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=== Owned by [[Yahoo!]] Imminent Demise! ===
=== Owned by [[Yahoo!]] Imminent Demise! ===


* '''[[Flickr]]''' contains billions of files, hundreds millions of which are under a Creative Commons license or stored there by many museums and other cultural institutions. The site was tumblr-ised in 2013 and has been poorly functional ever since; pro users were removed, so it doesn't yet have a business model. Additionally, it's owned by [[Yahoo!]], need to say more?!
* '''Yahoo and AOL''' properties are being sold by Verizon to hedge fund Apollo in 2021. The news comes immediately after the closure of [[Yahoo! Answers]] and will presumably be swiftly followed by radical disruption for the sake of short-term cash milking.<ref>{{url|https://www.reuters.com/technology/apollo-acquire-verizons-media-assets-5-bln-2021-05-03/}}</ref>
* <del>'''[[Flickr]]''' contains billions of files, hundreds millions of which are under a Creative Commons license or stored there by many museums and other cultural institutions. The site was tumblr-ised in 2013 and has been poorly functional ever since; pro users were removed, so it doesn't yet have a business model. Additionally, it's owned by [[Yahoo!]], need to say more?!</del>
** 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 ===
=== Watchlist ===


* '''[[Academic Earth]]''' ({{url|1=http://academicearth.org/}}) has been worryingly unloved for a while, and holds a mountain of free education that's invaluable to the world.
* '''[[Academic Earth]]''' ({{url|1=http://academicearth.org/}}) has been worryingly unloved for a while, and holds a mountain of free education that's invaluable to the world.
* '''[[A-Infos]]''' ({{url|1=http://ainfos.ca/}}) a multi-lingual news service by, for, and about anarchists. Have stuff archived since the 90's that isn't available anywhere else.
* '''[[Encyclopedia Astronautica]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.astronautix.com/}}) is the most comprehensive collection of the history of space travel.  '''Period.'''  Seriously, the official NASA history folks will refer you this website if they can't answer your questions.  However, Mark Wade (the sole creator/maintainer) abandoned his blog at the end of 2007, and the Encyclopedia has not been updated since May 2008, despite much happening in the space exploration world since then. A [https://archive.org/details/EncyclopediaAstronautica backup] was made of the site as of 28/01/2017.
* '''[[Encyclopedia Astronautica]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.astronautix.com/}}) is the most comprehensive collection of the history of space travel.  '''Period.'''  Seriously, the official NASA history folks will refer you this website if they can't answer your questions.  However, Mark Wade (the sole creator/maintainer) abandoned his blog at the end of 2007, and the Encyclopedia has not been updated since May 2008, despite much happening in the space exploration world since then. A [https://archive.org/details/EncyclopediaAstronautica backup] was made of the site as of 28/01/2017.
* '''[[Angelfire]]''' has been in constant decline for many years now.
* '''[[Angelfire]]''' has been in constant decline for many years now.
* '''[[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.
* '''[[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.
* '''[[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.
* '''[[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
* '''[[Dayviews]]''' ({{url|1=http://dayviews.com/}}), the Swedish photo diary community contains quite a bit of 00s Swedish "youth culture", but is at risk of being shutdown when you least suspect it due to its sinking user rate.
* '''[[Dayviews]]''' ({{url|1=http://dayviews.com/}}), the Swedish photo diary community contains quite a bit of 00s Swedish "youth culture", but is at risk of being shutdown when you least suspect it due to its sinking user rate.
* '''[[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.
* '''[[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.
* '''[[FanFiction]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.fanfiction.net/}}) represents many thousands of user-generated stories, essays and huge amounts of work.
* '''[[FanFiction]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.fanfiction.net/}}) represents many thousands of user-generated stories, essays and huge amounts of work.
* '''[[Forrst]]''' ({{url|1=http://zurb.com/forrst}}) was shut down on April 14th, 2014, but all posts were archived by Forrst.
* '''[[Forrst]]''' ({{url|1=http://zurb.com/forrst}}) was shut down on April 14th, 2014, but all posts were archived by Forrst.
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* '''[[JanusVR]]''' is a company that aims to re-imagine the web as "rooms" interconnected with portals. These "rooms" can be hosted anywhere. Though the company and its technology are still fairly new, there are already cases of rooms with missing assets or even entire links broken, and [[ArchiveBot]]'s ability to grab these rooms is somewhat limited.
* '''[[JanusVR]]''' is a company that aims to re-imagine the web as "rooms" interconnected with portals. These "rooms" can be hosted anywhere. Though the company and its technology are still fairly new, there are already cases of rooms with missing assets or even entire links broken, and [[ArchiveBot]]'s ability to grab these rooms is somewhat limited.
*'''[[JSFiddle]]''' ({{url|1=http://jsfiddle.net/}}) is referenced in many StackOverflow answers, as well as other forums, etc. It shows no signs of going away, but should we archive it just in case?
*'''[[JSFiddle]]''' ({{url|1=http://jsfiddle.net/}}) is referenced in many StackOverflow answers, as well as other forums, etc. It shows no signs of going away, but should we archive it just in case?
* '''[[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.
*'''[[Know Your Meme]]''' ({{url|1=http://knowyourmeme.com/}}) is at this point the de facto central repository for information on internet memes and culture. It is as popular as ever at the moment, but even with this popularity, former owners Rocketboom had trouble financing it. In the spring of 2011 was sold to Cheezburger Networks, a site which has been known to "reorganize" its properties, sometimes with a detrimental effect on content. Though it was quite a different story, I might remind people what happened to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]].
