Current Projects

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Warrior-based projects

ArchiveTeam's Choice: DeviantArt
  • Your Shot: National Geographic no longer cares about it, nor anybody else's shots. IRC Channel #gotshot (on hackint).
  • Angelfire: Angelfire is a web hosting service that contains big chunks of early WWW history and has no proper backup. IRC Channel #angelonfire (on hackint).
  • URLTeam: URL shorteners were a fucking awful idea. IRC Channel #urlteam (on hackint).

Scripts only

  • FTP: Download all the FTP sites! IRC Channel #effteepee (on hackint).
  • NewsGrabber: Saving all news articles. Help with server power or by finding more news sites. IRC Channel #newsgrabber (on hackint).

Manual projects

Active Projects Not Yet Ingesting

  • Yahoo! Groups: Years of internet threads, soon to go private-only. IRC Channel #yahoosucks (on hackint)
  • Freeml: Japanese mailing list provider is sending its final email December 2nd. IRC Channel #fml (on hackint).
  • Reddit: Banning communities that generate bad PR for Reddit Inc. IRC Channel #shreddit (on hackint).

Proposed projects

Recently finished projects

  • Sketch: Sony doesn't seem to like their user's sketches. Shut down 2019-09-30. IRC Channel #SketchedOut (on hackint).
  • TinyPic: Millions of tiny pics from the late 2000s/early 2010s were scattered to the winds on September 16th September 9th. IRC Channel #tinydick (on hackint).
  • The Artist Union: Staff have gone dark for some time, this site is in danger of being lost to time. IRC Channel #theabandonoftheartists (on hackint).

Hiatus / Missed the Mark

  • Flickr: Yahoo! SmugMug decided to kill it after finding Yahoo!'s plans to do so before they were bought by Verizon. IRC Channel #flickrfckr (on hackint).
  • Tumblr: Yahoo! considered killing it, now Yahoo has been acquired and Verizon declared war on NSFW blogs. IRC Channel #tumbledown (on hackint).
  • Google News Archive: Let's store all newspapers at Google, WCGW? IRC Channel #papersplease (on hackint).
  • Quizlet: Flashcards and other learning tools IRC Channel #quizletusin (on hackint).
  • yuku: Lately yuku is very unstable and hosting thousands of forums. Project currently paused. IRC Channel #archiveteam (on hackint).
  • Audit 2014: It's time to verify our shit. IRC Channel #auditteam (on hackint). THIS PROJECT IS ON HIATUS AND WILL BE RETURNED TO AS AUDIT2018.
  • Google Groups: "Gone within a year" (SketchCow, 2016-06-07).
  • DevPort: This portfolio SaaS provider has reportedly been having infrastructure issues, and removed their social media accounts. Possible impending shutdown.

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