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Poster designer & collage artist.
Mar 30, 2022 22 tweets 14 min read
1) @Flickr has deleted the Internet Archive Book Images account, effectively removing 5,249,938 searchable @internetarchive book images from every single gallery they were part of, destroying all the added data from comments and tagging done by users over many years. 2) The reasoning seems to be that The Commons is mostly intended for photos, so the book scans didn't really belong, and the account wasn't being maintained: flickr.com/help/forum/721… No warning appears to have been given and there doesn't seem to be a backup of the data available.