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Originally Posted by theducks
Yahoo groups is dead (when they shut down the group formed by former xyz employees had no home)
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Yes, looks like it started in 2001 and was killed off late 2019 + fully-disabled in early-2020. About 2.1 billion posts saved:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.ph...=Yahoo!_Groups
Ars Technica wrote an article about it too,
"Verizon reportedly blocks archivists from Yahoo Groups days before deletion".
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Originally Posted by theducks
Google groups is still alive, the neighborhood association (invite only) is still posting
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Archive Team has all the details of each project on their site.
They also have this thing called the "Deathwatch", which are sites that are on shaky ground, and are most likely going to be killed/deleted soon.
Anything Yahoo has been on death's door for a while.
For example, Flickr in 2019 decided to delete all images beyond 1000 per account:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Flickr
Similar situation with Tumblr 2 years ago
(the great "porn" purge).
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Raptr was one I personally got hit with. ~2007ish, Raptr was a gaming site used to track how many hours you played per game (long before it became now-common functionality).
They shifted their name into Plays.tv, trying to become a game streaming/video/photo site, but closed their doors permanently in 2019:
https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Plays.tv
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In 2018, Nintendo killed off their "Miiverse" social media site, ~8 million users with hundreds of millions of posts/screenshots:
Ars Technica, "Miiverse archive recovers 17TB of social mirth after Nintendo’s shutdown"
As you can imagine, most of the users were probably children/teens, creating accounts, losing access to passwords, etc. (Do you remember all the usernames and sites you used when you were a kid? But no, lock it up for 100+ years.)
Plenty of examples. Luckily, there are people out there backing this stuff up in spite of copyright.
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Originally Posted by ApK
It's certainly quite possible to have all the benefit of automatically assigned copyright, which is as it is and should be, and still reform the law to better account for modern media, anonymous publication, orphaned work, enforcement, etc.
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Automatic assignment is one of the worst things to ever happen in copyright, and is
the root cause for many of the above-mentioned issues.