*'''[[Know Your Meme]]''' ({{url|1=http://knowyourmeme.com/}}) is at this point the de facto central repository for information on internet memes and culture. It is as popular as ever at the moment, but even with this popularity, former owners Rocketboom had trouble financing it. In the spring of 2011 was sold to Cheezburger Networks, a site which has been known to "reorganize" its properties, sometimes with a detrimental effect on content. Though it was quite a different story, I might remind people what happened to [[Encyclopedia Dramatica]].
* '''[[Last.fm]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.last.fm/}}) is being cloned by free software developers in the form of [http://libre.fm Libre.fm] -- they have a tool, [http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/trunk/lastscrape/lastscrape.py?root=librefm Lastscrape] which can get all your listening data out into a tab delimited text file.
* '''[[Last.fm]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.last.fm/}}) is being cloned by free software developers in the form of [http://libre.fm Libre.fm] -- they have a tool, [http://svn.savannah.gnu.org/viewvc/*checkout*/trunk/lastscrape/lastscrape.py?root=librefm Lastscrape] which can get all your listening data out into a tab delimited text file.
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* '''[[Pixiv]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pixiv.net/}}) and '''[[deviantArt]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.deviantart.com/}}) are the largest Japanese and American (respectively) fanart (and valuable art in general) collections on the internet. Most of works are possibly included in [https://saucenao.com/status.html many boorus]. Someone also mentioned [http://www.minitokyo.net/ Minitokyo] around here somewhere. [[Internet Archive|IA]] has a 2008 [https://archive.org/details/mt-walls-2008-01-01 wallpaper dump] from there.
* '''[[Pixiv]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pixiv.net/}}) and '''[[deviantArt]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.deviantart.com/}}) are the largest Japanese and American (respectively) fanart (and valuable art in general) collections on the internet. Most of works are possibly included in [https://saucenao.com/status.html many boorus]. Someone also mentioned [http://www.minitokyo.net/ Minitokyo] around here somewhere. [[Internet Archive|IA]] has a 2008 [https://archive.org/details/mt-walls-2008-01-01 wallpaper dump] from there.
* '''[[Pouet]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pouet.net/}}) is an important site of the demoscene. It indexes and ranks demoscene productions ('prods') and also includes a free-for-all BBS-style forum. [https://demozoo.org/ Demozoo] is a site in the same vein with a slightly different focus. They both use the same ISP iirc so if that goes down a lot of user created content is lost.
* '''[[Pouet]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.pouet.net/}}) is an important site of the demoscene. It indexes and ranks demoscene productions ('prods') and also includes a free-for-all BBS-style forum. [https://demozoo.org/ Demozoo] is a site in the same vein with a slightly different focus. They both use the same ISP iirc so if that goes down a lot of user created content is lost.
* '''[[Reddit]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.reddit.com/}}) is a content aggregator where [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Issues_relating_to_former_Digg_website many Digg users migrated in 2010]. Attracted controversy in July 2015, with accusations of [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/amageddon censorship] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_banning shadowbanning]. Stable for now, but team is small.
* '''[[Reddit]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.reddit.com/}}) is a content aggregator where [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digg#Issues_relating_to_former_Digg_website many Digg users migrated in 2010]. Attracted controversy in July 2015, with accusations of [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/amageddon censorship] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stealth_banning shadowbanning]. Many controversial subreddits (with up to hundreds of thousands subscribers each) are "quarantined"; many of these have subsequently been deleted. Stable for now, but team is small.
* '''[[SourceForge]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.sourceforge.net/}}) is a critical repository of open source code, information, and webpages. It is mirrored and maintained, but there are sure to be parts that are neither.
* '''[[SourceForge]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.sourceforge.net/}}) is a critical repository of open source code, information, and webpages. It is mirrored and maintained, but there are sure to be parts that are neither.
* '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.thepiratebay.org/}}) is one of the largest and most popular torrent search engines. It's still having persistent legal problems. The tracker went down in November 2012, but the site still serves torrents and magnet links. If a torrent is lost, it becomes impossible to connect to other computers distributing the shared files. Considering that there are links to TPB ''all over this wiki'', this site is pretty dang important. After they were raided in December 2014, a project known as [http://openbay.isohunt.to/ The Open Bay] was launched, which lets anybody host a mirror of TPB with automatic database updates, so even if TPB goes down again, temporarily or not, its database is still available.
* '''[[The Pirate Bay]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.thepiratebay.org/}}) is one of the largest and most popular torrent search engines. It's still having persistent legal problems. The tracker went down in November 2012, but the site still serves torrents and magnet links. If a torrent is lost, it becomes impossible to connect to other computers distributing the shared files. Considering that there are links to TPB ''all over this wiki'', this site is pretty dang important. After they were raided in December 2014, a project known as [http://openbay.isohunt.to/ The Open Bay] was launched, which lets anybody host a mirror of TPB with automatic database updates, so even if TPB goes down again, temporarily or not, its database is still available.
