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I'd love to see these, and other “lost” sites have a public place where the archives can be maintained. I'd also guess Justin Tadlock still has a backup somewhere of his forums.
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It's my understanding that various individuals have done this with a number of other WordPress websites as well.įor WordPress sites, I know WP Tavern's forums still exist offline, and Siobhan tells me she even has a backup of the old b2 forums (the software which WordPress was forked from).
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Similar work can be done with wget, for those that know how to utilize it. SiteSucker finds URLs, logs them, and backs up the source HTML. When Siobhan was writing the History of WordPress book, she was worried that WPCandy could go offline - as it “was becoming particularly degraded” while she was writing - so she personally scraped a backup of the site with a tool called SiteSucker. We should also contact these site owners and requests backups, even if that comes off as an affront. In individual communities, we can manually make the effort to backup sites that we believe are at risk. So, without relying on to do it for us, there are two other methods worth noting. Furthermore, if the website isn't structured in a certain way or is password protected, there's not much they can do.
The problem is, with many smaller websites it may or may not be successful, or snapshots of the website may be dated or not include everything. The team there makes great efforts to document important websites, and automatically attempts the rest. is outstanding, and it is a huge project on a grand scale. The first and obvious method for fighting link rot is, the project that is archiving as much of the web as possible to preserve it for future generations.
Why is this important and what can we do about it? Well, there are a number of resources that can be helpful. I know a friend of mine, Siobhan McKeown, has many times struggled with finding old content for the History of WordPress book she is finishing writing. It appears that data loss is just a thing we have to live with in the modern age. All of us that write or comment or participate in online communities have similar stories. I'd be incredibly sad to see WPCandy disappear forever. I just didn't see it.) And WPCandy, while not gone, seems it could disappear any day - and I wrote something like 130-140 blog posts over there.
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( edit: as Sami notes in the comments, the archive was kept. Theme Hybrid recently deleted all old forum data, though this forum was private and the most excusable of the three in my opinion. WP Tavern's forums are totally gone, though I'm told there is an offline backup, meaning they could be brought back alive. Some of my earliest WordPress related words were typed out on WP Tavern‘s forums, Theme Hybrid‘s (private) forums, or WPCandy.
Three places where I contributed much of my early WordPress content have either lost data, had data corrupted, or disappeared entirely. Sometimes, a website where I contributed content goes away or atrophies– in some form or another - and it makes me sad to see my content go down with the ship. However, there are times where content has a relevance in news matters, or as a significant historical timeline. Sometimes I don't mind too much, because I'm not terribly invested in that content. This is often called “link rot”, when the content in question was also linked to from another source.
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