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Re:If you love a website, back it up by phaedrus on Monday November 02, 2026 @04:00PM (#50343664)
This is timely for me, since a web forum I care about went offline, and I simultaneously discovered the Wayback Machine for whatever reason never crawled most of it. I asked Claude to try to put together a static site of what could be salvaged from various archives and other sources, but as miraculous as what AI can do these days, it can't restore data that is truly gone - so what it was able to salvage is better than nothing but still missing a lot.
Re:If you love a website, back it up by mt_ on Monday November 02, 2026 @05:25PM (#50344824)
I wonder if Tigsource will end up this way
Re:If you love a website, back it up by vlyan on Monday November 02, 2026 @06:51PM (#50345974)
I know that feel, bro. Wayback Machine is very spotty, unfortunately. websites that existed for years often have only a few pages archived.

the worst thing I saw was a website that was dead for over a decade but fully archived get hit with "Sorry. This URL has been excluded from the Wayback Machine" because of robots.txt set by whoever is squatting the domain now. I've managed, by some miracle, find an archive of its content on some random forum. bookmarked it. by the time I'd remembered about the bookmark, that random forum was dead and the link was not archived :(