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I have noticed this at some of the sites I used to write for. Hence, as soon as I put a new piece up, I archive it at archive.is, and include that reference in my site's list of my work. Periodically, I should go there and check each one, but there's a lot of material.

I did not know that this was a possible motivation as to why my more 'historic' work is disappearing, though.

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Sites also just reorganize, change CMSs, simply go out of business (which can happen to archive.is as well). I save a lot of my own stuff but it's a bit hit or miss and I expect a lot of the material we lean on The Wayback Machine to save is probably pretty hard to actually discover.

True about archive.is being probably more at risk than WayBack Machine. I just don't know when I'll ever get the 2-3 days necessary to additionally back the posts up at WM, because each save is very slow.

What’s the difference between archive.is and Internet Archive Wayback Machine?

It handles some of the more complex formatting better, and succeeds better in simplifying complex CSS and templates. Also better latency, usually.

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