWare Player ===<br />
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# Download the appliance from the link above<br />
# Launch VMWare Player<br />
# In Player on the right, click "Open Virtual Machine", open the file and import the virtual machine.<br />
# (Optional) Select the virtual machine and click "Edit virtual machine settings".<br />
#* Select Network Adapter and set it to "Bridged: Connected directly to the physical network"<br />
# Start the virtual machine.<br />
#* It will fetch the latest updates and will eventually tell you to start your web browser.<br />
# Using your regular web browser, visit the address that is shown on the bottom (e.g. http://192.168.0.100:8001/)<br />
# On the left, click "Your settings".<br />
# Choose a username - we'll show your progress on the [[tracker|leaderboard]].<br />
# On the left, click "Available projects" tab and pick a project to work on.<br />
#* Even better: select "ArchiveTeam's Choice" to let your warrior work on the most urgent project.<br />
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== Beta version ==<br />
<br />
Help us test the new version of the appliance available at https://warriorhq.archiveteam.org/downloads/warrior3/. Report any issues or feedback on [[IRC|#warrior on EFnet]].<br />
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This version includes updated internal components that allow us to run newer and improved software. Specifically, it runs the warrior code within a Docker container.<br />
<br />
== Alternative virtual machines ==<br />
<br />
Thanks to user-effort, there are alternatives:<br />
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* [https://www.docker.io/ Docker] (Linux)<br />
** [https://hub.docker.com/r/archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile/ official dockerfile] ([https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile repository])<br />
** [https://hub.docker.com/r/infrequent/at-as-dockerfile modified dockerfile - for manual script execution]<br />
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* [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/solutions/virtualization.aspx Hyper-V] (Windows 8 Professional)<br />
** ([http://jonimoose.net/2013/archiveteam-warrior-on-hyper-v/ Hyper-V virtual machine])<br />
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Please note that these alternatives are not in widespread use by our warriors, so we may not be able to help with either issues or advanced usage.<br />
<br />
== Warrior FAQ ==<br />
<br />
=== Why a virtual machine in the first place? ===<br />
<br />
The virtual machine is a quick, safe, and easy way for newcomers to help us out. It offers many features:<br />
<br />
* Graphical interface<br />
* Automatically selects which project is important to run<br />
* Self-updating software infrastructure<br />
* Allows for unattended use<br />
* In case of software faults, your machine is not ruined<br />
* Restarts itself in case of runaway programs<br />
* Runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux painlessly<br />
* Ensures consistency in the archived data regardless of your machine's quirks<br />
<br />
If you have suggestions for improving this system, please talk to us as described below.<br />
<br />
=== Can I use whatever internet access for the warrior? ===<br />
<br />
No. We need "clean" connections. Please ensure the following:<br />
<br />
* No OpenDNS. No ISP DNS that redirects to a search page. Use non-captive DNS servers.<br />
* No ISP connections that inject advertisements into web pages.<br />
* No proxies. Proxies can return bad data. The original HTTP headers and IP address are needed for the WARC file.<br />
* No content-filtering firewalls.<br />
* No censorship. If you believe your country implements censorship, do not run a warrior. <br />
* No Tor. The server may return an error page instead of content if they ban exit nodes.<br />
* No free cafe wifi. Archiving your cafe's wifi service agreement repeatedly is not helpful.<br />
* No VPNs. Data integrity is a very high priority for the Archive Team so use of VPNs with the official crawler is discouraged.<br />
* We prefer connections from many public IP addresses if possible. (For example, if your apartment building uses a single IP address, we don't want your apartment banned.)<br />
<br />
=== I turned my warrior VM appliance off. Will those tasks be lost? ===<br />
<br />
If you've killed your warrior VM instance, then the work your warrior did has been lost. However, the tasks will be returned to the pool after a period of time, and other warriors may claim them. If you want, you can alert the admins via [[IRC]] of what's happened and they can clear the claims your username may have made. but this isn't very important on most projects.<br />
<br />
=== I closed my browser or tab with the warrior's web interface. Will those tasks be lost? ===<br />
<br />
No. The web browser interface just provides a user interface to the warrior. As long as the VM is not stopped, it will continue normally.<br />
<br />
=== I need to disconnect my internet / reboot my PC. How can I do this without losing work? ===<br />
<br />
