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PSA: Internet Archive "glitch" deletes years of user data and accounts

Recently at Internet Archive a “glitch” (their choice of word) deleted a great many accounts, including my account that had been at https://archive.org/detai...

Otherwise, all profile metadata, favourites, lists, reviews, posts, collections, web archives, and the original username are not being relinked. And because they’re not really talking about it, it’s quite difficult to find any concrete information as to the extent or cause of the data loss. This is such a disappointing stance to take with users who are simply trying to recover their data as a result of loss caused by Internet Archive itself.

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