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Polybius

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2. I hate when companies do that

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Wed May 20, 2026, 05:26 AM

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There was an article on 538 that I liked to go back to from time to time, from the week before the 2016 election. Now it's gone, unless someone archived it.

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'So Much Hard Work Erased': Nate Silver Vents Disney Told Him to 'Get Lost' Before Deleting FiveThirtyEight's Archive [View all] BumRushDaShow Wednesday OP

Nothing completely disappears. BidenRocks Wednesday #1

I hate when companies do that Polybius Wednesday #2

Wayback Machine might have snaphots BumRushDaShow Wednesday #3

Maybe he ought to have been archiving it himself... if it actually meant so much to him. QueerDuck Wednesday #4

He wanted to make some money on it, that is the "snub" he is hurting over... displacedvermoter Wednesday #5

The data likely didn't belong to him fujiyamasan Wednesday #6

Not for personal use... reACTIONary Wednesday #12

Would anyone actually expect Disney to not do this? fujiyamasan Wednesday #7

Before he went ABC, his 538 blog run was running on the NYT starting in 2010 BumRushDaShow Wednesday #8

I'm much more concerned about what might happen to Colbert's archived shows and YouTube channel. highplainsdem Wednesday #9

Why didn't Silver back it all up? Martin68 Wednesday #10

538 turned out to be GIGO Deminpenn Wednesday #11