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Its site is mostly HTML, but there is a bit of Javascript interspersed that requires some custom grab logic.
Its site is mostly HTML, but there is a bit of Javascript interspersed that requires some custom grab logic.


Prior users of Egloos can {{url|https://egloosbackup.egloos.com/|request an export of their blogs}} up until December 18, 2023.
The grab started with one tracker item per user (plus another for themes). Because the long tail made these look implausible to save in time, and because single transient errors (which the site was full of) would lose all the work of one of these, we switched to item-per-URL. Very late in the grab, we discovered that what looked like a capacity issue of the targeted was actually poor international peering on the part of its ISP - a South Korean warrior ran much faster than the rest. This came too late, though, and we saved (guessing) maybe between 30 and 65% of the sites. Media and RSS feeds stayed up, so we got those afterwards, where we knew about them.
 
Users can {{url|https://egloosbackup.egloos.com/|request an export of their blogs}} up until December 18, 2023.


== External links ==
== External links ==

Revision as of 12:48, 29 June 2023

Egloos
Egloos logo
URL http://egloos.com/
Status Offline
Archiving status Partially saved
Archiving type DPoS
Project source egloos-grab
Project tracker egloos
IRC channel #eggos (on hackint)
Project lead User:OrIdow6
Data[how to use] archiveteam_egloos

Egloos was a South Korean blog host created in 2003 and announced that it would shut down on June 16, 2023.[1][2]

Its site is mostly HTML, but there is a bit of Javascript interspersed that requires some custom grab logic.

The grab started with one tracker item per user (plus another for themes). Because the long tail made these look implausible to save in time, and because single transient errors (which the site was full of) would lose all the work of one of these, we switched to item-per-URL. Very late in the grab, we discovered that what looked like a capacity issue of the targeted was actually poor international peering on the part of its ISP - a South Korean warrior ran much faster than the rest. This came too late, though, and we saved (guessing) maybe between 30 and 65% of the sites. Media and RSS feeds stayed up, so we got those afterwards, where we knew about them.

Users can request an export of their blogs[IAWcite.todayMemWeb] up until December 18, 2023.

External links

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