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* '''[[Reddit]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.reddit.com/}}) is where many of the users have now migrated. Stable for now, but team is small.  
* '''[[Reddit]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.reddit.com/}}) is where many of the users have now migrated. 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.
* '''[[Tumblr]]''' ({{url|1=http://tumblr.com}}) is a highly popular blogging platform which was bought by [[Yahoo]]! in May, 2013.
* '''[[TVTropes]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage}}) is a popular wiki dedicated to finding recurring patterns in fiction, and discussing fiction in general. No word on whether there are backups. The administrators have a tendency to delete things indiscriminately, usually to save on disk space: article edit histories are frequently purged, and old forum threads have been known to get deleted mercilessly. A [http://archive.org/details/archiveteam-tvtropes-2012-09 backup] is now available.  
* '''[[TVTropes]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/HomePage}}) is a popular wiki dedicated to finding recurring patterns in fiction, and discussing fiction in general. No word on whether there are backups. The administrators have a tendency to delete things indiscriminately, usually to save on disk space: article edit histories are frequently purged, and old forum threads have been known to get deleted mercilessly. A [http://archive.org/details/archiveteam-tvtropes-2012-09 backup] is now available.  
* '''[[Twitter]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.twitter.com/}}) is tweaking away.
* '''[[Twitter]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.twitter.com/}}) is tweaking away.

Revision as of 12:39, 22 May 2013

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.

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