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* '''Edmodo''' - Back in grade school, I remember all my classes used this site. It was like the Facebook but for school. We would have class discussions, assignments submissions, etc. Then one day, they suffered a huge data breach and within a couple months from that date, they closed everyone's accounts. All those memories are now gone. | * '''Edmodo''' - Back in grade school, I remember all my classes used this site. It was like the Facebook but for school. We would have class discussions, assignments submissions, etc. Then one day, they suffered a huge data breach and within a couple months from that date, they closed everyone's accounts. All those memories are now gone. | ||
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* '''Groupme, Discord''' hard to archive - Call me old school but I prefer seeing things on websites. I hate how information and entire communities are hosted off in walled off gardens in which you have to create an account to view the info. Additionally, these sites make backup and archive nearly impossible. Good luck backing up years of messages on Discord. One day these companies might deactivate your account, you might banned for any reason, and all that data is just gone. At least when communication takes place on desktop-first websites like Gmail and Reddit, there's tons of tools and extensions available that will allow you to archive it such as [ | * '''Groupme, Discord''' hard to archive - Call me old school but I prefer seeing things on websites. I hate how information and entire communities are hosted off in walled off gardens in which you have to create an account to view the info. Additionally, these sites make backup and archive nearly impossible. Good luck backing up years of messages on Discord. One day these companies might deactivate your account, you might banned for any reason, and all that data is just gone. At least when communication takes place on desktop-first websites like Gmail and Reddit, there's tons of tools and extensions available that will allow you to archive it such as [https://archive.org archive.org], extensions, and these sites also have their own means of exporting data like [https://takeout.google.com/?pli=1 Google Takeout]. | ||
And did I mention this whole wiki is easily archiveable? Well, in fact here you go: [[Special:AllPages]] | And did I mention this whole wiki is easily archiveable? Well, in fact here you go: [[Special:AllPages]] | ||