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If there actuallt exists a community, they can scare up somebody to host some infrastructure the community depends on. Otherwise the community is dead, and it’s archive.org you should be thanking.


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hombre_fatal10/10/2024

They can, but they didn't 99% of the time.

And archive.org is not a replacement for a website, not even a Fandom wiki. It's horrible to use and you're lucky if it indexes a quarter of what you want, especially on a property as big as a wiki. And it's read-only.

On Fandom I can still log in and make improvements.

layer810/10/2024

Archive.org is awfully slow, and more importantly, the archived pages are not indexed by Google, hence aren’t discoverable.