We are a bit notorious for being obsessive about our own records. *waves at the hundreds of pages of back-up records, pats local LJ archive back-up with fondness* Dreamwidth's Export Journal seems a bit creaky, but at least it exists! (And regrettably, while LJarchive has apparently worked for DW archiving in the past, all of LJarchive's documentation... is on Livejournal, where due to code rot, all the comments are now no longer viewable.)
And yeah, so many websites pop up and disappear very quickly! There was a plural skeptics site we were on briefly, and the place disappeared. Even though we weren't on it for long, it's a shame that info was lost; I recall some really neat conversations happening there. (And I know tulpa.io was huge and lost EVERYTHING a good while back. I ended up getting permission to rehost at least one thing from there!)
The Wayback Machine is actually pretty good for tumblr, the text anyway! I relied on it for my Gallifreyan Tradition Society write-up, to work around the mass-locking and mass-deleting. It does require you know the usernames of the correct time period, though; if you change your handle from the_broken_tower to broken_towers to faulty_towers, you gotta make sure to search through the Wayback Machine with all those domains. (But many sites have this issue; Livejournal's URL formatting changed quite a lot over the years, and so searching for old LJ stuff on the Wayback Machine involves a lot of "okay, I searched the_broken_tower.livejournal.com and community.livejournal.com/the_broken_tower, now what was it before 2005, livejournal.com/users/the_broken_tower...?" It's kinda dreadful to realize that because we were there on LJ for long enough, we're able to search through better just because we remember the old URL switches.)
Video, audio, and images on the Wayback Machine are always a crapshoot, though, even at the best of times.
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Date: 2022-08-15 09:34 pm (UTC)And yeah, so many websites pop up and disappear very quickly! There was a plural skeptics site we were on briefly, and the place disappeared. Even though we weren't on it for long, it's a shame that info was lost; I recall some really neat conversations happening there. (And I know tulpa.io was huge and lost EVERYTHING a good while back. I ended up getting permission to rehost at least one thing from there!)
The Wayback Machine is actually pretty good for tumblr, the text anyway! I relied on it for my Gallifreyan Tradition Society write-up, to work around the mass-locking and mass-deleting. It does require you know the usernames of the correct time period, though; if you change your handle from the_broken_tower to broken_towers to faulty_towers, you gotta make sure to search through the Wayback Machine with all those domains. (But many sites have this issue; Livejournal's URL formatting changed quite a lot over the years, and so searching for old LJ stuff on the Wayback Machine involves a lot of "okay, I searched the_broken_tower.livejournal.com and community.livejournal.com/the_broken_tower, now what was it before 2005, livejournal.com/users/the_broken_tower...?" It's kinda dreadful to realize that because we were there on LJ for long enough, we're able to search through better just because we remember the old URL switches.)
Video, audio, and images on the Wayback Machine are always a crapshoot, though, even at the best of times.