Patch.com

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 ~500.

Current status

antomatic has prepared (what appears to be) a complete list of sites. A prototype seesaw project (no Warrior integration yet) also exists.

There's what looks like a master site map (with links to sub-sitemaps) at http://www.patch.com/sitemaps.xml also.

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.