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From the article: 'Stories slated to be “deprecated” are archived using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and authors are alerted at least 10 days in adv

From the article: 'Stories slated to be “deprecated” are archived using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and authors are alerted at least 10 days in advance, according to the memo.'

LordShredda 3y ago
Offloading trash to an already strained organisation. are they donating any help or is it just taking advantage of charity?
- Espionage724 3y ago
  Lmao there's no winning with you people :p Don't worry, Wayback is capable of telling CNET where to go if they were really concerned. If anything they should be thankful for the newly-generated interest that a major company would use them instead of some randoms cherry-picking sites for arguments.
  - em-bee 3y ago
    yes, this greatly legitimizes the wayback archive.
- renewiltord 3y ago
  I didn't know they were strained. Probably best to block them so they don't spend resources on unimportant things. You can find a few UA strings here https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/bot-detail?bot=archive.org_bot https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/bot-detail?bot=archive.o... Ultimately, it looks like they do respect the `archive.org_bot` string so if you want to help the strained organization, probably best to block it as well. You can also save them some space, it appears, by uploading a file on your website asking them not to retain it and then sending an email to them. See https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/128352 https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/128352 For now, I just blocked the bot, but when I have some time maybe I'll ask them to delete the data. Hopefully, with a little community effort we can reduce the strain on them so they can spend their limited resources reasonably.
qingcharles 3y ago
You can't (currently) search the Wayback Machine, so you can only find these old articles if you know what the URL once was.

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From the article: 'Stories slated to be “deprecated” are archived using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and authors are alerted at least 10 days in adv

by sydbarrett74 3y ago

From the article: 'Stories slated to be “deprecated” are archived using the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine, and authors are alerted at least 10 days in advance, according to the memo.'

LordShredda 3y ago
Offloading trash to an already strained organisation. are they donating any help or is it just taking advantage of charity?
- Espionage724 3y ago
  Lmao there's no winning with you people :p Don't worry, Wayback is capable of telling CNET where to go if they were really concerned. If anything they should be thankful for the newly-generated interest that a major company would use them instead of some randoms cherry-picking sites for arguments.
  - em-bee 3y ago
    yes, this greatly legitimizes the wayback archive.
- renewiltord 3y ago
  I didn't know they were strained. Probably best to block them so they don't spend resources on unimportant things. You can find a few UA strings here https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/bot-detail?bot=archive.org_bot https://udger.com/resources/ua-list/bot-detail?bot=archive.o... Ultimately, it looks like they do respect the `archive.org_bot` string so if you want to help the strained organization, probably best to block it as well. You can also save them some space, it appears, by uploading a file on your website asking them not to retain it and then sending an email to them. See https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/128352 https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/a/128352 For now, I just blocked the bot, but when I have some time maybe I'll ask them to delete the data. Hopefully, with a little community effort we can reduce the strain on them so they can spend their limited resources reasonably.
qingcharles 3y ago
You can't (currently) search the Wayback Machine, so you can only find these old articles if you know what the URL once was.