Posted 9 months ago
keramikos
(35 items)
Everybody has their own ideas about what Collectors Weekly Show & Tell is, or should be, and that's fine.
However, users who have much content here might want to concern themselves with having safe copies should the site go down permanently.
Some might think "Oh, the Wayback Machine has me covered." Indeed, archive.org is a tremendous resource; however, it doesn't necessarily have all of your stuff by default.
I did a test by looking up one of my posts:
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/324898-curiouser-and-curiouser-said-alice
Lo and behold, there was no Wayback Machine copy of it.
Fortunately, I was able to make one:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250610160956/https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/324898-curiouser-and-curiouser-said-alice
However, what if archive.org goes down? That's happened, and it wasn't all that long ago (October 2024). Some rotten little pishers attacked it, and it was down for an extended period.
You can also create an archive copy using archive.is or archive.ph. I'll let y'all explore archive.is/archive.ph by yourselves.
There are other archival tools out there, but they're not necessarily free, and while archive.org and archive.is/archive.ph are free, they accept donations. };-)
IMAGE CREDITS:
The original Wayback Machine with Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Waybackmachine3.png
All other images are screenshots made by me of my use of archive.org to create an archive of one of my posts.
Great information
Thank you kera, glad you can help with this, would give you a thumbs up emoji if they allowed it! Good luck to you, Dave & others starting a new forum. Think my post about suggestions has run its course so will take it down now, you keep the dialogue going
cute cartoon
Newfld:
"Thank you kera, glad you can help with this, would give you a thumbs up emoji if they allowed it! Good luck to you, Dave & others starting a new forum. Think my post about suggestions has run its course so will take it down now, you keep the dialogue going"
I don't think that you need to take your suggestion post down. I don't think there is any single 'right' answer here.
FYI, in terms of archives, I think I might recommend archive.is instead of archive.org.
I've already created a few, some of my own stuff, and some of posts belonging to others in which I participated.
One was of a badged VSM, and to me it was a great example of cooperation.
The OP wanted to know more about the machine, and I tried to help, stumbling and fumbling quite a bit initially.
Eventually, I think all of the mysteries about that VSM were solved, but it took a village. That post also produced as a byproduct a translation of a relatively rare operators manual. :-)