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Modern Web3.0 portals that built on async JS will be impossible to archive without hitting API limits or resource quotas. New Reddit(without the old.reddit.com
by FrozenVoid 7y ago
Modern Web3.0 portals that built on async JS will be impossible to archive without hitting API limits or resource quotas.
New Reddit(without the old.reddit.com interface) for example.
Many niche subreddits contain lots of information that would be lost if reddit dies(or just deletes these subreddits).
Youtube is unarchivable in principle due high amount of storage required(even thinking of 640x480) and yet it still contains tons of unique content found nowhere else from rare AMVs(that survived prior deletions) to instructions to repair telescopes - or basically anything in video form that doesn't have backups(i.e.not uploaded to other videos sites).
4chan and similar sites are archived by several sites in haphazard manner(only boards they like) and yet it a huge chunk of internet culture that is going to be lost if these sites die(and its more probable than Reddit due less funding).
Usenet is slowly fading into obscurity and dependence on Google Groups.
Many forums that today exist, will not exist forever: yet very few are archived anywhere else.
Other forum-like sites like Stackoverflow and Quora might disappear in the future with nothing replacing them. Github is subject to Microsoft whims and positions on open-source. Wikipedia and various wiki farm sites don't have much revenue streams.
Practically every major website we take for granted is vulnerable - people thought Yahoo Groups was going to last forever.