--- title: "All About Archive — Rafe Blandford" description: "All About and mobile history, Symbian and more." canonical: "https://rafeblandford.com/tag/all-about-archive/" describedby: "https://rafeblandford.com/llms.txt" updated: "2026-07-24" --- # All About Archive — Rafe Blandford > All About and mobile history, Symbian and more. 14 posts, newest first. The Markdown form of [All About Archive](https://rafeblandford.com/tag/all-about-archive/); for the whole site see [llms.txt](https://rafeblandford.com/llms.txt). - [Modernising the archive: what the search data says](https://rafeblandford.com/modernising-the-archive-search-data.md) — 2026-07-24 · Static, schema, Lighthouse to the top marks — did Google notice? Sixteen weeks of Search Console data on 145,000 modernised pages. - [Preserving Flickr Archive with a Data Lifeboat](https://rafeblandford.com/preserving-my-flickr-archive.md) — 2026-04-29 · Two decades of press events, device launches and MWC show floors live in my Flickr archive. How I preserved it with a Data Lifeboat. - [Building Author Authority for a preserved website](https://rafeblandford.com/building-author-authority.md) — 2026-04-12 · How do you establish E-E-A-T for a site that's no longer publishing? Making two decades of credentialed authorship visible to search engines. - [Adding Schema.org to 145k Static Pages](https://rafeblandford.com/adding-schema-org-to-145000-pages.md) — 2026-04-12 · Adding structured data is a template change on a live CMS. On 145,000 static HTML files from a CMS that no longer exists, it's a different problem. - [What Google Search Console actually tells you (and what to do about it)](https://rafeblandford.com/what-google-search-console-tells-you.md) — 2026-04-11 · A day after cutting over DNS for the archive sites, Search Console had opinions. Setting up programmatic access and working through what it flagged. - [Migrating 200,000 comments](https://rafeblandford.com/migrating-200000-comments-to-remark42.md) — 2026-04-09 · Nearly 200,000 Disqus comments were part of the archive's editorial record. Migrating them to self-hosted Remark42 — and owning the community again. - [Every Nokia N-Gage Game](https://rafeblandford.com/every-nokia-ngage-game-ever-made.md) — 2026-04-08 · A complete directory of every game developed for Nokia's N-Gage — released and cancelled — assembled two decades after the taco-phone jokes. - [Bringing N-Gage Home](https://rafeblandford.com/bringing-ngage-home.md) — 2026-04-07 · N-Gage's story is half-remembered jokes; the detail has been offline since 2020. Integrating Nokia's gaming archive back into the historical record. - [What 449k forum posts tell us About Symbian](https://rafeblandford.com/what-449000-forum-posts-tell-us.md) — 2026-04-06 · Stats from the restored AAS forum: what 449,000 posts reveal about the rise and fall of a technology community — things no market-share graph captures. - [Bringing back the forum — 449,000 posts](https://rafeblandford.com/bringing-back-the-forum.md) — 2026-04-05 · The All About Symbian forum — 449,000 posts from 39,000 members, 2001–2013 — restored as a static archive after a decade offline. - [Claude Code as a migration partner](https://rafeblandford.com/claude-code-as-a-migration-partner.md) — 2026-04-04 · Two days, three sites, 20 years of content moved off a dying server, with Claude Code as primary operator. What the collaboration actually looked like. - [Optimising an old codebase for modern web standards](https://rafeblandford.com/optimising-a-decade-old-codebase.md) — 2026-04-02 · Taking the archive's decade-old codebase from Lighthouse scores in the 70s to modern web standards before freezing the pages forever. - [Preserving All About Symbian](https://rafeblandford.com/preserving-all-about-symbian.md) — 2026-04-01 · All About Symbian was the go-to destination for Nokia and Symbian coverage. How — and why — I preserved it as a permanent static archive. - [Archiving 20 years of mobile history](https://rafeblandford.com/archiving-20-years-of-mobile-history.md) — 2026-03-31 · Three sites, 24,000+ articles documenting the rise and fall of entire mobile ecosystems — migrated from a dying server into a permanent static archive. --- [Homepage](https://rafeblandford.com/index.md) · [All writing](https://rafeblandford.com/writing.md) · [llms.txt](https://rafeblandford.com/llms.txt)