Current Projects

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Warrior based projects

• Portalgraphics.net: "Service change" on July 27, 2016 – amount change in stored data. IRC Channel #archiveteam (on hackint).
• Fotolog.com: Photo sharing and social networking site closing on February 20, 2016. Still saving. IRC Channel #fotologout (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).
• LiveJournal: Very old, widely regarded as in decline, and has a lot of important stuff buried in it. IRC Channel #recordedjournal (on hackint).
• RuTracker: Considerable Russian bittorrent tracker in considerable danger. IRC Channel #rutrasher (on hackint).
• PDF 2016: We've been given a long list of PDF files. We'll get'em. IRC Channel #pdflush (on hackint).
• yuku: Lately yuku is very unstable and hosting thousands of forums. IRC Channel #archiveteam (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).

Scripts only

• myVIP: Second most popular Hungarian social network now on the verge of disappearing. IRC Channel #byevip (on hackint).
• FTP: Download all the FTP sites! IRC Channel #effteepee (on hackint).

Help us: ☞ Download and run your warrior ☜.
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Manual projects

• 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).
• NewsGrabber: Saving all news articles. Help with server power or by finding more newssites. IRC Channel #newsgrabber (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).

Proposed projects

• DevPort: This portfolio SaaS provider has reportedly been having infrastructure issues, and removed their social media accounts. Possible impending shutdown.
• Picasa Web Albums: Merging into Google Photos on May 1, 2016. IRC Channel #picasso (on hackint).
• Google Drive web hosting to be discontinued on August 31, 2016.
• Orkut: Orkut got kut on September 30, 2014. It lives on as a public archive until September 2016. IRC Channel #throatkut (on hackint).
• Panoramio: Google is migrating photos only (no metadata!) to Maps. IRC Channel #paranormio (on hackint).
• RadioShack: RadioShack is going bankrupt. IRC Channel #unshackled (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).
• Blipfoto: Went into liquidation on March 11, 2015, future uncertain. Acquired on March 25, 2015, we're still grabbing it anyway. IRC Channel #fotofinish (on hackint).

Recently finished

• THOMAS: U.S. Congress legislative information library – old platform to be retired on July 5, 2016.
• Coursera: Deleting some courses of the old platform on June 30, 2016. IRC Channel #cursera (on hackint).
• Arto: First social media platform of Denmark shut down on June 1, 2016. We've got access till June 30. IRC Channel #archiveteam (on hackint).

Hiatus / Missed the Mark

• DNS History: erasing 7 years of DNS lookup data on July 10, 2016. IRC Channel #greatlookup (on hackint).

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