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Have they actually lost the data these people contributed? Or just the metadata which links it to their account - such that the data is still accessible if you

Have they actually lost the data these people contributed? Or just the metadata which links it to their account - such that the data is still accessible if you link to it directly (not via the uploader’s user profile)? I think the answer is the second not the first, but this blog post isn’t very clear as to what is going on. Losing archived data - that would be more serious. Losing metadata linking it to the uploader - far from ideal but not as bad.

msephton 2y ago
It was as clear as I could make it with the information available. The answer is somewhere between your two hypotheses. Lots of data is no longer accessible, and links are broken. Uploads are safe but some other archived data is gone. There's more to an internet archive profile than uploads, so I'd say it's somewhat serious of a situation. We don't really know the true extent of the problem but we can easily see what's missing (see the lists in the blog posts)