Nice piece, but I generally disagree with the proposition. This isn’t just a ttrpg problem. Nothing on the internet is permanent. And I’m comfortable with that.
I see you have a neocities site; I had a geocities site, try to find it. I had a public PhishHook database, it’s long gone. Even the Internet Archive won’t last forever.
But of all the knowledge that came before, all the homebrew rules on scraps of paper, all the advice shared at the table, most of that isn’t in the public record either. And yet we continue on without trouble.
It’s human to want to leave a lasting legacy. Always has been. But never will be. Nothing is permanent.
But it’s also human nature to create. So, yes, do that. And when it is destroyed create something else.
My itch page and this comment won’t outlive me.