Difference between revisions of "Alive... OR ARE THEY"

From Archiveteam
Jump to navigation Jump to search
 
(20 intermediate revisions by 12 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
Like many sites before them, these places indicate a sunny outlook, a clean bill of health and a total sense of "all systems go". But as we've found out from those many sites before them, fortunes can change overnight.
Like many sites before them, these places indicate a sunny outlook, a clean bill of health and a total sense of "all systems go". But as we've found out from those many sites before them, fortunes can change overnight.  


Archive Team considers these sites specifically of interest because they solicit so much content, contain so many works and projects by a wide group of people, or have the internet particularly dependent on them. Consider this a fire drill.. know what you can do to get your data off these sites and back them off for later.
Archive Team considers these sites specifically of interest because they solicit so much content, contain so many works and projects by a wide group of people, or have the internet particularly dependent on them. Consider this a fire drill.. know what you can do to get your data off these sites and back them off for later.
Line 25: Line 25:
* '''[[AnimeMusicVideos.org]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.animemusicvideos.org/}}) is fine right now, but they rely on donations and host vast amounts of user-edited music videos on their server (presumably without mirrors). Hard to download as you have to be a member to get all the download links, and after downloading a handful you have to vode before you can d/l again (or you can donate which presumably gives you 1 year of free d/l access). Also, this site might be a grey area, copyright-wise, as the videos are all cut together from copyrighted material.
* '''[[AnimeMusicVideos.org]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.animemusicvideos.org/}}) is fine right now, but they rely on donations and host vast amounts of user-edited music videos on their server (presumably without mirrors). Hard to download as you have to be a member to get all the download links, and after downloading a handful you have to vode before you can d/l again (or you can donate which presumably gives you 1 year of free d/l access). Also, this site might be a grey area, copyright-wise, as the videos are all cut together from copyrighted material.
* '''[[Archive of Our Own]]''' ({{url|1=https://archiveofourown.org/}}) is stable but contains a large catalog of fanfiction that would likely be lost if the site were to shut down.
* '''[[Archive of Our Own]]''' ({{url|1=https://archiveofourown.org/}}) is stable but contains a large catalog of fanfiction that would likely be lost if the site were to shut down.
* '''[[The Believer Magazine]]''' ({{url|1=https://believermag.com/}}) was just purchased [https://twitter.com/ST_Collective_/status/1523756595317927936 by what appears to be a sex toy company with an interest in keeping the archives up] but they do not appear to be reliable or trustworthy custodians.  
* '''[[Baseportal]]''' is a web database which, although currently existing, isn't in the best state, seeing as the site hasn't updated to HTTPS and the forums are overran with spam. It would be great for archiving seeing as thousands use it. (including the Philippine government)
* '''[[The Believer Magazine]]''' ({{url|1=https://www.thebeliever.net/}}) <s>was just purchased [https://twitter.com/ST_Collective_/status/1523756595317927936 by what appears to be a sex toy company with an interest in keeping the archives up] but they do not appear to be reliable or trustworthy custodians.</s> The site has been sold back to its previous/original publisher, McSweeney's, since 2022. The website was originally {{url|1=https://believermag.com/}} (which now redirects to culture.org), and was moved on May 16 (coinciding with the change in ownership); it seems that all previous publications up to March 2003 are archived on the current site.
* '''[[BetaArchive]]''' ({{url|http://www.betaarchive.com/}}) has Kafkaesque requirements to be able to access it, and apparently refuses to be backed up, presumably so that they get more visitors. Valuable cultural library of historic software with no backups? Aargh.
* '''[[BetaArchive]]''' ({{url|http://www.betaarchive.com/}}) has Kafkaesque requirements to be able to access it, and apparently refuses to be backed up, presumably so that they get more visitors. Valuable cultural library of historic software with no backups? Aargh.
* '''[[BioMedia Project]]''' ({{url|1=http://biomediaproject.com/bmp/}}) is a large archive of various BIONICLE media that has not had a notable update since 2015.
* '''[[BioMedia Project]]''' ({{url|1=http://biomediaproject.com/bmp/}}) is a large archive of various BIONICLE media that has not had a notable update since 2015.
* '''[[Carrd]]''' ({{url|1=https://carrd.co}}, {{url|1=https://crd.co}}, {{url|1=https://ju.mp}}, and {{url|1=https://uwu.ai}}) is a free web host, mainly used by minorities (the LGBTQ+ community and people with mental illnesses, for example) and Twitter/Tumblr communities. Also used for activism (one of the most popular Carrd websites is about Black Lives Matter, for example). Pretty stable as of now, but could become a good historical resource in the future.
* '''[[Carrd]]''' ({{url|1=https://carrd.co}}, {{url|1=https://crd.co}}, {{url|1=https://ju.mp}}, and {{url|1=https://uwu.ai}}) is a free web host, mainly used by minorities (the LGBTQ+ community and people with mental illnesses, for example) and Twitter/Tumblr communities. Also used for activism (one of the most popular Carrd websites is about Black Lives Matter, for example). Pretty stable as of now, but could become a good historical resource in the future.
