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Poster: | gojomo | Date: | Mar 3, 2011 5:28pm |
Forum: | web | Subject: | Re: Updated Wayback Machine in Beta Testing |
We're running them both in parallel for now so the performance can be compared, and so that one or the other is always available if problems are encountered.
All URLs linking to both the classic and new will continue to work; they'll just eventually all show the latest interface.
If you can express in more detail the ways you preferred the old interface, or suggest change to the new interface, that will help us improve the new interface.
- Gordon @ IA
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Poster: | luke d | Date: | Mar 15, 2011 10:25pm |
Forum: | web | Subject: | Re: Updated Wayback Machine in Beta Testing |
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Poster: | gojomo | Date: | Mar 16, 2011 6:48pm |
Forum: | web | Subject: | Re: Updated Wayback Machine in Beta Testing |
Please consult the Beta for the latest material. If there are purposes for which the new Wayback Machine is not as useful as the old, please let us know; we'll be trying to eliminate any reasons to prefer the old before phasing it out.
- Gordon @ IA
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Poster: | luke d | Date: | Mar 16, 2011 11:55pm |
Forum: | web | Subject: | Re: Updated Wayback Machine in Beta Testing |
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Poster: | gojomo | Date: | Mar 28, 2011 2:13pm |
Forum: | web | Subject: | Re: Updated Wayback Machine in Beta Testing |
- Gordon @ IA
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Poster: | luke d | Date: | Mar 28, 2011 3:27pm |
Forum: | web | Subject: | Re: Updated Wayback Machine in Beta Testing |
The rumors are that google is creating their own archive system now and won't be using archive.org or any other systems soon anyway. It's just difficult learning how to do business in this ever-changing environment . :)
Thanks.
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Poster: | gojomo | Date: | Mar 28, 2011 3:48pm |
Forum: | web | Subject: | Re: Updated Wayback Machine in Beta Testing |
For the last 10 years or so, Google's own internal records of domain-names (ownership and DNS-resolution) and website-lifetimes are likely to be as good or better than ours. And, if they were scraping our dates-page in an automated fashion, they'd have to be doing it surreptitiously against our robots.txt -- also unlikely.
- Gordon @ IA
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Poster: | Isashi | Date: | Mar 11, 2011 9:21am |
Forum: | web | Subject: | Re: Updated Wayback Machine in Beta Testing |
This post was modified by Isashi on 2011-03-11 17:21:43
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Poster: | gojomo | Date: | Mar 12, 2011 12:38pm |
Forum: | web | Subject: | Re: Updated Wayback Machine in Beta Testing |
Also, it was based an inherited collection of Perl and C code which we did not have permission to share with the public.
Instead, we created the all open-source 'Wayback' project for improved content playback and more efficient and reliable operation. It's been in use for years on smaller collections, and at other institutions, and should now be better in almost all situations.
There are still limitations, especially with regard to rich media and highly interactive web content, but now all fixes can be devised and shared among a larger community of users.
If you can list any specific areas where the new does not meet your needs as well as the classic, we'll work to close the gap before the classic is completely retired.
- Gordon @ IA
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Poster: | chris_h | Date: | Aug 4, 2011 10:33am |
Forum: | web | Subject: | Re: Updated Wayback Machine in Beta Testing |
The perl||C scripts were reliable, your new code is not.
If you had issues with copyright/propriety with the old ones, I will re-write them and license them under a BSD/MIT license so that you can use/develop with them in a more open fashion.
Reading the feedback, and in conversations with others, it has become clear that the new UI IA has chosen is NOT popular. Nor do I (or others) find it reliable. If your hardware tends to become overloaded using the old UI, please consider using a "round-robin" approach. This simply requires creating mirrors that can be utilized on a "most available" basis. We have a great many resources available here, and have been "connected" since 1975. We could most probably provide a mirror gratis.
Please do not forget where the Wayback Machine came from -- it is what made it great. It appears that it's current charted course will eliminate most, if not all of that.
Please note that none of the preceding was intended to be insulting, or defamatory in any way. It was simply an observation, accompanied by suggestion(s).
Thank you for all your time and consideration in this matter.
--Chris