Ask HN: What Lesser Known Sites Need Preemptive Archiving?

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With the recent demise of what.cd (which I had never heard of until after its closure, only now discovering it was a cultural treasure), I'm reminded of the ephemeral nature of online culture.

Which sites out there would you recommend being archived today in their entirety to prevent them from being lost in time?

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Various URL shorteners. For example http://tinyurl.com/ must have millions of URLs out there. Trouble is some URLs might point to intranets or contain authentication tokens (the "nobody can ever guess this long string" part of a URL).

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Main_Page lists a couple of preemptive "warrior based projects" of services that currently still exist.

Public Slack rooms.

Most teams don't archive their messages, and non-pro teams can only see the last 10k messages.

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