
Formed in 2009, the Archive Team (not to be confused with the archive.org Archive-It Team) is a rogue archivist collective dedicated to saving copies of rapidly dying or deleted websites for the sake of history and digital heritage. The group is 100% composed of volunteers and interested parties, and has expanded into a large amount of related projects for saving online and digital history.
History is littered with hundreds of conflicts over the future of a community, group, location or business that were "resolved" when one of the parties stepped ahead and destroyed what was there. With the original point of contention destroyed, the debates would fall to the wayside. Archive Team believes that by duplicated condemned data, the conversation and debate can continue, as well as the richness and insight gained by keeping the materials. Our projects have ranged in size from a single volunteer downloading the data to a small-but-critical site, to over 100 volunteers stepping forward to acquire terabytes of user-created data to save for future generations.
The main site for Archive Team is at archiveteam.org and contains up to the date information on various projects, manifestos, plans and walkthroughs.
This collection contains the output of many Archive Team projects, both ongoing and completed. Thanks to the generous providing of disk space by the Internet Archive, multi-terabyte datasets can be made available, as well as in use by the Wayback Machine, providing a path back to lost websites and work.
Our collection has grown to the point of having sub-collections for the type of data we acquire. If you are seeking to browse the contents of these collections, the Wayback Machine is the best first stop. Otherwise, you are free to dig into the stacks to see what you may find.
The Archive Team Panic Downloads are full pulldowns of currently extant websites, meant to serve as emergency backups for needed sites that are in danger of closing, or which will be missed dearly if suddenly lost due to hard drive crashes or server failures.
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👋 We’re excited to release two improvements designed to streamline file navigation and editing in the web UI.
1. Seamless Editing from Search Results
When searching for a file on GitHub, results link to a specific commit. If you try to edit the file, you’ll see a disabled pencil icon with a tooltip that says “You must be on a branch to make or propose changes to this file.” This can be confusing for new users unfamiliar with branches, and it’s not clear how to switch to a branch to enable editing, which is an extremely common pain point for new open source contributors.
To address this, if the user is on the latest commit of the file on the default branch (aka HEAD commit), we’re adding an option in the dropdown next to the pencil icon that allows users to quickly edit a file on the default branch. This improvement reduces friction and makes the experience of editing files smoother, especially for new users.
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2. Easy Navigation to Default Branch
Previously, there was not a smooth UX for navigating back to the default branch from code or file view, an issue which came directly from the Refined GitHub repo. Now, we’ve added a “View on default branch” button to the left of the branch picker in the file tree to improve this workflow.
How to test:
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