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* '''[[Twitter]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.twitter.com/}}) is tweaking away, with a dire financial situation and [http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/02/06/twitter-in-meltdown-as-entire-userbase-revolts/ controversial decisions].
* '''[[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].
* '''[[Urban Dictionary]]''' ({{URL|https://www.urbandictionary.com/}}) is "a crowdsourced online dictionary for slang words and phrases"<ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Urban_Dictionary&oldid=926230888|Wikipedia}}</ref>. It's financed by ads and a web store, and there are no signs of serious trouble as of late 2019.
* '''[[Urban Dictionary]]''' ({{URL|https://www.urbandictionary.com/}}) is "a crowdsourced online dictionary for slang words and phrases"<ref>{{URL|https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Urban_Dictionary&oldid=926230888|Wikipedia}}</ref>. It's financed by ads and a web store, and there are no signs of serious trouble as of late 2019.
* '''[[Voat]]''' ({{url|1=https://voat.co/}}) is a content aggegator that gained a niche fanbase in June 2015 after a controversy on [[Reddit]]. A "Days Remaining" countdown appeared on the front page in February 2016 and [https://voat.co/v/whatever/comments/943274 has been confirmed] to be the number of startup credit days remaining, which were depleted in June 15, 2016. Voat relies on donations to run.
* '''[[WebCite]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.webcitation.org/}}) itself seems to be having trouble with funding, and is facing "possible discontinuation." As this site serves as a stable reference for fleeting Web references, it would be pretty disastrous if it went away.
* '''[[WebCite]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.webcitation.org/}}) itself seems to be having trouble with funding, and is facing "possible discontinuation." As this site serves as a stable reference for fleeting Web references, it would be pretty disastrous if it went away.
* '''[[whitehouse.gov]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.whitehouse.gov/}}) is overhauled every time a new US president assumes office and changes continuously during the term. Old versions are preserved thanks to the [http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/ephemera_vs_the_law/ Presidential Records Act] (e.g. [http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/ George W. Bush's]), but we also want to watch out for site changes / disappeared pages that were embarrassing or whatnot.
* '''[[whitehouse.gov]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.whitehouse.gov/}}) is overhauled every time a new US president assumes office and changes continuously during the term. Old versions are preserved thanks to the [http://kitenet.net/~joey/blog/entry/ephemera_vs_the_law/ Presidential Records Act] (e.g. [http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/ George W. Bush's]), but we also want to watch out for site changes / disappeared pages that were embarrassing or whatnot.
* '''[[Wikia]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wikia.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.
* '''[[WikiLeaks]]''' ({{url|1=http://wikileaks.org/}}) contains several thousand leaked documents from sources such as the Iraq War and the cables famously known under the label 'Cablegate'. Due to the content on the website, and that PayPal and Amazon (very) quickly dropped their hosting for them during Cablegate's opening days, it should be considered a potential target for any number of government committees for a quick shutdown. They have an uncertain financial situation, and the site was inaccessible for some time in 2010.
* '''[[WikiLeaks]]''' ({{url|1=http://wikileaks.org/}}) contains several thousand leaked documents from sources such as the Iraq War and the cables famously known under the label 'Cablegate'. Due to the content on the website, and that PayPal and Amazon (very) quickly dropped their hosting for them during Cablegate's opening days, it should be considered a potential target for any number of government committees for quick shutdown. They have an uncertain financial situation, and the site was inaccessible for some time in 2010.
* '''[[Wikidot]]''' ({{url|1=https://www.wikidot.com/}}) has not had development work for years, there is no official presence on their [http://community.wikidot.com/forum:recent-posts support forum], just many complaints about the difficulty contacted staff, even from those with paid accounts. Backup and wiki conversion tools are poor, services like search and anti-spam bots have problems for some time, and the site has been [https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5228862.0 up for sale] since February 2020.
* '''[[Wikipedia]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wikipedia.org/}}) will surely be here forever and ever! Fortunately, we don't have to take their word for it as they offer dumps of the data minus the photos. However no-one has verified that Wikipedia can actually be restored from these dumps. If disaster strikes then we could discover a serious problem.
** [[SCP Foundation]] is hosted on Wikidot. They plan on moving off of the platform and there are multiple archives, but there are still over 10 years' worth of creative writing that could be lost forever if Wikidot were to shut down.
* '''[[Wikipedia]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.wikipedia.org/}}) will surely be here forever and ever! Fortunately, we don't have to take their word for it as they offer dumps of the data minus the photos. However, no-one has verified that Wikipedia can actually be restored from these dumps. If disaster strikes then we could discover a serious problem.
* '''[[Writing]]''' ({{url|1=http://Writing.com/}}) A website for writing that was big in the 2000's. More and more restricted to guests and free users, as they are in need of money to keep the site running. Less and less popular for that reason


