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What's happening to archive.org? Is it the end of an era? Or, a sign that someone should put up an archive of Web Archive somewhere? (c.im)

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What's happening to archive.org? Is it the end of an era? Or, a sign that someone should put up an archive of Web Archive somewhere?

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[–] cm0002 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They were hacked and user data was stolen, they're also under a DDoS attack.

All the reports I've seen seem to indicate that the archive data is safe, just publicly inaccessible ATM.

I wouldn't say it's the end of an era, but also standing up "an archive of Web Archive" is going to be impractical unless someone has a couple million to burn. Last I saw they stood at 40 PBs (Yes, Petabytes, or 40,000 TBs)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

@[email protected] Wow. That's including the books they archived? Or, just the websites?

O_O I didn't hear about the user data issue.

Hmm… I wonder how long it has been going on. It took a couple of weeks before I got a reply from them that an admin unintentionally deleted my account, now that you mentioned it, my account probably got squeezed between spam accounts or something. (I was just advised to create a new account, and sadly only lists can be restored. T_T )