Fifteen Years of glitchdata News, Restored — Now With Photo Galleries
By glitchdata Team 2 min read
Moving a website shouldn't mean losing its history. As glitchdata.com moved to its new platform, we brought the news archive with it.
The Whole Archive
Every post from the original site's News category made the move — 72 of them, from the Open Source Developers Conference in November 2011 to the 2026 federal budget's data and ICT investments. Each keeps its original title, date and text, converted from WordPress into clean, readable pages.
Nothing Left Pointing Nowhere
Links rot quietly during migrations. To avoid that, the images in every post — covers and photos inside articles — are now kept with the site rather than hot-linked from the old one. Links from one post to another have been rewritten to their new addresses, and gallery thumbnails that used to point at WordPress attachment pages now simply show the photo. Where an image was already missing on the old site, the post shows none rather than a broken frame.
Galleries You Can Actually See
The old site showed its photo galleries as rows of tiny thumbnails. Posts with galleries — such as OSDC 2011 — now show a proper grid, and selecting a photo opens a full-screen viewer with its caption. Move between photos with the arrow buttons, the keyboard or a swipe, and press Escape to close. Photos inside the text of any post open in the same viewer.
A Consistent Format
New posts, like this one, now open with a Key Takeaways box and a Table of Contents built from the section headings, and every post shows its reading time. Archived posts pick up the reading time and contents automatically.
Why It Matters
An archive is a record of what an organisation noticed and cared about over time. Keeping it intact — images, links and all — means fifteen years of commentary on data, security and technology stays readable, searchable and linkable on the new site.