Post #2073823
2025-11-23 04:53 UTC
Uni Watch - https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/89150
I was doing my daily archive pruning (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/53658) today and discovered I’d linked to Uni Watch (https://www.web-goddess.org/archive/6224) way back in 2006. Uni Watch is/was a niche blog about sports uniforms, and I read on Daring Fireball (https://daringfireball.net/linked/2025/11/01/uni-watch-rip) (and other places (https://www.metafilter.com/210885/Uni-Watch-1999-2025)) recently that it’s shutting down (https://uni-watch.com/2025/10/31/uni-watch-1999-2025/). It sounds like the owners are doing what they can, but it’s just a crappy situation.
I’m with John on this though:
> …I don’t understand why sites don’t leave their archives standing when they close down. It shouldn’t cost much to keep the domain name registered and a static version of the site’s archive online.
It’s another blow for the open Web. More content disappearing; more link rot; and nothing else to take its place but AI generated slop.
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@autiomaa@mastodon.social 2025-11-23 05:17
@web_goddess@aus.social There is often a skill gap, as many people have gotten so used to dynamic content that static web versions are so out of the box thinking. Add in the challenge that people often shutdown their long term projects under a heavy stress, when the short term priorities rule over the longer term thinking. I also hope that more sites would do archive versions, but it's difficult to see how many would have energy for that in a financial crisis situations.