If you pause/suspend the warrior instance, most projects will allow resuming of work in progress when you unsuspend the warrior instance.<br />
<br />
If you decide to use the suspend feature, please note that if you keep it suspended for too long (more than a few hours), the administrators will assume that the item is lost and re-queue it. Using the suspend feature so that you can reboot your computer is perfectly fine.<br />
<br />
=== How much disk space will the warrior use? ===<br />
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Short answer: it depends on the project. (But never more than 60GB.)<br />
<br />
Long answer: because each project defines items differently, sizes may vary. A single task may be a small file or a whole subsection of a website. The virtual machine is configured by default to use an absolute maximum of 60GB. Any unused virtual machine disk space is not used on the host computer. You may run the virtual machine on less than 60GB if you like to live dangerously. We're downloading the internet, after all!<br />
<br />
=== How can I log in to the virtual machine? ===<br />
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Unless you know what you are doing, you should not need to do this. But, if you want to, the username is <code>root</code> and the password is <code>archiveteam</code>. Once logged in as root, you can execute <code>sudo -u warrior -i</code> to log in as the warrior user. <br />
<br />
Press ALT+F3 to switch to virtual console number 3. Use ALT+Left or ALT+Right to switch between virtual consoles. There are 6 virtual consoles in total. Consoles 1 and 2 are reserved for the warrior.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run multiple virtual machines at the same time? ===<br />
<br />
You'll need to adjust the networking settings.<br />
<br />
In VirtualBox, select a virtual machine and open up Settings → Network → Adapter 1 → Port Forwarding. You need to adjust the host port. For example, set your table to TCP | 127.0.0.1 | 8123 | | 8001. This maps port 8123 on the host machine (your computer) to port 8001 on the virtual machine (the warrior), and you can then access the warrior's web interface from port 8123 in your browser.<br />
<br />
Each VM you want to access should have a different host port. Do not use port numbers below 1024 unless you know what you are doing.<br />
<br />
VMWare installations should be using bridged networking. However, if you want, you can switch to NAT (under Settings → Hardware → Virtual Network Adapter) and click Edit to set up port forwarding. On Linux, you can also use lines like <code>8123 = 192.168.0.100:8001</code> in the <code>[incomingtcp]</code> section of nat.conf. (Make sure the VM IP is correct!)<br />
<br />
=== How can I run the virtual machine headlessly (without leaving a window open)? ===<br />
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On VirtualBox, use this command:<br />
<br />
<pre>vboxmanage startvm archiveteam-warrior-2 --type headless</pre><br />
<br />
Shut down the VM with:<br />
<br />
<pre>vboxmanage controlvm archiveteam-warrior-2 acpipowerbutton</pre><br />
<br />
Substituting <code>suspend</code> or <code>resume</code> for <code>acpipowerbutton</code> suspends or resumes the VM. For more information, consult [http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch08.html#vboxmanage-startvm the VirtualBox manual (Chapter 8, Sections 12 and 13)].<br />
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On VMWare, use this command:<br />
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<pre>vmrun start <path to vmx file> nogui</pre><br />
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Shut down with:<br />
<br />
<pre>vmrun stop <path to vmx file> soft</pre><br />
<br />
Substituting <code>suspend</code> for <code>stop</code> suspends the VM. Resume with <code>start</code> again. For more information, including the paths to VMX files on different operating systems, consult [http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vix180_vmrun_command.pdf Using vmrun to Control Virtual Machines] (PDF), pages 10 and 11.<br />
<br />
=== How can I set up the virtual machine as a system service (so that it starts up on boot and shuts down automatically)? ===<br />
<br />
If you are using VirtualBox and running a Linux distribution that uses the systemd init system (like most recent releases), you can follow the short instructions on [http://www.ericerfanian.com/automatically-starting-virtualbox-vms-on-archlinux-using-systemd/ this page]. (The page title specifies Arch Linux, but this will work for other distros as long as they run systemd.)<br />
<br />
=== How can I set up the virtual machine with directly-bridged networking instead of NAT? ===<br />
<br />
On VirtualBox, use these commands:<br />
<br />
<pre>vboxmanage modifyvm archiveteam-warrior-2 --nic1 bridged<br />
vboxmanage modifyvm archiveteam-warrior-2 --bridgeadapter1 eth0</pre><br />
<br />
We presume you want to bind to <code>eth0</code>. Adjust as required. :)<br />
<br />
VMWare installations should already be using bridged networking.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run the warrior without a virtual machine? (The VM has too much overhead for a VPS!) ===<br />