* '''[[Catbox]]''' ({{url|1=https://catbox.moe/}}) is a file host whose main source of funding ([[Patreon]]) {{url|1=https://blog.catbox.moe/post/785233399498555392/important-catbox-needs-your-help|2=fucked them over}}.
* '''[[Codecademy]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.codecademy.com/}}) has a large amount of valuable coding lessons.
* '''[[Codecademy]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.codecademy.com/}}) has a large amount of valuable coding lessons.
* '''[[DatasheetArchive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.datasheetarchive.com/}}) hosts over 350 million PDF datasheets for integrated circuits, some of which are very old and hard to track down otherwise. The site is slow from time to time and uses a convoluted IFRAME-based online viewer, presumably to make scraping the site harder. Nevertheless, multiple other similar sites exist, with large parts of their PDFs non-overlapping, so that at some point, all should be saved. Similar sites include http://doc.chipfind.<!-- -->ru/ (1.6m datasheets), http://www.alldatasheet.com/ (20m datasheets), http://www.datasheets.com/ (250m datasheets), http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/, http://freedatasheets.com/ and several others
* '''[[DatasheetArchive]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.datasheetarchive.com/}}) hosts over 350 million PDF datasheets for integrated circuits, some of which are very old and hard to track down otherwise. The site is slow from time to time and uses a convoluted IFRAME-based online viewer, presumably to make scraping the site harder. Nevertheless, multiple other similar sites exist, with large parts of their PDFs non-overlapping, so that at some point, all should be saved. Similar sites include http://doc.chipfind.<!-- -->ru/ (1.6m datasheets), http://www.alldatasheet.com/ (20m datasheets), http://www.datasheets.com/ (250m datasheets), http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/, http://freedatasheets.com/ and several others
* '''[[Delicious]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.delicious.com/}}) loves to change their API, which has a side effect of making it difficult to back up.
* '''[[Delicious]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.delicious.com/}}) loves to change their API, which has a side effect of making it difficult to back up.
* '''[[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]''' ({{url|1=http://encyclopediadramatica.online/}}) is frequently up, down, and changing domains due to general Internet drama.
* '''[[Encyclopedia Dramatica]]''' ({{url|1=edramatica.com}}) is frequently up, down, and changing domains due to general Internet drama.
* '''[[Facebook]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.facebook.com/}}) seems stable at the moment.
* '''[[Facebook]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.facebook.com/}}) seems stable at the moment.
* '''[[Fandom]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.fandom.com/}}), the for-pay arm of Wikipedia (just kidding, it's a different company, but shares a lot of people) is a repository of directed, unsubject-to-wikipolitics wikis, many of them intense and completist. It'd be bad for them to go away.
* '''[[Fandom]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.fandom.com/}}), the for-pay arm of Wikipedia (just kidding, it's a different company, but shares a lot of people) is a repository of directed, unsubject-to-wikipolitics wikis, many of them intense and completist. It'd be bad for them to go away.
Line 41: Line 43:
* '''[[Google]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.google.com/}}) wants you to think they will be here forever.
* '''[[Google]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.google.com/}}) wants you to think they will be here forever.
* '''[[h2g2]]''' ({{url|1=https://www.h2g2.com}}) was (among?) the first [https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A550955 online, collaborative encyclopaedia(s)].
* '''[[h2g2]]''' ({{url|1=https://www.h2g2.com}}) was (among?) the first [https://h2g2.com/edited_entry/A550955 online, collaborative encyclopaedia(s)].
* '''[[GBAtemp]]''' ({{url|1=https://GBAtemp.net}}) A popular forums site in the console homebrewing community. Most of GBAtemp is accessible without an account apart from user profiles containing profile posts. It doesn't appear to be in any danger, having been around for 20 years. Also has a Wiki ({{url|1=https://wiki.GBAtemp.net}}) which mentions compatibility about different backup loaders, site history, modchips, and so on.
* '''[http://identifyyourbreyer.com/ Identify Your Breyer]''' - As of August 31st, 2022, "three curators" have come in to save the website. They're currently working on moving site hosts, but as of September 11th, 2022, they needed to push it back "a few weeks". While the fate of the site is still somewhat uncertain, it's no longer in danger of expiring within the next few months.
* '''[http://identifyyourbreyer.com/ Identify Your Breyer]''' - As of August 31st, 2022, "three curators" have come in to save the website. They're currently working on moving site hosts, but as of September 11th, 2022, they needed to push it back "a few weeks". While the fate of the site is still somewhat uncertain, it's no longer in danger of expiring within the next few months.
* '''[[IFTTT]]''' ({{url|1=http://ifttt.com/}}) is still growing.
* '''[[IFTTT]]''' ({{url|1=http://ifttt.com/}}) is still growing.
Line 83: Line 86:


