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Steam Users' Forums: Valve's a bit eager to kill one of the largest vBulletin forums in the world on June 5th. IRC Channel #outofsteam (on hackint).
Flickr: Yahoo! decided to kill it, now Yahoo has been acquired. IRC Channel #flickrfckr (on hackint).
ftp-gov: Oh, just everything the United States government hosts on FTP. Part of the wider Government Backup efforts. IRC Channel #cheetoflee (on hackint).
NewsGrabber: Saving all news articles. Help with server power or by finding more newssites. IRC Channel #newsgrabber (on hackint).
Ipernity: Partnership talks remain rocky, fate remains unclear through February 2017. IRC Channel #ipfinite (on hackint).
Yahoo! Answers: It's Yahoo. It's been acquired. More questions? IRC Channel #noanswers (on hackint).
PDF 2016: We've been given a long list of PDF files. We'll get'em. IRC Channel #pdflush (on hackint).
URLTeam: URL shorteners were a fucking awful idea. IRC Channel #urlteam (on hackint).
WikiTeam (WARC format): Saving wikis and their external links for the Wayback Machine. IRC Channel #wikiteam (on hackint).

AOL: Climbing into the decaying walled garden. IRC Channel #aohell (on hackint)
ArchiveBot: For those with lots of disk space, bandwidth and long-term commitment. IRC Channel #archivebot (on hackint).
Audit 2014: It's time to verify our shit. IRC Channel #auditteam (on hackint).
Froogle: Let's do a census of all of Google's products. IRC Channel #froogle (on hackint).
FTP: Help us find all FTP sites! IRC Channel #effteepee (on hackint).
INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK: Grab a slice of the big cake of The Archive! IRC Channel #internetarchive.bak (on hackint).
ISP Hosting: Finding ISP web hosting services before the Grim Reaper finds them. IRC Channel #webroasting (on hackint).
Project Newsletter: Archiving e-newsletters, currently in development. IRC Channel #projectnewsletter (on hackint).
Valhalla: Where to store what even the Internet Archive doesn't have space for? IRC Channel #huntinggrounds (on hackint).
WikiTeam (XML dumps): Exporting Mediawiki databases. Permanent effort, everyone can help (you choose the size of your downloads). IRC Channel #wikiteam (on hackint).
Woohoo: Yahoo is untrustworthy, let's do a census of all their products. IRC Channel #woohoo (on hackint).

DeviantART: Being bought by Wix, users may be unhappy with "access to that work to use in their own site building" on Wix. IRC Channel #devianttart (on hackint).
LiveJournal: Very old, widely regarded as in decline, and has a lot of important stuff buried in it. IRC Channel #recordedjournal (on hackint).
Vine: Twitter killed the app, but videos likely won't last forever. IRC Channel #vinewhine (on hackint).
DevPort: This portfolio SaaS provider has reportedly been having infrastructure issues, and removed their social media accounts. Possible impending shutdown.
Tumblr: Yahoo! considered killing it, now Yahoo has been acquired. IRC Channel #stumblr (on hackint).
Ownlog: Ownlog is losing popularity and support from its owners. IRC Channel #pwnlog (on hackint).
Google Groups: "Gone within a year" (SketchCow, 2016-06-07).
SoundCloud: Might get blown away by Hurricane Debt and Hurricane Copyright. IRC Channel #soundclown (on hackint).
The Pirate Bay: Recently came back up, grabbing an archive for sanity's sake. IRC Channel #yarharfiddlededee (on hackint).

MLKSHK: We're going in for round 2. IRC Channel #totheyard (on hackint).
Google Code: Google likes Github more. Shut down on January 26, 2016, but we got a chance to go on saving. IRC Channel #googlecodeblue (on hackint).

yuku: Lately yuku is very unstable and hosting thousands of forums. Project currently on hiatus. IRC Channel #archiveteam (on hackint).

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