Per-platform collectors feed a permanent archive; each platform gets an explorer, search, browse, comment analytics, so millions of posts stay usable, not just stored. The other half is resurrection: I rebuilt billjohnson.net (my great-uncle's family site, 1999–2011) and pixel-nation.org (a 2007–2012 web community I grew up in) from Wayback Machine captures, whole.

The Archive saved pages, not a database. Member profiles were login-walled, images lived on hosts that died years ago, and the forum ran two theme templates across its life. From 1,465 captures: 207 full threads, 2,233 shouts, 124 members, 8 PSP portals you can still run, with login and posting working browser-locally. The chrome on every page is carved out of one real capture, not rebuilt to look like it.

The archives ran in production with daily automated collection. Both resurrections are live: billjohnson.darienbathalter.com and pixel-nation.org. The toolkit came out generic and open source: smf-resurrect rebuilds the live site byte for byte from raw captures, and works on any dead SMF forum.