Archiving is useless. Thank god, it's not possible anymore

But there are automatic archives for most boards without voting shit and obnoxious ads.

>>264159 (OP)
Good. Fucking sick of constantly seeing "omg epic archive nao lol lol lol xDDDDD" posts whenever someone gets a 2 image combo.

Good. Why would you want to see what I wrote 3 years ago on 4chan. I was a totally different person. There is literately no purpose to it.

If there is for some reason a "high quality" (whatever that is) post then I can guarantee someone will have screenshotted it and it will be flavour of the month posted everywhere

If you want that sort of crap try reddit.com/r/4chan, there you can post inane comments and receive a digital penis boost at the same time AND have your post preserved for all eternity so you can link it to your friends and they can bask in the glory of your e-peen

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>>264162
>>264165
>>264166
>people thinking this is a good thing

>>264159 (OP)
If you had donated instead of spending all your money on weed, beer and lube. It might not have closed.

Don't cry though, there is still /r/4chan and /r/classic4chan for your glory days needs.

>>264200
FYI most boards are automatically archived anyway. /b/ threads can be found on a popular subreddit, don't cry over it.

>you know, moot, if you had made an official archive like everyone wants, this wouldn't be a problem.
moot can barely afford to keep 4chan going, he wouldn't have a prayer of keeping an archive going as well. and not everyone wants an archive.

>>264166
>Good. Why would you want to see what I wrote 3 years ago on 4chan.

How would anyone know it was you? unless you are a subhuman tripfag.

>>264204
there were a shitton of threads there that the Foolz Archives didn't have

I don't particularly care for /b//gets/forced memes/whatever, but there was a LOT of other stuff there that I liked.

Nothing of value etc.
Only sad because of the /d/ threads.

alright, capsized here, believe it or not.

i have time for one answer and then i'll already need to leave, but just wanna say a couple things.

i cannot operate the site anymore because paypal permab& me and i cannot pay the server invoices anymore. sure there would be other ways to continue running the site, but i'll add more information probably next monday on the site directly.

>>264159 (OP)
you are wrong in many ways.
4chan can only survive _because_ it has no archive.

>>264163
and i honestly i wish them all the best.

>>264165
if there is something that i'm sorry for then that the site has actually created a new kind of spam.

>>264166
it's not about ones personal history, it is the history of the internets

>>264202
there was enough money to afford a decent server setup.

>>264238
Any possibility of being able to give the data to someone else? We could create another archive.

>>264238
I just want to thank you. I'm so sorry to see this go. Chanarchive was my total escape from the world, it was the best of 4chan with all the children filtered out. Sure there were stupid things archived but they soon went...God I'm going to miss it.

>>264238
>>264242
Yeah, man. I hope your post on monday includes the possibility of getting the site back up somehow. It's basically the "best of 4chan". AND THERE'S REALLY GOOD PORN.

>>264241
i have taken the backups and i will post more information the next days for people willing to continue the archive.

>>264242
don't thank just me. it was the mods who were keeping things running even when i was absent for months.

just cleaning up and shutting down the old server... i'm a sad panda now, but it is the only way to go for me atm...

>>264238
Chanarchive practically raised me, it's taught me so much and brought me years of entertainment. It's crushing to see it go.

I hope there's something we can do, but I'll be waiting for that monday announcement.

>>264238
>i cannot operate the site anymore because paypal permab& me
So /pol/ was right, the jews are behind this.

>>264248
Wow, paypal are cunts
Im neither for or against the archives, but it is always nice to be able to look back on old threads

>>264244
OH I KNOW HOW TO GET RID OF THE SAD PANDA. JUST CHANGE THE VALUE TO 1.

CAN WE HAVE THE ARCHIVE BACK NOW

PLEASE

>>264244
Oh God. Why are the only posts on the chanarchive discussion page shitposting. WHAT HAPPENED.

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>Have literally 35 archived threads in my "reading queue" firefox window that I've been working through.