<br />
One option is running a Docker container (see [[#Alternative_virtual_machines|above]]). Docker is based on LXC, and the overhead is far less than running a full VM. If you plan on running the [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/warrior-dockerfile warrior-dockerfile], make sure to publish the port to allow access to the web interface:<br />
<br />
<pre>docker run -d -p 8001:8001 archiveteam/warrior-dockerfile</pre><br />
<br />
This creates a direct port mapping. For host port 38001 to container port 8001, use <code>38001:8001</code>. Adjust as required. :P<br />
<br />
(Multiple projects can be also run in isolated environments (containers) for rapid deployment using [https://hub.docker.com/r/infrequent/at-as-dockerfile at-as-dockerfile].)<br />
<br />
Another alternative is '''running the project manually.''' If you are managing a VPS, it's likely you are comfortable with some Linux stuff. Consult the project wiki page or the source code repository readme file.<br />
<br />
=== How can I run tons of warriors easily? ===<br />
<br />
We assume you've checked with the current ArchiveTeam project what concurrency and resources are needed or useful!<br />
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Whether your have your own virtual cluster or you're renting someone else's (aka a "[https://fsfe.org/activities/nocloud/ cloud]"), you probably need some [[wikipedia:Category:Orchestration_software|orchestration software]].<br />
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ArchiveTeam volunteers have successfully used a variety of hosting providers and tools (including free trials on AWS and GCE), often just by building their own flavour of virtual server and then repeating it with simple [https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/ cloud-init] scripts (to install and launch docker as above) or whatever tool the hosting provides. If you desire full automation, the [https://gitlab.com/diggan/archiveteam-infra archiveteam-infra repository by diggan] helps with [[wikipedia:Terraform (software)|Terraform]] on [[wikipedia:DigitalOcean|DigitalOcean]].<br />
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Some custom monitoring scripts also exist, for instance [https://github.com/general-programming/gp-archiveteam-bs/blob/master/tumblr/watcher.py watcher.py].<br />
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=== I'm looking at the leaderboard. What's that icon beside the username? ===<br />
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That's just the warrior logo: [[File:Archive_team.png|42px]] (click on the image for a larger version). It means that that person is using the warrior. Those without the icon are running the scripts manually.<br />
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[[Image:Archiveteam-warrior-sticker.png|256px|right]]<br />
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=== What's that guy doing in the logo? ===<br />
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The place is on fire! But don't worry, he safely escaped with the rescued data in his arms.<br />
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=== That’s awesome – can I slap this logo on my laptop to show my Internet-preservation pride? ===<br />
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[http://www.redbubble.com/people/ajhajh/works/12857655-archive-team-warrior-stickers?p=sticker You sure can!] The ArchiveTeam Warrior laptop sticker can start conversations about archiving, if you’re into that.<br />
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=== I'd like to help write code or I want to tweak the scripts to run to my liking. Where can I find more info? Where is the source code and repository? ===<br />
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Check out the [[Dev]] documentation for details on the infrastructure and details of the source code layout.<br />
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=== I still have a question! ===<br />
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Check out the [[Frequently Asked Questions|general FAQ page]]. Talk to us on [[IRC]]. Use [irc://irc.efnet.org/warrior #warrior] for specific warrior questions or [irc://irc.efnet.org/archiveteam #archiveteam] for general questions.<br />
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== Troubleshooting ==<br />
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=== I'm getting errors when I try to launch the VM. ===<br />
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If you are receiving <code>Breakpoint has been reached (0x80000003)</code>, <code>A critical error has occurred while running the virtual machine and the machine execution has been stopped.</code>, or VT-X errors, you probably do not have virtualization enabled, either because it is turned off in your computer's BIOS or your CPU does not support it.<br />
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You can check CPU support on Linux with <code>cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "(vmx|svm)" | uniq</code>. If there is a line of output starting with "flags", your processor supports virtualization; if there is no output, it does not. You can check whether virtualization is enabled in the BIOS using the <code>rdmsr</code> utility in your distro's <code>msr-tools</code> package.<br />
