Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 15/05/2026ABC News has now taken all FiveThirtyEight articles completely offline. They now redirect to abcnews dot com.politics. A needless erasure of thousands of pages of knowledge. 291181265
(((John))) is mad on the Internet @tehoriman.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Do any of the former employees have backups of the data? 140
jtunes6.bsky.social @jtunes6.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Is this another "obeying in advance to fascism" thing? 031
Nathaniel Rakich @baseballot.bsky.social · 17/05/2026@palewi.re has created an index of all the FiveThirtyEight articles that are preserved on the Internet Archive. Very useful: fivethirtyeightindex.comfivethirtyeightindex.comfivethirtyeightindex.comAn index of every fivethirtyeight.com article preserved by the Internet Archive. 211624
Gary Smith @garysmith.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I wonder how many other essays, blog posts and news articles are on the web that used analysis from FiveThirtyEight as a primary source; now all referencing dead links, unverifiable, rendered garbage in one fell swoop. 0243
fuckface "squeaky" from:me @skeet.best · 15/05/2026bummer, I'll never forget their article about how the Dean Scream and Dukakis Tank were most likely coincidences with the candidates' support crumbling for other reasons 020
Jaxster37 @jaxster37.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Completely ridiculous of them and shows an extreme degree of pettiness and vindictiveness towards the people who contributed so much of their analytical analysis to the political discourse over the past two decades. 010
Adam Lunoe @alunoe.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Hopefully the author of those articles saves their own work locally, companies you sell publication rights of your work are not obligated to maintain access to the stuff they buy rights to, though. Unless stipulated in the contract, like anything else. 010
Geoff Buchan @rotovalue.com · 15/05/2026That's terrible. There was a lot of good stuff there. I hope the Internet Archive still has it, but this will surely cause lots of link rot. 030
Vernacular Ham @vernacularham.bsky.social · 15/05/2026The Internet archive becomes ever more important. The rampant destruction for no reason of literal history. The cost of hosting these things is a drop in the bucket. Especially when traffic is likely low. 11737
ellegon.bsky.social @ellegon.bsky.social · 15/05/2026I still have my fivey fox tshirt and hoodie. They can't erase the fox! 0100
Gentry @ghostwithashell.bsky.social · 16/05/2026This stupidity is why we need the internet archive. 000
Vince Lamb @vincelamb.bsky.social · 16/05/2026ABC seems to have set all the FiveThirtyEight videos on YouTube to private. I am also unable to locate the channel when I search. 020
wiscoism @wiscoism.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Sorry, Nathaniel. I hope you were able to keep your clips and that an archive exists somewhere. 000
Alice Lastname @rbdfwkedkegfkt.bsky.social · 16/05/2026Not really. All the LLMs have ingested all that stuff already anyway. 000
Dr. Philip J. Howe @drphilipjhowe.bsky.social · 15/05/2026@natesilver538bot.bsky.social This is bull. Will there be another way to access them? 120
thirtyboats.bsky.social @thirtyboats.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Any chance Nate Silver caused them to do that? I know there was an issue when he left because it turned out that ABC only “rented” his model and did not own it. 040
an actual potato @an-actual-potato.bsky.social · 15/05/2026Ah that sucks. ‘The End of A Republican Party’ was a favorite piece mine to revisit. It only grew more relevant by the year. 1290
Pusheen The Millennial @millennialpusheen.bsky.social · 15/05/2026this is really sad, but i'm really really feeling kinda smug about buying DVDs and BluRays from 2014-2024 when everyone was making fun of me in my life 21110
