Without being exploited: What archivists should learn from the XeNTaX forums aftermath
XeNTaX forums and wiki have shut down and archival attempts have been suppressed. But for good reason!
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Data Log 2023-10-06 Weekly News
Discord CDN - FIFA delisting - Nintendo online shutdowns - Typepad - Goodboy Galaxy - Matrix
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Data Log 2023-09-30 Intro to Phone Preservation
What did you have before smartphones? Madpro and Donut talk about old phones, retro phones and retrofuturistic phones.
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Data Log 2023-09-17 Unity Platform Runtime Fee Controversy
The Unity Engine is a popular 3D engine for making games and other interactive media. In this episode of Data Log glmdgrielson and madpro talk about how game designers and gamers are upset with the Unity platform's new payment scheme.
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Data Log 2023-01-26 What is Archiving?
The first ever episode of Data Log: The Archiver's Favorite Podcast. Learn about what archiving is and how to join the archiving community!
Twitter to Begin Purging Inactive Accounts
Twitter to start purging inactive accounts. If you want to save some accounts, snscrape is a must...
Twitter in Trouble? Why you should Archive your Tweets
Now is a good time as ever, that we talked about what options you have in archiving or preserving your Twitter content.
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Action Script 3 now supported in the Ruffle Emulator
ActionScript 3 games are finally playable in Ruffle, the early ones anyway. Read on for demos..
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Remembering YouTube’s Lost Unlisted Videos
On this day, 12 years ago, YouTube introduced unlisted videos as a compromise between a public and a private video. Perfect for sharing your history project with friends, video outtakes, or just about anything you didn't want cluttering your channel.
Pulling Rank: The Legacy of Alexa Internet
Alexa is shutting down and this is an unfortunate loss for the web archiving community, for reasons that are not obvious...