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Patch.com | |
Your neighborhood. Your news. | |
URL | http://www.patch.com/ |
Status | Closing |
Archiving status | In progress... |
Archiving type | Unknown |
Project source | https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/patch-grab |
Project tracker | here |
IRC channel | #cabbagepatch (on hackint) |
Patch.com is a "hyperlocal" news community which is being downsized from its current ~900 sites to ~600.
Current status
antomatic has prepared (what appears to be) a complete list of sites. A prototype seesaw project (no Warrior integration yet) also exists.
Next steps
Patch subdomains are (1) big and (2) appear to implement some sort of request cap per IP per unit time. (You'll start getting HTTP 420s after a while.) We need to investigate whether we need to implement a complicated mechanism to split up individual sites and then megawarc them together, or just take each site slowly (e.g. n requests every hour).
Pop in the IRC channel if you want to help.