Did someone leave the oven on?
Did someone leave the oven on?
* '''[kirbysrainbowresort.net Kirby's Rainbow Resort]''' is a Kirby fan site that has a significant archive of old fan works and official media that's difficult to find elsewhere. Around the beginning of 2023, the website's forums, Oekaki imageboard, news updates, and other parts of the site have unceremoniously disappeared. The rest of the site hasn't been updated since 2020.


* '''[[Kiwi Farms]]''' ({{url|http://kiwifarms.net/}}, {{url|http://kiwifar.ms/|former alternate .ms domain}}) is a notorious forum where users mock [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], or people who have attracted ridicule because of their behavior or their beliefs. On January 20, 2017, the forum was shut down without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later. As of September 2022, the website has been excluded from the Wayback Machine and the owner is struggling to find a new host due to a [https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/us/citing-imminent-danger-cloudflare-drops-hate-site-kiwi-farms/ar-AA11t2U9 dispute with Cloudflare].
* '''[[Kiwi Farms]]''' ({{url|http://kiwifarms.net/}}, {{url|http://kiwifar.ms/|former alternate .ms domain}}) is a notorious forum where users mock [http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=lolcow "lolcows"], or people who have attracted ridicule because of their behavior or their beliefs. On January 20, 2017, the forum was shut down without a warning by its owner, but was restored three weeks later. As of September 2022, the website has been excluded from the Wayback Machine and the owner is struggling to find a new host due to a [https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/us/citing-imminent-danger-cloudflare-drops-hate-site-kiwi-farms/ar-AA11t2U9 dispute with Cloudflare].


