Photobucket is back?!
Posted: 2022-Nov-22, 22:45
Combatsim will shut down very soon.
I contacted the Internet Archive earlier this year, and they have backed up a considerable amount of threads from the site.
However … they had problems with the image hosters. We all know that. For example, their copy of the TAW Skins thread (taken April 4th 2022) has no images.
But now I happened to open the original thread … and the images are back. They are now served as WEBP instead of JPG, but who cares.
Needless to say, I went to the Wayback Machine and requested the site being archived again. But that’s denied – community.combatsim.com is now blocked; presumably because they assumed that everything had been backed up anyway.
So … uuugh. Does anyone have a list of missing Photobucket images from our archived CSim threads? Do threads from our forums archive come to mind? Because then I’d quickly go and back them up …
I contacted the Internet Archive earlier this year, and they have backed up a considerable amount of threads from the site.
However … they had problems with the image hosters. We all know that. For example, their copy of the TAW Skins thread (taken April 4th 2022) has no images.
But now I happened to open the original thread … and the images are back. They are now served as WEBP instead of JPG, but who cares.
Needless to say, I went to the Wayback Machine and requested the site being archived again. But that’s denied – community.combatsim.com is now blocked; presumably because they assumed that everything had been backed up anyway.
So … uuugh. Does anyone have a list of missing Photobucket images from our archived CSim threads? Do threads from our forums archive come to mind? Because then I’d quickly go and back them up …