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You can check support and BIOS status on Windows using [https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=592 Microsoft's Hardware-Assisted Virtualization Detection Tool] or [http://openlibsys.org/index-ja.html VirtualChecker].<br />
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To enable virtualization on a CPU with support, reboot the computer and enter the BIOS. The virtualization setting is usually under something like 'CPU configuration' or 'advanced settings'.<br />
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=== I just imported the ova image and the warrior is stuck on "Preparing the data partition". ===<br />
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This issue has cropped up before, and we do not know what causes it. We recommend you delete the warrior image and import the ova again. Testing shows that such a reimport works in the majority of cases.<br />
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=== I can't connect to localhost. ===<br />
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The application is configured to set up port forwarding to the guest machine, and you should be able to access the interface through your web browser at port 8001. If this does not happen, and isn't resolved by rebooting the warrior (using the ACPI power signals, not suspend/save state and resume), you may need to double-check your machine's network settings (as described [[#How_can_I_run_multiple_virtual_machines_at_the_same_time.3F|above]]).<br />
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=== The warrior can't connect to the internet. ===<br />
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It's possible that the virtual machine has picked up the address of the local DNS cache on your computer, which the virtual machine does not have access to. <br />
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If you experience this on VirtualBox, see [http://askubuntu.com/questions/204953/virtualbox-dns-stopped-working-on-upgrade-to-12-10 this question and answer]. Additionally, check to see if "Cable Connected" is unchecked in the advanced settings of the virtual adapter, under the network tab in the virtual machine's settings. Check it if it's unchecked, then save your settings.<br />
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=== I see a message that no item was received. ===<br />
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This means that there is no work available. This can happen for several reasons:<br />
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* The project has just finished and someone is inspecting the work done. If a problem is discovered, items may be re-queued and more work will become available.<br />
* You have checked out/claimed too many items. Reduce your concurrency and let others do some of the work too.<br />
* In a rare case, you have been banned by a tracker administrator because there was a problem with your work: you were requesting too much, you were tampering with the scripts, a malfunction has occurred, or your internet connection is "unclean" (see [[#Can_I_use_whatever_internet_access_for_the_warrior.3F|above]]).<br />
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=== I see a message about rate limiting. ===<br />
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Don't worry. Keep in mind that although downloading the internet for fun and digital preservation are the primary goals of all Archive Team activities, serious stress on the target's server may occur. The rate limit is imposed by a [[Tracker#People|tracker administrator]] and should not be subverted.<br />
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(In other words, we don't want to DDoS the servers.)<br />
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If you like, you can switch to another [[Warrior projects|project]] with less load.<br />
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=== I see a message about code being out of date. ===<br />
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Don't worry. There is a new update ready. You do not need to do anything about this; the warrior will update its code every hour. If you are impatient, please reboot the warrior and it will download the latest code and resume work.<br />
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=== I'm running the scripts manually and I see a message about code being out of date. ===<br />
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This happens when a bug in the scripts is discovered. Bugs are unavoidable, especially when the server is out of our control.<br />
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Try the <code>--auto-update</code> option available in Seesaw version 0.8. However, please be aware that you are now executing code automatically. Be sure to run the scripts in a separate user account for safety.<br />
