https://indieweb.org/PBWorks#Criticism
Cannot edit without JS
If you have JS turned off or disabled like with the NoScript extension, the "Edit" button doesn't work (it doesn't do anything).
No page that lists all pages
There is no list of all wiki pages by default except in the sidebar loaded in via Javascript. This means making an archive of the site using a tool like wget will not find all the pages. To compensate for this, you can create a wiki page called AllPages or similar, and add a link to every page from that page. Then wget will follow those links since they appear in the HTML and will actually download every page.
Auto-reclaim site-deaths
After 11 months of inactivity (lack of edits?) PBWorks will send an email (presumably to admins?) with a warning, and then in 30 days, delete the entire wiki (name.pbworks.com) and all content therein. E.g. for workspace "ifbt": (actual text of email received)
Hello,
We noticed that you haven't used your workspace named: ifbt for over 11 months.
As you may have heard, we reclaim workspaces that have fallen into disuse (PBworks Spring Cleaning).
Reclaiming these idle workspaces frees up thousands of potentially useful URLs for people who will actually put them to use. We're planning to reclaim your workspace in 30 days.
If you want to keep your workspace, click here. If you're not currently logged into your PBworks account, you'll be asked to log in. You'll know that your workspace has been removed from the deletion list once the warning message disappears.
If you're truly no longer using your workspace, simply do nothing, and in 30 days, we'll delete the unused workspace and reclaim its URL.
Thanks,
The PBworks Team
Who knows how many site-deaths have occurred due to this auto-reclamation.
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