== Endangered ==
== Endangered ==


Did someone leave the oven on?
Did someone leave the oven on?
* '''[[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://forums.bigfishgames.com/ Big Fish Games Forums]''' - the forum was made read-only on April 30, 2018. While Big Fish Games claimed at the time that the forums will remain viewable, the site is likely to vanish in the future.
* '''[http://identifyyourbreyer.com/ Identify Your Breyer]''' Janice, the administrator and curator of this archive passed away very recently (between 8-12 June 2021), leaving the site in a state of limbo.  She'd been ill for several months and was in the ICU at the time of her passing.  Nobody else seems to know how to log into the web server (hosted at websitewelcome.com) so it's unknown where the backups are (if there are any) or if it's possible to download the entire site from the back-end.  Thus, we don't know how long the site will be up (hosting bills are now in an indeterminent state) and the domain registration (through Tucows) will expire on 2021-10-03T23:28:16Z.  Identify Your Breyer is a popular and busy community for Breyer horse collectors and modders with a great deal of information of use to the collector's community.


* '''[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.
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* [[The Correspondent]], From 30 Sep 19 to 1 Jan 21 [https://thecorrespondent.com The Correspondent] published member-funded journalism about the forces that shape our world. The organization has shut down[https://thecorrespondent.com/834] and has put up a read-only archive of all publications that were previously only accessible to paying members. As keeping such an archive running will probably cost someone money it might not stay online for many more years.
* YoyoGames, developer of the GameMaker application, is planning to retire the old "'''[[GameMaker Sandbox]]'''" game hosting website in favor of the "GameMaker: Player" service, by late October.<ref>http://gamemakerblog.com/2014/10/04/its-official-digital-store-will-replace-gamemaker-sandbox/</ref> [http://help.yoyogames.com/entries/101815476-GameMaker-Player-FAQs "Sandbox content will remain available for a period of time until the GameMaker: Player is fully live."]
* YoyoGames, developer of the GameMaker application, is planning to retire the old "'''[[GameMaker Sandbox]]'''" game hosting website in favor of the "GameMaker: Player" service, by late October.<ref>http://gamemakerblog.com/2014/10/04/its-official-digital-store-will-replace-gamemaker-sandbox/</ref> [http://help.yoyogames.com/entries/101815476-GameMaker-Player-FAQs "Sandbox content will remain available for a period of time until the GameMaker: Player is fully live."]


