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My old anime forum archive just vanished overnight
The site host pulled the plug without warning last Tuesday. Lost a decade of old episode discussion threads. Anyone know a good place to find archived posts from the early 2010s?
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ellis.victor2mo ago
Man, that's the digital equivalent of your house burning down with all your photo albums inside. Classic move from a host who probably sees it as just clearing out old server space. You might try the Wayback Machine, but good luck finding specific threads in that mess. It's like trying to find a single DVD in a landfill.
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luna_green2mo ago
@ellis.victor is totally right, it's exactly like that. You see this everywhere now, where things we thought were solid just vanish because it's easier for a company to delete than to save. My old blog from college is just gone, poof, because some service shut down. It makes you wonder what else we're all just trusting to sit there forever, you know? Feels like we're building a shared memory on a foundation of sand sometimes.
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