* '''[http://www.ning.com/ Ning]''' in 2010 has laid off 40% of staff and seems to be running out of money [http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/15/nings-bubble-bursts-no-more-free-networks-cuts-40-of-staff/]. There is certainly some networks worth archiving among the 2 million networks[http://blog.ning.com/2010/01/2-million-ning-networks.html] they host. Grouply[http://blog.grouply.com/grouply-welcomes-ning-networks/] and Posterous[http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-commits-to-building-a-ning-blog-imp] say they are going to offer migration tools.
* '''[http://www.ning.com/ Ning]''' in 2010 has laid off 40% of staff and seems to be running out of money [http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/15/nings-bubble-bursts-no-more-free-networks-cuts-40-of-staff/]. There is certainly some networks worth archiving among the 2 million networks[http://blog.ning.com/2010/01/2-million-ning-networks.html] they host. Grouply[http://blog.grouply.com/grouply-welcomes-ning-networks/] and Posterous[http://blog.posterous.com/posterous-commits-to-building-a-ning-blog-imp] say they are going to offer migration tools.
* As of 2014, ScraperWiki Classic is now read-only.  But don’t worry! You can transfer this scraper to Morph.io if you want to continue editing it.
 
* {{As of|2014}}, ScraperWiki Classic is now read-only.  But don’t worry! You can transfer this scraper to Morph.io if you want to continue editing it.


* '''[http://debates.oireachtas.ie/ debates.oireachtas.ie]''' on September 18th, 2012 the Houses of Oireachtas website [http://www.kildarestreet.com/statement2012/ announced] that it would no longer be updating its XML data for Irish parliamentary debates (1919-2012). Access to pre-existing data is still available, but is likely to disappear, if the current trend continues. It would be useful to at least capture the XML data that is there, while it is still available. Here's a [https://archive.org/details/debatesoireachtasie-XML WARC archive] of the XML only.
* '''[http://debates.oireachtas.ie/ debates.oireachtas.ie]''' on September 18th, 2012 the Houses of Oireachtas website [http://www.kildarestreet.com/statement2012/ announced] that it would no longer be updating its XML data for Irish parliamentary debates (1919-2012). Access to pre-existing data is still available, but is likely to disappear, if the current trend continues. It would be useful to at least capture the XML data that is there, while it is still available. Here's a [https://archive.org/details/debatesoireachtasie-XML WARC archive] of the XML only.


* '''[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175 Groklaw]''' will no longer be posting new articles, "due to government monitoring of the internet, particularly e-mail." Whether or not its archives will remain online is unclear, although it does seem rather unlikely it will 100% disappear. OTOH, better safe than sorry. Still up as of October 11th, 2022.
* '''[http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20130818120421175 Groklaw]''' will no longer be posting new articles, "due to government monitoring of the internet, particularly e-mail." Whether or not its archives will remain online is unclear, although it does seem rather unlikely it will 100% disappear. OTOH, better safe than sorry. Still up as of November 28th, 2023.
 
* Strawpoll.me


* '''[http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ World of Spectrum]''''s current administrator announced that [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/52892/had-enough he's ceasing to support the website and forum within 8 weeks] (as of July 3). The future of the website is uncertain. Still up as of October 11th, 2022.
* '''[http://www.worldofspectrum.org/ World of Spectrum]''''s current administrator announced that [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/forums/discussion/52892/had-enough he's ceasing to support the website and forum within 8 weeks] (as of July 3). The future of the website is uncertain. Still up as of October 11th, 2022.
Line 106: Line 110:


