The PCKF Archive
Posted: Mon Dec 05, 2011 16:24
EDIT: Finally, the PCKF Archive has opened! Click here:
http://archive.shikadi.net/pckf/
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Hello, long time no see...
As you have probably noticed, the old PCKF (when it was still at ezBoard) is not available in the Wayback Archive anymore. This is because ezBoard did actually disallow the Wayback Archive to archive their site all the time. However, such blocks did originally not affect subdomains, and since basically every forum at ezBoard used a subdomain (e.g. p128.ezboard.com), the PCKF was still archived.
However, this has changed with the new version of the Wayback Archive. Now blocks also go for any subdomain of a blocked site, meaning that countless pages in the Wayback Archive have become unavailable from one day to another, including the whole ezBoard incarnation of the PCKF with its thousands of topics.
The good news is that not everything lost - before the old Archive was taken down, I had saved hundreds of topics which collect dust on my hard drive since then. There are a lot of minor/random topics among those, but I'm sure that at least some of them are significant for the community's history and/or entertaining.
Malvineous already offered me webspace to put them online (of course they have yet to be sorted, currently it's just a mess). But before I do so, I'd like to know if there have been any other effortss of archiving by you. All I know are Xtraverse's little archive and Snortimer's InsideTheWeb archive, are there any more?
Of course, it would be much better if ezBoard (or yuku as their site is called now) simply lifted the block (in case the Archive hasn't already deleted everything for good). As they tolerated the archiving of millions of pages for years (which was especially useful after the attack on ezBoard in 2005), maybe they would do so? For contacting them, you have to make use of a ticket system. Has anybody an account there? If yes, it would be nice if someone could ask them about this. One would also have to give reasons, like how ezBoard was the place where many people made their first experiences with Internet communities, that it takes an important part in the history of web communites that should be archived, and of course how useful the Wayback Archive has been for ezBoard users since the great loss in May 2005. However, the yuku domain is also not archived, though it's "only" due to robots.txt rather than an actual block.
http://archive.shikadi.net/pckf/
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Hello, long time no see...
As you have probably noticed, the old PCKF (when it was still at ezBoard) is not available in the Wayback Archive anymore. This is because ezBoard did actually disallow the Wayback Archive to archive their site all the time. However, such blocks did originally not affect subdomains, and since basically every forum at ezBoard used a subdomain (e.g. p128.ezboard.com), the PCKF was still archived.
However, this has changed with the new version of the Wayback Archive. Now blocks also go for any subdomain of a blocked site, meaning that countless pages in the Wayback Archive have become unavailable from one day to another, including the whole ezBoard incarnation of the PCKF with its thousands of topics.
The good news is that not everything lost - before the old Archive was taken down, I had saved hundreds of topics which collect dust on my hard drive since then. There are a lot of minor/random topics among those, but I'm sure that at least some of them are significant for the community's history and/or entertaining.
Malvineous already offered me webspace to put them online (of course they have yet to be sorted, currently it's just a mess). But before I do so, I'd like to know if there have been any other effortss of archiving by you. All I know are Xtraverse's little archive and Snortimer's InsideTheWeb archive, are there any more?
Of course, it would be much better if ezBoard (or yuku as their site is called now) simply lifted the block (in case the Archive hasn't already deleted everything for good). As they tolerated the archiving of millions of pages for years (which was especially useful after the attack on ezBoard in 2005), maybe they would do so? For contacting them, you have to make use of a ticket system. Has anybody an account there? If yes, it would be nice if someone could ask them about this. One would also have to give reasons, like how ezBoard was the place where many people made their first experiences with Internet communities, that it takes an important part in the history of web communites that should be archived, and of course how useful the Wayback Archive has been for ezBoard users since the great loss in May 2005. However, the yuku domain is also not archived, though it's "only" due to robots.txt rather than an actual block.