The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects

Wayback Machine's archiving mysteriously plummets

The Internet Archive is suddenly saving fewer webpage archives.

The Wayback Machine's Snapshotting Operations Are Undergoing a 'Breakdown'

It's unclear what's causing the coverage shortage. Apparently “various operational reasons” involving “resource allocation” has spurred the delay in showing some archived material.

The Wayback Machine’s snapshots of news homepages plummet after a “breakdown” in archiving projects

On September 7, Russia carried out a massive drone attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, killing four people and injuring 40. The Associated Press reported that it was the largest aerial attack since the war between the two countries began in 2022. The Kyiv Post, one of Ukraine’s leading English-language news outlets, covered the story, but no public record of its homepage exists in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine for that day. A homepage sn…