Grieving over websites that were important to me but disappeared without a complete backup (but if you have one, it'll make my week) 

- The old zinelibrary.info which had perhaps a thousand zines, organized by topic, each one listed with a summary, a print-and-staple PDF, & an online reading PDF. I saved a few punk feminist zines from it that completely revolutionized how I think about relationships, my body, and my life plans. There are other online zine libraries now, but not the same one, and none of the same magnitude and navigability. I wish I'd saved more of it.

- The nonbinary.org wiki that was taken down in late 2016. I was just about to personally archive my most recent additions to it-- I had researched and written dozens of very long articles-- when I found it had been taken down. Archive.org didn't catch my newest edits.

- A handful of others' personal sites I admired, where the poetry got archived, but not the art, and the author's ghosted.

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Grieving over websites that were important to me but disappeared without a complete backup (but if you have one, it'll make my week) 

@frameacloud oh no! I remember reading several of your articles on nb.org. you know how I feel about information loss... arrrghhhh. ;_______;

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