✳flâneur — a map of the web's best reading

A Million Ways to Die on the Web - Archiveteam

wiki.archiveteam.org · 909 words · saved by 1 readers

This is a list of common ways websites shut down and user content gets permanently deleted. If you know of a website exhibiting any of these symptoms, please tell us on IRC. Examples: GeoCities, Swipnet, Verizon Personal Web Space, My Opera, Quizilla Situation: Company A creates a service or buys out Company B and integrates them with their website. Years and years go by, with updates to the service slowing to a complete stop as employees quit or are reassigned. One day, Company A decides managing it is too expensive and not worth the effort, so they shut it down. Examples: Friendster, iWiW, YTMND Situation: Company A runs a service, maybe with a limited market (country, age group etc.) One day multinational Company B appears, covering Company A's services, and soon more and more users think "why not use that service if so many others do?", and a bit later "why use any other service, if everyone uses that?" Unless company A is lucky enough or finds a way to keep users, it can soon end

A Million Ways to Die on the Web - Archiveteam A Million Ways to Die on the Web From Archiveteam Jump to navigation Jump to search This is a list of common ways websites shut down and user content gets permanently deleted. If you know of a website exhibiting any of these symptoms, please tell us on IRC . Contents 1 Disclaimer(s) 2 Abandoned 3 Pushed out by a competitor 4 Bleeding money 5 teh futurez!1! 6 Acquired/Acqui-hired 7 Yahoo-ed 8 Personal Issues 9 Censorship 10 Continuous deletion 11 Associated data 12 See also Disclaimer(s) This list is very much not complete nor comprehensive. The be

Explore this link on the map →

saved by

related reading