* '''[[Twitter]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.twitter.com/}}) is tweaking away, with a dire financial situation and [http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/06/twitter-in-meltdown-as-entire-userbase-revolts/ controversial decisions]. [https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23452196/elon-musk-twitter-employee-meeting-q-and-a Now faces potential bankruptcy after being purchased by Elon Musk].
* '''[[Twitter]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.twitter.com/}}) is tweaking away, with a dire financial situation and [http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/06/twitter-in-meltdown-as-entire-userbase-revolts/ controversial decisions]. [https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23452196/elon-musk-twitter-employee-meeting-q-and-a Now faces potential bankruptcy after being purchased by Elon Musk].
* '''[https://ja.osdn.net/ OSDN]''' is a hosting site for Japan, containing repositories of open-source code and web pages. However, since its acquisition by OSCHINA in 2022, the site has become very unstable, with frequent 504 errors and other issues.
* '''[https://5ch.net 5ch.net]''' 5ch (formerly 2ch), an online forum in operation since May 30, 1999, has been experiencing ongoing instability due to issues such as script-based trolling . Archived posts dating back to 1999 are currently inaccessible, with the administrators citing a physical server failure as the cause. There is no estimated timeframe for their restoration.[https://5ch.net/kakolog.html List of archive servers]
* '''[https://blog.seesaa.jp blog.seesaa.jp]''' Seesaa Inc., the company operating Seesaa Blog was established in 2003 as a blog service provider. It became a subsidiary of Fan Communications in 2017 and was merged into the parent company in 2024. The company, which was in a poor financial state and operating at a loss just before the merger, also ran services like Seesaa Wiki and SS Blog (a business inherited from another company). SS Blog is scheduled to terminate service on March 31, 2025[https://blog-wn.blog.ss-blog.jp/2024-11-15 Notice of Termination of SS Blog Service]
* '''[https://www.zakzak.co.jp zakzak]''' ZakZak, an online news site operated by Sankei Newspaper, announced that it will cease to be updated on 2024/01/31, with no mention of  continued website existence.[https://www.zakzak.co.jp/article/20241001-JR6E6JBXP5CZDHW2QM3IXXTRTA/ Notice of Suspension of Newspaper]
* '''[https://aminoapps.com/ Amino]''' is a fandom based community that hosts millions of pieces of art, literature, and wikis. Several fired site mods have sounded alarms on how the site is on its last legs.
* '''Old websites made by Nintendo Korea''' old websites made by the company, such as https://www.nintendocaution.co.kr/, are in risk of getting deleted if the company decides to delete them.


== Alarm ==
== Alarm ==
Line 114: Line 130:
-->
-->
I smell smoke.
I smell smoke.
* [[Calorie Restriction Society]] [http://www.crsociety.org]. an InvisionPowerBoard forum. See https://www.crsociety.org/topic/18710-crsocietyorg-finally-got-back-online-after-4-months/?do=getNewComment for details. Site went down for 4 months then went back up in October 2024. We still don't know if it may go down again, given that the administrators have gone out of contact and the original person paying for crsociety.org died.


* [[Mozilla Hubs]] [https://hubs.mozilla.com/labs/mozilla-hubs-early-access-release/ Blog mozilla hubs early access release]. Mozilla Hubs is changing their payment structure from open source to a subscription service. They will be deleting open source content.
* [[Mozilla Hubs]] [https://hubs.mozilla.com/labs/mozilla-hubs-early-access-release/ Blog mozilla hubs early access release]. Mozilla Hubs is changing their payment structure from open source to a subscription service. They will be deleting open source content.
Line 125: Line 143:
* [[Yahoo!]] [http://www.yqlblog.net/blog/2013/11/11/y-ahoo-it-url-shortener-end-of-life-announcement/ retired] the y.ahoo.it [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] November 20th 2013 but the shortener is still active.
* [[Yahoo!]] [http://www.yqlblog.net/blog/2013/11/11/y-ahoo-it-url-shortener-end-of-life-announcement/ retired] the y.ahoo.it [[URLTeam|URL shortener]] November 20th 2013 but the shortener is still active.


* CtoSims Has been infected with a Javascript that redirects to different pages, and the owner seems to have not been active for a long time. The entire site now redirects to a placeholder page that says "Coming Soon!". As of December 2016, All Downloads have been taken down as well.
* CtoSims Has been infected with a Javascript that redirects to different pages, and the owner seems to have not been active for a long time. The entire site now redirects to a placeholder page that says "Coming Soon!". {{As of|2016|December}}, All Downloads have been taken down as well.


