First noteworthy aspect: When the OP author posted, the same day, a nearly identical question on the DhammaWheel forum, in both cases, the relative powers-that-be immediately responded reassuringly, suspiciously so, and discussion went on from there about the various ins-and-outs of a noble quest to counteract anicca.
One comment noted:
“Not rarely, online interactions are low-efficacy, low-committment, low-quality. From that perspective, it would actually help to shut down various online Buddhist establishments.”
It’s laborious enough trying to sift through material here (either, any forum) while it’s still fresh; imagine some poor anthropologist a millennium or so down the road trying to make sense of it. 
In my own case, I do occasionally note how fishing for something to add a post about somewhere on a forum reeks of a sort of tanha, the need for some burningly salient viewpoint to “become”; not to mention archiving stuff locally here for future reference as clearly a form of upadana, like stock-piling food or firewood…
sujato 2016-12-16 23:59:21 UTC #2
“Digital data is by its nature transient, and there is no guarantee that any of the data that exists today will survive the many existential threats we face.”
improvateur 2016-12-17 07:57:12 UTC #6
“As technology changes, the problem becomes how to migrate information to the new ‘standard.’ And who will keep a functional museum of obsolete equipment with which to extract data from outdated media that turn up from time to time.”
The picture takes on a certain vividness when one’s been around the block a time or two. After paper-tape and punch cards (I still have boxes of the Fortran II code for Max Matthews’ original “Music V” program), then came ½-inch mag tapes and 3/4-inch DEC-tapes; then 8-inch floppies; I still have boxes of 5-1/4 inch “floppies” (Apple ][ vintage), and 3.5 inch rigid floppies, original low-density and generations of higher densities; not to mention Zip-drives; then CDs, CVDs, and now rapidly proliferating generations of USB media. In another 10-20 years will any of this be readable on then “state-of-the-art” devices? As the old-timers die out, perhaps new generations will take a fascination with resurrecting media.
re: After ten years, Buddhist Geeks shuts down - Lions Roar
That something with the label “geek” lasts no more than 10 years – another occasion for Steven Levine’s memorable exclamation “Big Surprise!” (Who remembers him?). With luck, the effects of which (geekdom) will also wear-off, and Buddha Dhamma will again have a life of its own – oral memorization and person-to-person transmission of practice and realization of the teaching.
btw: Some flavors of “geek” lifestyle are comparable to monastic life, or at least “ascetic” – working 20-hour days for months on end. (Think the apocryphal story of Bill Gates showing up for a meeting with high-level IBM executives in clothes he worn for a week or so of all-nighters.) And s/t the spirit of the “warrior”, like the once famed and universally feared Knights Templar: monastic warriors with religious fervor and no fear of death. (Think present-day “jihad” warriors.) As in the fad here in Silicon Valley over the last few years of “hacker Dojos”, where kids hang-out all hours of the day glued to keyboards and screens. The “soterilogical” aspect is just a bit different; no particular goal, other than perhaps spawning a viral “start-up” and becoming a billionaire overnight.
