Icon Guild Archive

Preservation report · August 2026

What survived

The authenticated archive preserves the original guild structure, discussions, people and locally recoverable media. It is read-only and independent of the original site's interactive systems.

1,815preserved pages
6,932forum posts
879local assets
128,053verified page references

Preserved page types

Forum thread pages1,186
Forum and category pages80
Gallery albums and images313
Member and roster pages148
Video category and item pages85
Home and information pages3

Verified

Local archive integrity

  • No broken internal HTML links
  • No missing referenced local image files
  • 272 killshots presented from preserved local originals
  • 28 raid galleries rebuilt as complete, readable collections
  • Host advertising and account controls removed

Incomplete by source

External and missing media

  • 52 videos preserved locally; four now have hosted playback and Epic Worm by Viperman is available as an original-format download
  • 5 video entries remain available only through an external service
  • 17 unavailable video records retain their original YouTube identifiers
  • 48 additional master files are preserved offline; most require browser conversion and dedicated video storage before hosted playback
  • 1,452 post images still depend on external hosts

Dead externally hosted images are retained as evidence and displayed with a clear “image unavailable” marker. The original URL remains available in the page source for future recovery attempts.

Open quality report·Original machine-readable crawl data