I am now facing potential disaster. The threads will remain up and readable so long as the window isn't closed. Should it close for any reason, either glitch or natural shut-down, even I reload (from bookmark all) it will just give me 35 instances of the goodbye thread instead of reading material.

>Pic related; It is what I'm now playing.

>>264244
You can donate the archive to the main internet archive. At least do that.

>>264252
I was in the middle of finishing last night's reading session, I'd only got as far as /co/ this morning. Oh the humanity.

I should have donated more.

>>264252
just use a site page saver, and you have those threads as a picture.
At least you have those things to remind you of chanarchive

>>264244
What if you had a friend with a Paypal or collaborated with someone with Paypal? Not me, but just throwing that out there. Also, why did Paypal permab& you? Don't have to talk bout it if you don't want to.

>>264238
Could you perhaps post the source for the site and the current database? (On a torrent or something)
Perhaps people could use it to continue the archive.

>>264159 (OP)
Now I regret bookmarking all awesome threads instead of just doing the extra click and downloading them. Fuck.

>>264260
;_; HOW AM GONNA FIND THAT PORNO MUSIC VIDEO THREAD

My only wish is that the entire site be posted as a torrent so that even if it can't be updated anymore, the things we like don't fade into the aether.

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>>264248
>paypal
>jews
>money
>banks
>/pol/
>/x/
>mfw

google

foolz archive

problem solved newfriends

>>264269
Is foolz a permanent archive, I thought it only archived threads for a short while before getting rid of them, then again. it is rare for mr to wander into the archives

>>264269
That's way too much bullshit for a single person to filter for the good stuff.

Hi
I think that the answer to your question is here </ url>
I think that I can help

>>264269
And for boards that aren't /a/ or /jp/...

>>264269
it is you who is the newfriend, newfriend.

foolz is totally different and doesn't perform anywhere near the same role, it's more of a 404 safety blanket

>>264269
Good luck finding the /x/ oc from around ~2009 like Beau & Vox, John Murray Spear project etc.

>>264279
Fucking hell those were 2009?

Goddam. Goddam.

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All those threads will be lost in time, like tears in rain...
Time to die.

>>264269
>Doesn't save images for more than a month
>Only threads from the recent year
sound like you're the newfag

If source + database gets posted somewhere, i'd probably try and find some people that can do a reboot. If you want, that is.

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>>264281
Memories, you're talking about memories.

You know, guys... ED was down several times and they were able to survive as well. Same will go for the archive-

>>264286
NO YOU'RE LYING IT'S GONE FOREVER IT'S NEVER COMING BACK

FUCK! the archive was great for filtering out a lot of the reposts.....

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>>264264

YES. YES THIS

PLEASE, GIVE US THE TORRENT

this is the internet equivalent of the fire in the library of Alexandria.

we don't care how big the file is, just so long as we can save some semblance of it!

>>264281
>>264284
sealofapproval.jpg

Well this is fucking retarded.
Reminds me of the time you deleted /r9k/. Yeah a lot of worthless shit was lost, but so too was the good stuff. Then you brought it back, but it went to complete shit, worse then before. This will all be the same thing

>>264291
That is a good historical comparison, anon.
And an accurate one.

>>264299
wut r u doin

This is so sad. So many /x/ threads I wanted to read...What can I say besides, fuck this miserable planet.

>>264264

all of my bandwidth

>>264305
666tb

Use Foolz and friends.

>>264238
>i cannot operate the site anymore because paypal permab& me

.. what? Why?

>>264269
Most foolz archives only go back to 09-10, chanarchive had threads going back to 2006.

>foolz is a shit hole that saves everything ever and has no effective filter
>that feel when you had over 5.2 in worthless archive points but you just liked having it
>all that data
>all of the story times, the feels, unique threads
>all of the original content, the creepypasta, the share threads
>all of the fat people stories, the /sp/ call in threads, the Paranormal Janitor threads
>all of the reaction images
>gone forever

Fuck fuckity fuck, man.

