Archive.is to the rescue.

Missing spin-offs by EileenAlphabet on 2016-01-15 14:49:00 UTC Reply

I wanted to check out the single mission in the A Series of Unfortunate Events continua (Agents Havoc and Tink) and the link to the wayback machine seems to be non-functioning.

I poked around a bit and the Author had another pair, Blue and Hayward, who did two missions in Harry Potter and VC Andrews (Shooting Stars?) and an interlude. The link to the Potter mission is also non-functioning and I can't even find links to the other two on the wiki. The closest I can get is this site: http://web.archive.org/web/20070629041232/http://www.astai.net/fandom/ppc.htm

Does anyone have them copied down and archived somewhere? Or should the links just be marked a broken and the stories as lost?

Archive.is to the rescue. by Neshomeh on 2016-01-15 15:12:00 UTC Reply

Partly, anyway. They've only got the main page, first and fourth stories, and the charge list, but that's better than nothing.

Speaking of missing stories, anyone with a bit of free time could do us all a huge favor by backing up PPC sites on the above webpage capture service, especially if those sites are on Webs. Webs sites have been dropping like flies, and it's extremely irritating. So, if you're browsing a PPC site, journal, whathaveyou, please take a moment to pop open this page and drop its root URL in the red bar. Thanks!

~Neshomeh, your friendly neighborhood archivist.

Thank you! And a few questions. by EileenAlphabet on 2016-01-15 18:17:00 UTC Reply

Having two of the stories saved is much better than nothing. Should I just change the links on the wiki page or add the ones from archive.is?

And when you say root URL, would that be fx. https://rc170.wordpress.com/ for my page? No need to add the individual mission pages?

Actually, it looks like your stuff is already there. by Neshomeh on 2016-01-15 18:46:00 UTC Reply

https://archive.is/rc170.wordpress.com

Re: Actually, it looks like your stuff is already there. by EileenAlphabet on 2016-01-15 20:28:00 UTC Reply

Oh, that's nice. I was just using it as an example of a root URL, but it's great to know that if Wordpress goes bell-up tomorrow and my harddrive dies, I am saved for posterity. ;)

I'll make sure to add pages when I read new spin-offs.

I already fixed the links. by Neshomeh on 2016-01-15 18:41:00 UTC Reply

For archiving sites, I think you actually have to add an asterisk to the end of the URL to indicate that all subpages should be included, but I don't quite remember. Try it out with the URL as is, then look it up and see what's there. If it didn't work, do it again with the asterisk.

~Neshomeh