WotC archives down for good?

[martixy]

So... I just tried to visit the archive.
It results in a 404.
Usually when it's been down before, it has been timeouts or blank pages or whatnot.

Is this a new thing? Or am I just late to the farewell party?

If that's the case, is there a snapshot somewhere of the index page? (Wayback machine only has a blank page for the index page.)

[Âmesang]

This (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/ask/20061227a) article regarding Hank's energy bow is working for me, but then again I've a list of individual articles that've piqued my interest as opposed to a singular bookmark.

…of course even Wizards' themselves have said the articles can't last forever and could go down at anytime.

[Palanan]

The feat index (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/lists/feats) and PrC index (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/lists/prc&tablefilter=alienist) are working for me, searchable as always, plus the article on the Wild Cohort (http://archive.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/re/20031118a).

Seems to be up for the moment, anyway.

[martixy]

Oh... I'm just being a disgrace to my profession.

I have an extension called "HTTPS Everywhere". And apparently they're imported the wizards site recently.
And the archive doesn't work over HTTPS. Nevermind that even on their main site it is broken.

[ILM]

Personally, I've been saving the articles relevant to me in offline pdf format out of precaution.

[Bullet06320]

Ive printed them all out and put them into binders

[Zweisteine]

A few months ago (when the MtG archives went down), I personally made sure every article from after 2003 was in the Web Archive (https://archive.org). The articles from before then have robots.txt that block the archive bot.

If someone would be so kind as to ask them to change that, I could complete the job, but I'm too lazy to send the message myself.