>>264238
this is to me the equivalent of a parent dying, the archives have taught me a lot about people's true nature and intentions, as well as entertained me daily and opened worlds for me i didn't even know the existence of
i am usually not one who uses emoticons but ;_;7

The major difference between Foolz and chanarchive is that you essentially need to already have the page saved already if you want to look at something. chanarchive is much better for finding random threads you never new about to read through.

They serve two different purposes so stop comparing them.

>>264316
No, at the moment it seems more like a parent being told they MAY have a terminal illness, so the oldest child (MOOT) takes them out back and shoots them, before checking to see if said parent could possibly be saved, or at the very lest before all the kids could say good bye

>>264320

Hey, read the thread. We might get a new daddy and things might be like they always were.

>>264244

>>264306

we're talking about the single greatest conglomeration of computing and internet fuckery ever seen or ever will be seen, 666tb?

darlin' we're anonymous, we've got this shit covered.

now gib download plox

>>264326
I apologize.
666,420PB

>>264327

fuck me

>>264329

well, on behalf of /k/ at least, what's the size of that chunk?

its not him thats responding 666tb check the trip with
>>264238

>>264331

i knew the trip was different, but I figured it was some other fellow with the stats.

never hurts to ask

Goddamnit, this is what happens when you archive a Candlejack thr-

>>264331
Guys listen I'm official.
69,666,420ZB

Well there's this for /mu/ at least, though there's the problem of finding the good threads in all that mess.

http://archive.rebeccablacktech.com/mu

This will be a good test to see if 4-chan's users can get back to actually doing something worthwhile and helping each other out, like we used to years back instead of spamming images, bitching and trolling.

honestly? When I need advice and a project working on with strangers online I go to reddit every time now. used to be things could get done here.

as a user here since a few weeks after 4chan started, its sad to see things/the boards turn out the way they have.

having mods who have no sense of community, purpose or direction hasn't exactly helped either.

Former mod of chanarchive here. As capsized said earlier he had discussed taking backups of the archive, it's just a matter of someone taking up mantle of the running the project again, which involves knowing the code and what not, so there is hope.

As for why paypal permab& capsized I believe it was because the account used to pay the bills violated their TOS agreement. So paypal then threw us to the wolves.

Well fuck me sideways.....this is horrible.

Why don't you go make good threads NOW instead of whining and living on the past?

>>264342
You think history is to be forgotten? Without this site, we would not know the true origins of the 4chan board-tans or the origins of some of the threads on /b/.

>>264344
>muh culture

Eat a dick faggot, nobody cares and the sooner this mentality dies the better.

>>264344
>You think history is to be forgotten?
i don't need a website to remember things. my memory works. if yours doesn't, seek medical help.

newfags wont know how good 4chan was back then

>>264253
This is a good idea and you should feel good for posting it.

>>264346
>>264346
You kidding? The history and the culture of 4chan is the only thing that keeps it going and will keep it going.

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The archive is working perfectly fine for me I don't understand what you guys are talking about

that faggot finally blew it. GG, Moot, or should i say, faggotlord of buttrape

>>264346
Dude, it has nothing to fucking do with "culture." It's just where funny threads get kept, or useful information is stored in thread form. Nothing wrong with that.

I ONLY went on archives, I couldn't stand the new fags and ppl hating new fags and ppl pretending that they weren't newfags so I used to just look at archives to skip all the bullshit. Surely mootcunt will torrent the old archives, we can't lose all that valuble information. Side note: isn't the new archive site like a few months old? Get rid if that shit and keep the original one, the new one is shithouse anyway.

HISTORY IS GONE FUCK MY LIFE.

is there an effort underway to save some of it? like we did with ED and google's cache? A few archived epic threads of every year is needed. I never went there, but this is like losing a leg of the 4chan body.