* [[Giphy]]: Bought by Facebook, to be "integrated" (assimilated) into Instagram https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/facebook-to-buy-giphy
* [[Giphy]]: Bought by Facebook, to be "integrated" (assimilated) into Instagram https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/facebook-to-buy-giphy
Line 132: Line 150:


* [[Surrender at 20]], a popular [[League of Legends]] news and teardown site, has suddenly ceased activity on November 14th, 2022. Site owner moobeat posted a tweet [https://twitter.com/moobeat/status/1592230197729837059 saying "life sucks major shit right now"] and alluded to some personal woes he's been going through. moobeat's wife, Aznbeat, posted a comment on November 25th on the site's latest post [https://www.surrenderat20.net/2022/11/winter-skin-splash-preview.html#comment-6050163346 stating that while she helped with running the site to pay their bills after moobeat was hospitalized for a while, she otherwise "had no interest in League, nor will I"] and that "unless by some miracle he ever decides to take some responsibility for it, then don't expect any more coverage from us".
* [[Surrender at 20]], a popular [[League of Legends]] news and teardown site, has suddenly ceased activity on November 14th, 2022. Site owner moobeat posted a tweet [https://twitter.com/moobeat/status/1592230197729837059 saying "life sucks major shit right now"] and alluded to some personal woes he's been going through. moobeat's wife, Aznbeat, posted a comment on November 25th on the site's latest post [https://www.surrenderat20.net/2022/11/winter-skin-splash-preview.html#comment-6050163346 stating that while she helped with running the site to pay their bills after moobeat was hospitalized for a while, she otherwise "had no interest in League, nor will I"] and that "unless by some miracle he ever decides to take some responsibility for it, then don't expect any more coverage from us".
* {{url|https://www.tinaja.com/}} Owner is deceased.


== See Also ==
== See Also ==

Latest revision as of 14:50, 24 July 2025

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

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

Still Alive

Owned by Yahoo! Imminent Demise!

  • Yahoo and AOL properties are being sold by Verizon to hedge fund Apollo in 2021. The news comes immediately after the closure of Yahoo! Answers and will presumably be swiftly followed by radical disruption for the sake of short-term cash milking.[1]
  • Flickr contains billions of files, hundreds millions of which are under a Creative Commons license or stored there by many museums and other cultural institutions. The site was tumblr-ised in 2013 and has been poorly functional ever since; pro users were removed, so it doesn't yet have a business model. Additionally, it's owned by Yahoo!, need to say more?!
    • Flickr was sold to SmugMug in 2018, purged the biggest non-paying and non-freely licensed accounts and switched to a more predictable subscription-based model.

Watchlist

Endangered

Did someone leave the oven on?

