Dangers to history
Dangers to history
Posted Aug 27, 2025 16:13 UTC (Wed) by pabs (subscriber, #43278)Parent article: The need to reliably preserve our community history
Significant dangers to digital history are deletionism, upgrades, migrations, shrinking communities, short memories and expiring browser histories. All of these mean resources can't be easily found on archive sites using their previous URLs. If folks notice signs of these, consider preventing those things at least until the resources can be archived, and getting the word out about the changes through LWN and other news sources.
