I enjoyed FiveThirtyEight back in the day, but does anyone actually go back and look at the old posts? They were very much of the moment. I'd imagine the vast vast majority of the traffic to them is robots.
I can see why they wouldn't be a priority to keep up. For archival purposes, I'd think everything is still in the internet archive?
Nate seems to try to justify this a touch, saying he personally was looking for a specific article. Kind of a special case there…
> For archival purposes, I'd think everything is still in the internet archive?
I encourage anyone who thinks this is true to actually look for things in the internet archive and report back success. If you have the original exact URL you might be able to easily find something in the wayback machine, but if you have only a vague inclination that something existed and a general timeframe, it's a needle in a haystack. The wayback machine is, also extremely slow to retrieve data.