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

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* '''[[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.
* '''[[Formspring]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.formspring.me/}}) is a popular website centered around answering questions. It is ''extremely'' user-unfriendly with regards to seeing old questions, and no known backup tools exist. "As of January 2013, accounts that have not been active in over 18 months may be automatically deleted. If this is your account, you may login within the next 24 hours to stop this account from being permanently deleted."  
* '''[[Formspring]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.formspring.me/}}) is a popular website centered around answering questions. It is ''extremely'' user-unfriendly with regards to seeing old questions, and no known backup tools exist.  
** The message "As of January 2013, accounts that have not been active in over 18 months may be automatically deleted. If this is your account, you may login within the next 24 hours to stop this account from being permanently deleted." appears now on accounts inactive for at least 18 months (as explained by Formspring's technical support in a private conversation.)
* '''[[Friendfeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.friendfeed.com/}}) is a happy clam who recently shacked up with Facebook.
* '''[[Friendfeed]]''' ({{url|1=http://www.friendfeed.com/}}) is a happy clam who recently shacked up with Facebook.
* '''[[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.

Revision as of 23:18, 30 January 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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