D&D General Is WotC archive server no more?

[Azzy]

For those of you interested in making a personal backup, here's a website archiver.

 

[Starglim]

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So is there a way to encourage archive sites? Donations?

archive.org certainly accepts them.

 

[darjr]

That's incredibly disappointing. I still enjoy older editions, such as the Magic Item Compendium design diary about the "Big Six" magic items, and the fact that WotC pulled the plug on them is disappointing. I'm just glad the Wayback Machine archives are there.

Note it might have been inadvertent. But the results still the same.

 

[Parmandur]

Oh,and, there was so much good stuff on there. I read the WotC site religiously in the mid Aughts, there was such a steady stream of quality content.

 

[Weiley31]

I always enjoyed the 3.0/3.5 articles they used to have back in the day. Such great stuff.

 

[Bolares]

Oh no, my dragonshards articles!

 

[Weiley31]

Oh no, my dragonshards articles!

Dragonshards Archive

Dragonshards Archive

web.archive.org

 

[JEB]

I'm not sure which loss is worse, the game content for older editions, or the massive trove of historical material about the game's design (especially the D&D Next stuff).

 

[humble minion]

I think everything from wotc’s ‘gleemax’ phase vanished years ago too. The forums were the biggest loss, the devs and designers were quite active on there, and there’s stuff about the history and evolution of 4th Ed that’s just not findable anywhere else, except for bits and pieces pasted into posts on candlekeep etc, alongside long-dead links.

the next Jon Peterson who tries to write a history of the hobby through 3rd Ed and beyond is going to have a nightmarish time researching.

 

[Weiley31]

And after the Eberron post, here's one for 3.5 D&D articles:

3.5 D&D Archives

3.5 D&D Archives

web.archive.org

As of yesterday, I have clicked on a number of these articles, and they pop up with no probs. May load a little slow, but it's better than nothing.

Original Credit goes to Alzirus for bringing this to my attention via a post on February 22, 2022, in a thread I started. Also some possibility there are exceptions to the rule of every single link working, but so far so good.