What’s happening to archive.org? Is it the end of an era? Or, a sign that someone should put up an archive of Web Archive somewhere?
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They were hacked and user data was stolen, they’re also under a DDoS attack.
All the reports I’ve seen seem to indicate that the archive data is safe, just publicly inaccessible ATM.
I wouldn’t say it’s the end of an era, but also standing up “an archive of Web Archive” is going to be impractical unless someone has a couple million to burn. Last I saw they stood at 40 PBs (Yes, Petabytes, or 40,000 TBs)
@cm0002 Wow. That’s including the books they archived? Or, just the websites?
O_O I didn’t hear about the user data issue.
Hmm… I wonder how long it has been going on. It took a couple of weeks before I got a reply from them that an admin unintentionally deleted my account, now that you mentioned it, my account probably got squeezed between spam accounts or something. (I was just advised to create a new account, and sadly only lists can be restored. T_T )
It’s under attack.
as many people has are able should have archives of the web archive.
It’s such a huge undertaking, though, that instead for over a decade now we’ve just been losing data by the truckload daily
@Varyk@sh.itjust.works Yep, it’s challenging and sad. Even Wikipedia use it as a resource and backup of sources.
And there are also those using it to archive copyright infringement, or as a record of a work’s license at the time (specially since some loves to change the license when they originally released it in Creative Commons or the Public Domain).
It’s crazy though that there was no service as close to the features archive.org has. The only one I’m aware of available publicly is archive.ph / archive.md but they don’t offer the archiving of links found, and it’s pretty much very static only (TiddlyWiki sites don’t work correctly).
T_T
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