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* [[YTMND]] - supposed to be "closing down soon" in [https://gizmodo.com/who-killed-ytmnd-1785765611 2016], but still up 2 years later.
* [[YTMND]] - supposed to be "closing down soon" in [https://gizmodo.com/who-killed-ytmnd-1785765611 2016], but still up 2 years later.
* [[Giphy]]: Bought by Facebook, to be "integrated" (assimilated) into Instagram https://news.knowyourmeme.com/news/facebook-to-buy-giphy
*[[CodePlex]]: Read-only archive shutdown has been announced to happen in July.


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

Revision as of 00:43, 19 September 2022

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?

  • Big Fish Games Forums - the forum was made read-only on April 30, 2018. While Big Fish Games claimed at the time that the forums will remain viewable, the site is likely to vanish in the future.
  • Identify Your Breyer Janice, the administrator and curator of this archive passed away very recently (between 8-12 June 2021), leaving the site in a state of limbo. She'd been ill for several months and was in the ICU at the time of her passing. Nobody else seems to know how to log into the web server (hosted at websitewelcome.com) so it's unknown where the backups are (if there are any) or if it's possible to download the entire site from the back-end. Thus, we don't know how long the site will be up (hosting bills are now in an indeterminent state) and the domain registration (through Tucows) will expire on 2021-10-03T23:28:16Z. Identify Your Breyer is a popular and busy community for Breyer horse collectors and modders with a great deal of information of use to the collector's community.
  • Ning in 2010 has laid off 40% of staff and seems to be running out of money [1]. There is certainly some networks worth archiving among the 2 million networks[2] they host. Grouply[3] and Posterous[4] say they are going to offer migration tools.
  • As of 2014, ScraperWiki Classic is now read-only. But don’t worry! You can transfer this scraper to Morph.io if you want to continue editing it.
  • debates.oireachtas.ie on September 18th, 2012 the Houses of Oireachtas website announced that it would no longer be updating its XML data for Irish parliamentary debates (1919-2012). Access to pre-existing data is still available, but is likely to disappear, if the current trend continues. It would be useful to at least capture the XML data that is there, while it is still available. Here's a WARC archive of the XML only.
  • ownlog.com - once one of the most popular and oldest blog platform in Poland seems to be dying slowly - no development and actualizations except most critical maintenance.
  • Groklaw will no longer be posting new articles, "due to government monitoring of the internet, particularly e-mail." Whether or not its archives will remain online is unclear, although it does seem rather unlikely it will 100% disappear. OTOH, better safe than sorry.
  • Seene (https://seene.co/u/docpop/[IAWcite.todayMemWeb]) "lets you capture and share a new kind of 3D photo that brings together image, depth and movement to create a richer, more interactive experience, all on your iPhone." Unique content, but recently acquired by SnapChat - no new product updates since 2015. Likely to shut soon, unique and cool content.
  • Strawpoll.me
  • The Centralstation Community has closed. The site is a UK-based social network for artists and creatives that provides hosting for content and portfolio. Users are being advised to back up their work as the new version of their platform will rely on existing media hosting sites like Flickr, Vimeo, and Soundcloud.
  • Most of the paid staff at The Escapist has been "relieved of their duties" as of October 20, 2017, and the future and longevity of the site is uncertain; it's currently run mostly through volunteer efforts.
  • Yelp, Inc. lost 30% of its advertisers and people don't seem too happy about it.

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[5] 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, All Downloads have been taken down as well.
  • YTMND - supposed to be "closing down soon" in 2016, but still up 2 years later.
  • CodePlex: Read-only archive shutdown has been announced to happen in July.

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