Meh, the chanarchive was a pretty bad idea, all the good threads got downvoted anyway.

>>264238
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE publicly upload all the threads you have in the archive for direct public download. split by board or year or whatever you need to.

and thanks a lot for maintaining the site, it was great.

>>264252
save a offline version of the pages, you won't be able to expand the images if you didn't expand them before saving, though. And the process is slow and resource consuming.

>caring about 4chanarchive when every single thread on it is archived elsewhere
Why

>>264344
>>264350
>>264353
>>264360
Grow up, get over it, and stop posting on 4chan if you're so upset about losing the "epic" meme threads

>>264238
a torrent would be nice too. you can even keep the dmca'd stuff in it if you still have it.

What about floaty the cat?

>what is foolz

I have'nt used 4chanarchive in years
Every board I care about is auto archived on foolz and installgentoo, the only thing I'll miss are a few really old threads that's I've forgotten about anyway.

>>264159 (OP)
by having an official archive he would have to deal with dmca's and shit, no?

>>264163
where?

>>264372
>every single thread on it is archived elsewhere
Where, exactly?

>>264382
two that I know of
archive.heinessen.com
archive.foolz.us/

>>264382
foolz
installgentoo
heinessen
warosu
rebeccablacktech

>>264366
disregard. I panicked before I could read the thread. Still, I'm really sad.And I really believe MIB's went to Sherrod at ED and capsized at 4chanarchive and said the night before the plug was pulled "This is what is going to happen, this is why it's going to happen. And if you put up any struggle whasoever, this is some of the stuff that's going to happen. If you cooperate, you will fade from the internet. If you struggle, you are going away for a very long time."

>LET THE THREADS 404 JUST SO U CAN ARCHIVE DEM ON A DIFFERENT SITE MOOT!
I'm going to give you a few minutes to think about how retarded the thought of archiving 4chan is, when since its inception threads have always 404'ed into oblivion.

No really... Think about it.
Use your brain numb nuts.

I'm pretty sad about this. I never bothered to look at the threads I posted in on the archive or the "epic" threads but 4chanarchive and chanarchive were, above all, some of the best sources/aggregates of good images on the internet. Good high res porn on the archived porn board threads, good high res art on the desktop board threads, good whatever the fuck on some /b/ threads. It had a lot of good content on it and it's a real kick in the dick to see it all go tumbling down tumbling down tumbling down...

>>264384
>>264386
They don't go back to 2006, nor do they archive images.
Plus they archive everything, rather than having the community vote on what to keep.

>>264386
>foolz
>installgentoo
>heinessen
>warosu
>rebeccablacktech

Many of these archive sites do not have threads during 2007-2008.

>>264389
Not to mention it would destroy moots already empty wallet with all the server costs.

At any one time, there's about 100GB of content on 4chan.
10-20 days moot has already used a terabyte.
That can't keep happening. It's impossible for his budget.

He has money issues with 4chan as it is.

Also, look at the other sites.
They only archive specific boards because shit's expensive.

>>264373

No one cares about the lol xD threads, chanarchive had a metric asston of magical threads from every board.


>>264384

Find me a thread from 2006 from either archive. Oh wait, you can't.

>>264392
>nor do they archive images
Foolz does.

>>264392
It sounds to me like you'd love /r/4chan

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Terrible news.

I loved the archive. Every evening after a long day from work I'd put my feet up, open it up and see what new threads were up. It was all the crap of the boards filtered out, instead leaving us with gold. Just look at /x/: usually full of shit, but the archives preserved the absolute best threads from there, ones that stop you sleeping at night. Or the good help threads from /cgl/. Or awesome threads of porn.

I'm gutted it's gone, I really am.

I'd offer to help out, but I know jack shit about coding and servers. Moderating yes, but coding, not a chance.

>>264392
>rather than having the community vote on what to keep.

Do I need to tell you why this is a bad thing?

At least if everything is archived, you can always use the search function to find what you want.

