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Re: Internet Archive Switzerland

#14

Ah, good, they are also mirroring the page load speed of the internet archive

Typical for something made in St. Gallen. A sensible web developer from Zurich interested in the topic would have created this website in just a single HTML and an optional CSS file.

Re: Internet Archive Switzerland

#16
post #7

That website is really struggling. Very tempting to go to a mirror on archive.org to view it :) This seems very distinct from Internet Archive in the US, I wonder how separate it is. Internet Archive Canada (I worked there in 2024) operated like it was a subsidiary, even though I think it was technically an independent organization with some shared directors. Same Slack, same archive.org email domain, etc. IA.ch has…

They use Slack? I am kind of surprised. But I am sure on the plus side, that would also mean having to worry about one less uptime.

Re: Internet Archive Switzerland

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post #7

That website is really struggling. Very tempting to go to a mirror on archive.org to view it :) This seems very distinct from Internet Archive in the US, I wonder how separate it is. Internet Archive Canada (I worked there in 2024) operated like it was a subsidiary, even though I think it was technically an independent organization with some shared directors. Same Slack, same archive.org email domain, etc. IA.ch has…

They use Slack? I am kind of surprised. But I am sure on the plus side, that would also mean having to worry about one less uptime.

Slack, Zoom and Google Apps (but not for email) - otherwise basically everything was internally ran.

The Slack has (had?) hundreds of guest accounts due to volunteers and allied organizations. It’s an interesting (and cool) institution!

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