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=== I see messages about rsync errors. ===<br />
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Uh-oh! Something is not right. Please notify us immediately in the appropriate [[IRC]] channel.<br />
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=== I told the warrior to shut down from the interface, but nothing has changed. ===<br />
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The warrior will attempt to finish the current running tasks before shutting down. If you need to shut down right away, go ahead. Your progress will be lost, but the jobs will eventually cycle out to another user.<br />
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=== The warrior is eating all my bandwidth! ===<br />
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On VirtualBox (relatively recent versions), use this command:<br />
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<pre>vboxmanage bandwidthctl archiveteam-warrior-3 add limit --type network --limit 3m</pre><br />
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This will limit the warrior to 3Mb/s. (Limit units are <code>k</code> for kilobit, <code>m</code> for megabit, <code>g</code> for gigabit, <code>K</code> for kilobyte, <code>M</code> for megabyte, and <code>G</code> for gigabyte.) Adjust as required. :)<br />
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In the latest version of VirtualBox on Windows, the syntax appears to have changed. The correct command now seems to be:<br />
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<pre>VBoxManage bandwidthctl archiveteam-warrior-3 add netlimit --type network --limit 3</pre><br />
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For more information, consult [http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_bandwidth_limit the VirtualBox manual (Chapter 6, Section 9)].<br />
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On VMWare (versions 9 and above), select a virtual machine and open Settings → Hardware → Virtual Network Adapter → Advanced. You can set a bandwidth limit here.<br />
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=== The warrior is using up disk space, even though it's not running a project! ===<br />
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Virtual machine disk images do not behave like a regular file. There are several ways to safely reclaim space:<br />
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* Delete the second disk and put back an empty disk. The warrior should reformat the second disk.<br />
* Delete the entire warrior application and re-import it.<br />
* Use the [http://intgat.tigress.co.uk/rmy/uml/index.html zerofree] program and then clone the disk image. Reattach the cloned disk image.<br />
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=== The item I'm working on is downloading thousands of URLs and it's taking hours. ===<br />
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Please notify us in the appropriate [[IRC]] channel. You may need to reboot the warrior.<br />
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=== Why is the default project not working? / Why is a manual project not in the warrior yet? ===<br />
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Sorry. Sometimes the administrators are too busy...<br />
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=== Why are there no projects? ===<br />
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We finished the ones we were working on! If there are no projects showing, you can [[Dev|help us write one]]. No projects does ''not'' mean there is nothing left to archive!<br />
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=== The instructions to run the software/scripts are awful and they are difficult to set up. ===<br />
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Well, excuuuuse me, princess!<br />
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We're not a professional support team so help us help you help us all. See above for [[#Where_can_I_file_a_bug.2C_suggestion.2C_or_a_feature_request.3F|bug reports]], [[#Where_can_I_file_a_bug.2C_suggestion.2C_or_a_feature_request.3F|suggestions]], or [[#I.27d_like_to_help_write_code._Where_can_I_find_more_info.3F|code contributions]].<br />
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=== Where can I file a bug, suggestion, or a feature request? ===<br />
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If the issue is related to the warrior's web interface or the library that grab scripts are using, see [https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/seesaw-kit/issues seesaw-kit issues]. Other issues should be filed into their own [[Dev/Source_Code|repositories]].<br />
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== Projects ==<br />
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See [[Warrior projects]].<br />
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== Are you a coder? ==<br />
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Like the warrior? Interested in how it works under the hood? Got software skills? '''[[Dev|Help us improve it!]]'''<br />
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