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* '''[[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 it's 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 it's 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.
* '''[[e-shuushuu]]''' ({{url|1=http://e-shuushuu.net/}}) is an anime image board with useful metadata and a handful of images that are hard to find elsewhere. The community is fairly lively, new images are added daily and the site is often reskinned to commemorate holidays and special occasions, but at the same time, [http://e-shuushuu.net/donations.php its donation page] has not been updated since early 2013
* '''[[e-shuushuu]]''' ({{url|1=http://e-shuushuu.net/}}) is an anime image board with useful metadata and a handful of images that are hard to find elsewhere. The community is fairly lively, new images are added daily and the site is often reskinned to commemorate holidays and special occasions, but at the same time, [http://e-shuushuu.net/donations.php its donation page] has not been updated since early 2013 and there seems to have been no recorded activity from the site's creator since 2014
* '''[[Facebook]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.facebook.com/}}) seems stable at the moment.
* '''[[Facebook]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.facebook.com/}}) seems stable at the moment.
* '''[[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.

Revision as of 04:28, 16 November 2016

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!

  • 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?!

Watchlist

Endangered

Did someone leave the oven on?

  • 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.
  • Convozine hasn't been active lately. Their last reply to a support question was in 2012, their last update in the "News" section was December 2011, and their last blog post was in January 2013. (See [5] and [6].)
  • 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.
  • CtoSims Has been infected with a Javascript that redirects to different pages, and the owner seems to have not been active for at least a month. Very little changes have been made to the site for a while. More information here: http://www.urlvoid.com/scan/ctosims.com/ and at virustotal and https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/ by typing the website in.

Alarm

I smell smoke.

See Also

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