>>264395
foolz goes back to 2006, are you blind? Use the search function, click on "oldest first"

Magic

>>264396
I don't think it archives them permanently, does it? Most images just redirect you back to 4chan.

>>264397
Are you fucking with me, or have you just never used 4chanarchive before?

>>264399
It was considerably less retarded than you'd expect, but I take your point.

Posting in epic bread
/r/ing archive nao

am I the only one who really liked the community voting on chanarchive? Everytime I saw some meme spamming /b/ thread or company hate thread from /v/ get a low rating it filled me with a sense of joy knowing that this website would deliver only quality content. Yeah sometimes shit got past security but still I thought it was a great feature how come most people on this thread hate it?

Do a new chanarchive, but change the system. Some threads from specific boards get votedown for nothing.

is there a cached version of the site?
or backup?
can we torrent it?

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Did anyone screencap or save the old threads with Luka Magnotta that were on the archive by any chance? Slim possibility I know, but if anyone did and wants to be a darling and post them, thanks.

There's a lot to be said for the pro's and con's of the archive but for documenting some people's crazy it was pretty useful.

ED blink gone
chanarchive blink gone
4chan blink gone
that's the way it will happen

There HAS to be someone who is willing to keep it going. I'd prefer a system more similar to 4chanarchive, though. User regulated archives based on votes was pretty fucked up. All the /b/ repost bonananzas got a billion upvotes, while legitimately great threads got downvoted by fuckers who thought they were le epick le trollz.
Save the archive. Go back to privileged archive regulation.

>>264411
>>264413
>>264417

Chanarchive mod here again. Indeed there was a number of pro's and cons for the archive. The old 4chan archive was ducktaped together and hard to run, so the new one was created.

It was still in it's infancy so it had a number of bugs, and there were plans for other features to be implemented, but capsized is only one man, and has a busy schedule. So unfortunately many of these things to improve the archive did not make it. Even so with his hard work he managed to keep it running pretty smoothly.

well, there goes the hentai.

moot ## Admin
11/02/12(Fri)14:09
No.264485

moot ## Admin 11/02/12(Fri)14:09 No.264485

Replies: >>264497 >>264505 >>264518 >>264620 >>264667 >>267442

>>264295
Huh? I have nothing to do with 4chanarchive and never have. 4chan != 4chanarchive.

>>264238
You should give the archive to Jason Scott of textfiles.com. Jason already has a large 4chan archive and is one of the leads of Archive Team and works for Internet Archive.

>>264485
Oh, hey, Moot.

>>264456
Yeah, this is the thing I'm worried most about. They had such a good cornucopia of pornography.

>>264497
capsized does have backups, though, it's just what he's going to do with them.

>>264485
Any chance of you hosting an official archive then?

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;_;7 rip

>>264505

He answered that in a different thread.
>>261558 →

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>>264485

faggot shut up this is all your fault go fuck yourself gtfo my 4chan

Hrm. I wonder if some type of upload of the files would be possible. I still had some treads to go threw.

>>264518
>telling moot to gtfo "my 4chan"
Whether or not you were trying to be ironic, you look like the biggest fuckup on the Internet.

dude
we want torrent nao

>>264388
Sherrod's failed attempt at turning ED into know your meme had nothing to do with "MIB".

>>264423
ED's not gone.

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>>264522
it's okay newfriend

>>264532
It is dead, though.

>>264413
That doesn't warrant the creation of a whole new system. Individual threads are also voted down for nothing. Shut up chanarchive was fine, my only complaints are that thread downloads were broken and it didn't always load a full thread.

>>264541
And if the majority of users don't want to be exposed to /mlp/ and /hm/ then they shouldn't be, which is what was happening.

>>264546
>oh no, I see stuff that I don't like on the internet which I could easily ignore! Raaaaaaaaage! I must downvote!

first, captcha
now this
jesus christ 4chan and affiliates, official or not. you are undermining my expectations

-wowaname !COOOOOLbus

I suck massive dicks

-wowaname !COOOOOLbus

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>>264546
No they aren't.

