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Sounds like a job for archive.org
by Medox 4y ago
Sounds like a job for archive.org
- esskay 4y agoThat doesn't solve the issue of the millions of embeds and links though.
- account42 4y agoIt's kind of sad that browsers still have no concept of the passage of time (except to intentionally break things for security). One of the many things that a browser focused on being a browser for hyperlinked documents could do better than our current app delivery platforms calling themselves browsers.
- BlueTemplar 4y agoWhy not ? (Besides that of course it would be probably easier for the Archive to deal with multimedia inside the same website.)
- esskay 4y agoWhat do you mean why not? If a forum embeds an image from imgur and imgur ceases to exist the image stops working. It doesn't matter if archive.org has a copy, you wont be able to see it without manually going to archive.org to find every image by its former embed url (which likley isnt archived as thats a different url to the one you see on their site).
- BlueTemplar 4y agoWait, why would it be a different Uniform Resource Locator ?
- BlueTemplar 4y agoYeah, I was really impressed how they managed to get a large chunk of Xfire backed up with only 2 days warning before shutdown ! https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Xfire https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Xfire And that was for video too ! (Hopefully YouTube shutting down will give more warning... speaking of which, has anyone backed up Google Video before it shut down ? I have a collection of links in a forum post that would be nice to have back up and working again.) Still, imgur is pretty big these days, this might be quite expensive (how do they stay afloat, BTW ?).