Didot ago

Some of the early chan-threads with material backed up to archive.is are already dead

Could you link to one of them? I'd really like to see this for myself. I know there's a 'report abuse' button on archive.is but so far haven't seen first-hand deleted pages there.

The only pages that I've seen someone mention were missing are some extra pages from the jimmycomet Instagram profile page that it's believed were 'lost' during a merge of duplicate content (since everyone was hitting the archive button every few minutes for the same page). However the archived pages for the images themselves seem to still be live (at least all the 21 pages I know of).

It's an excellent reminder to always save pages though. The downside is that without a third-party archive site copy people can always claim someone tampered with the content (I've experienced this myself where a screenshot wasn't enough, but thankfully someone had made an archived copy).

lurch91 ago

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kptihwd ago

just to be clear, archive.is is a separate entity to Internet Archive's wayback machine.

I hold Internet Archive to be more accountable than archive.is, which has shady ownership.

GrandpaPepe ago

What do you mean archive.is is disappearing?

DoctorSpooge ago

They are not permanent archives (so why they're called archives I'll never know) and they expire.

Didot ago

and they expire.

There's nowhere on the site this is stated and the FAQ states archived content will be attempted to be stored 'virtually forever' (obviously dependent on the site's financing). There is still the risk of takedowns when abuse is reported or (presumably) from outside pressure behind the scenes but we wouldn't be privy to the latter.

DoctorSpooge ago

I stand corrected. For the record .

Konran ago

Yeah - me too. After the Great Reddit Edit I ws thinking anything might be happening online nowadays.