Patch.com

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Patch.com
Your neighborhood. Your news.
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 List_of_Patch.com_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.