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Maybe It Should Be Illegal To Instantly Delete A Website's Archives - Aftermath (aftermath.site)

submitted 2 months ago by alex@jlai.lu to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 38 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Why is everyone so mad about this? I mean, it's a salty article, but yeah, it kinda sucks when publications don't give notice before closing down. I think providing the public, including previous contributors, time to archive content is a good practice.

[–] kevindqc@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's a good practice, sure. But as per the headline, the author wants to make it a law. That's why people are not having it.

[–] antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

, it’s a salty article

Actually the author himself is somewhat harmed by this situation. I would be salty too. When I wish to write my CV, I can say: my text have been published at X and Y. Especially nice if it's an important and well known publication. Now a part of his CV is literally erased, he can't access his own texts anymore (not even on Internet Archive). That's... utterly ridiculous. It's a common practice to send the author a copy (or multiple) of the text he has published, he has every right to own a copy of them. Now the copy that was intended to be available to everyone is not available even to him. Something of the sort really has happened to me too when a website I published an article on a site underwent a redesign and now the text just isn't available anymore. Admittedly it's still on IA, but it's an awkward situation.

[–] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 months ago

Yeah, right? I mean, imagine if YouTube when down and just deleted all the videos. People would be up and arms demanding legislative action. There would be endless lawsuits.

As a creative, you rely on platforms to not obliterate your stuff. At least not immediately. This guy has a horse in the race of this site.

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