As some of you guys know that I normally provide a link to the archived version but for some reason, the archiving website is down. Has been for the last few hours... 👀👀👀
A lot of people have noticed the failings of all the archive.is sites.. not just you, not just me. I hope whatever it was is fixable and is being addressed right now.. but its been many hours since it stopped working. Hoping they are ok and this isnt some attack.. which the motivation for is massive given the waves of censorship on essentially all events for every day.
uh, people don't realize how fragile archive is, it is a huge project done by a small group of volunteers on donated old equipment. websites get archived into piles of old computers and NAS devices, which they barley have room for storage (they stopped collecting images several years ago and collect text only now, leaving out images not already saved)hard drives and computers constantly die and they are always losing data and scrambling to get replacement systems up. They self host, it's not in the cloud, to avoid censorship however anything can still disappear from archive forever at any time. not because of censorship, but because of hardware failure and lack of budget.
Thanks for the detail - I was not previously aware how community-driven the site aggregate was. Its actually amazing it is as fast & reliable as the service is, given the way they run on old hardware, volunteers and donations.
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As some of you guys know that I normally provide a link to the archived version but for some reason, the archiving website is down. Has been for the last few hours... 👀👀👀
A lot of people have noticed the failings of all the archive.is sites.. not just you, not just me. I hope whatever it was is fixable and is being addressed right now.. but its been many hours since it stopped working. Hoping they are ok and this isnt some attack.. which the motivation for is massive given the waves of censorship on essentially all events for every day.
uh, people don't realize how fragile archive is, it is a huge project done by a small group of volunteers on donated old equipment. websites get archived into piles of old computers and NAS devices, which they barley have room for storage (they stopped collecting images several years ago and collect text only now, leaving out images not already saved)hard drives and computers constantly die and they are always losing data and scrambling to get replacement systems up. They self host, it's not in the cloud, to avoid censorship however anything can still disappear from archive forever at any time. not because of censorship, but because of hardware failure and lack of budget.
Thanks for the detail - I was not previously aware how community-driven the site aggregate was. Its actually amazing it is as fast & reliable as the service is, given the way they run on old hardware, volunteers and donations.