  • [kirbysrainbowresort.net Kirby's Rainbow Resort] is a Kirby fan site that has a significant archive of old fan works and official media that's difficult to find elsewhere. Around the beginning of 2023, the website's forums, Oekaki imageboard, news updates, and other parts of the site have unceremoniously disappeared. The rest of the site hasn't been updated since 2020.
  • Ning in 2010 has laid off 40% of staff and seems to be running out of money [1]. There is certainly some networks worth archiving among the 2 million networks[2] they host. Grouply[3] and Posterous[4] say they are going to offer migration tools.
  • As of 2014[update], ScraperWiki Classic is now read-only. But don’t worry! You can transfer this scraper to Morph.io if you want to continue editing it.
  • debates.oireachtas.ie on September 18th, 2012 the Houses of Oireachtas website announced that it would no longer be updating its XML data for Irish parliamentary debates (1919-2012). Access to pre-existing data is still available, but is likely to disappear, if the current trend continues. It would be useful to at least capture the XML data that is there, while it is still available. Here's a WARC archive of the XML only.
  • Groklaw will no longer be posting new articles, "due to government monitoring of the internet, particularly e-mail." Whether or not its archives will remain online is unclear, although it does seem rather unlikely it will 100% disappear. OTOH, better safe than sorry. Still up as of November 28th, 2023.
  • The Centralstation Community has closed. The site is a UK-based social network for artists and creatives that provides hosting for content and portfolio. Users are being advised to back up their work as the new version of their platform will rely on existing media hosting sites like Flickr, Vimeo, and Soundcloud. Still up as of October 11th, 2022.
  • Most of the paid staff at The Escapist has been "relieved of their duties" as of October 20, 2017, and the future and longevity of the site is uncertain; it's currently run mostly through volunteer efforts.
  • Yelp, Inc. lost 30% of its advertisers and people don't seem too happy about it.
  • Cheezburger https://www.cheezburger.com/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb], once a “network” of meme blogs but now one single centralized site, has barely been maintained by its parent company (Cracked.com) for years, with the account creation system being broken since at least 2019. A lot of old meme images (of the Impact-font/rage-face/advice-animal variety) can be found here, dating back to 2007, and it would be a loss to the unique culture of the Internet if all these were to disappear. A lot of its contemporaries (such as Lolcats.com) have been lost to domain expiries and the ensuing cyber-squatters. There are still some dedicated users posting brand-new meme material here, but some people held on to GeoCities till the bitter end as well.
  • OSDN is a hosting site for Japan, containing repositories of open-source code and web pages. However, since its acquisition by OSCHINA in 2022, the site has become very unstable, with frequent 504 errors and other issues.
  • 5ch.net 5ch (formerly 2ch), an online forum in operation since May 30, 1999, has been experiencing ongoing instability due to issues such as script-based trolling . Archived posts dating back to 1999 are currently inaccessible, with the administrators citing a physical server failure as the cause. There is no estimated timeframe for their restoration.List of archive servers
  • blog.seesaa.jp Seesaa Inc., the company operating Seesaa Blog was established in 2003 as a blog service provider. It became a subsidiary of Fan Communications in 2017 and was merged into the parent company in 2024. The company, which was in a poor financial state and operating at a loss just before the merger, also ran services like Seesaa Wiki and SS Blog (a business inherited from another company). SS Blog is scheduled to terminate service on March 31, 2025Notice of Termination of SS Blog Service
  • zakzak ZakZak, an online news site operated by Sankei Newspaper, announced that it will cease to be updated on 2024/01/31, with no mention of continued website existence.Notice of Suspension of Newspaper
  • Amino is a fandom based community that hosts millions of pieces of art, literature, and wikis. Several fired site mods have sounded alarms on how the site is on its last legs.
  • Old websites made by Nintendo Korea old websites made by the company, such as https://www.nintendocaution.co.kr/, are in risk of getting deleted if the company decides to delete them.

Alarm

I smell smoke.

  • The Correspondent, From 30 Sep 19 to 1 Jan 21 The Correspondent published member-funded journalism about the forces that shape our world. The organization has shut down[6] and has put up a read-only archive of all publications that were previously only accessible to paying members. As keeping such an archive running will probably cost someone money it might not stay online for many more years.
  • CtoSims Has been infected with a Javascript that redirects to different pages, and the owner seems to have not been active for a long time. The entire site now redirects to a placeholder page that says "Coming Soon!". As of December 2016[update], All Downloads have been taken down as well.
  • Dayviews (http://dayviews.com/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]), the Swedish photo diary community contains quite a bit of 00s Swedish "youth culture". It's had "technical problems" for months now and has said that "many old photos were lost".

See Also

References

  1. ↑ https://www.reuters.com/technology/apollo-acquire-verizons-media-assets-5-bln-2021-05-03/[IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
  2. ↑ [Wikipedia Wikipedia][IA•Wcite•.today•MemWeb]
  3. ↑ http://gamemakerblog.com/2014/10/04/its-official-digital-store-will-replace-gamemaker-sandbox/
Retrieved from "https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Alive..._OR_ARE_THEY&oldid=56599"