We need to change the culture of the tech industry to view users' data as belonging to the users. Until then, consider donating to the Internet Archive https://archive.org/donate/
Here's a random example: www.geocities.com/scythemantis
This means there's no limit on the size of gifs created, nor any limit on their length. Additionally, a user can make as many gifs as they like. I think one can imagine where this is going.
Since it's inception, people have made tens of thousands of gifs, and now I have hundreds of gigabytes of gifs I have to host. Recently, to save space I had to go through and delete pretty much all the gifs that had been created before a particular time. I downloaded them to my personal computer to ensure that some record of them remains, but still, I potentially broke tens of thousands of links.
In the future, I'll be putting all sorts of limits on user creations, but I'm curious how bad action like this is?
Generally shutting down a service means you won't have access to it and the data on it anymore.
edit: As a general note, this is IMO one of the fundamental technical deficiencies of the Web today. Keeping website information around shouldn't require active maintenance by the publisher. Imagine if everyone could no longer read the contents of a book once the publisher stopped printing it - what that would do to our access to historical culture? In an era where most users have abundant storage at least by the standards of text, it wouldn't be that hard to invent a protocol where visitors to websites automatically mirror them (the text at least) and mirror them to other clients, forming a decentralized filesystem. Compared to this, the WayBackMachine is an impressive effort, but it's limited by its centralized nature, managed by a single, relatively small non-profit organization.