>>264538
but we can still access the material

>>264565
>implying they never try to extend their cancer to other boards
I don't give a flying fuck about them anyway
just wanted to say that

>>264571
>implying they never try to extend their cancer to other boards
But they don't. Everyone excepts the dumbest of /v/irgins and /b/tards knows that /mlp/ regulars deliberately avoiding posting with ponies elsewhere.

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4chan is resilient, perhaps due to its popularity, but all things not condoned by the Christian or Jewish overlords will be put to sleep and accused in the media of aiding pedo's and rapists therefore it was the right thing to do.

It started with the internet being made by Anons, for Anons. After a decade the world was dependant on the Internet so everyone wants to take it over and make it their own. Anons will be forced out of the internet, and I dare say that the day 4chan is choked to death by the might of the world's elites, is the day the people of the world will no longer own the internet.

Freedom of speech is a luxury in a world dominated by rich politicians and corporations whose interests are to silence your opinion and force you to buy their goods and pay their taxes and vote for one of 2 elites.

4chan, the last bastion of freedom in the increasingly branded world of the internet.

>>264578
I had that book
lol

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>>264578
>4chan, the last bastion of freedom in the increasingly branded world of the internet.

Don't you mean Reddit?

>>264583

Wow seriously? Are you new to the internet or something?

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>>264589
Prove me wrong.

>>264594
"We don't like what you do with your internet freedoms and we are going to protest and petition until you are gone."

-radfeminazis having their way on reddit

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>>264596
We don't need petitions. We have /q/.

>>264600
Quitcha shitpostin.


[spoiler]...Who drew that picture? I forget. [/spoiler]

>>264600
upvotes/downvotes

done

now go

>>264603
I'm not shitposting, but I don't appreciate when someone misrepresents our position. Freedom? In the real world shit gets restricted. That's the way the world works. This is a privately owned website, not a libertarian paradise.

>>264605
In a libertarian paradise ALL websites are privately owned, you fucking idiot. Also, 4chan only deletes off-topic posts and illegal stuff. You definitely have more freedom than on reddit, where your opinion can be made invisible by morally outraged mobs, or be put on the blacklist by the social justice league.

We over at ED may have some extra server space / bandwidth if you can outline what are your current hosting requirements.

Mail me, e (@) encyclopediadramatica (.) se

Letting internet history go away is not something I am interested in seeing happen.

>>264538


ED is neither gone nor dead.

When sherrod killed it in 2011, we mirrored it's contents and started up ED2 at encyclopediadramatica.se, we are far from dead.

>>264613
No one cares about ED anymore since the plug was pulled the first time. Your newer articles are also not as good as the older stuff (how is that even possible?)

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Fuckin Mother fuckin fuck

thisshitsucks.jpeg

For some reason I have been on a bender the last few weeks...downloading image zip files from the archive. Some haven't even been unzipped yet.

Now I know why... just the tip of the iceberg I know.
around 120 files...but if this ship is sunk for good, I would be willing to torrent what I have and if others would do the same we could at least save some of the images.

Don't go spell-check Nazi on my folder names faggot...it's my computer and I don't care.

whatever.com

>>264547
It's a stain on the homepage.

>>264610
>morally outraged mobs

Our mods=Reddit's Mobs

You're just biased because you love 4chan so much. The idea of 4chan as the very last bastion of freedom is just plain silly. If you want true freedom you know where you have to go. Besides, you can supposedly talk about almost anything on Reddit.

>>264485
Moot, did you see the Defcon talk about Jason Scott being sued for 2 billion dollars?
It's pretty cool.
Textfiles.com is awesome.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gq70QKa7588

>>264614

The site is user generated content. If the content isn't good enough, make some "good" content then. I only run it, I don't make articles.

The plug was pulled because the previous owner (sherrod) had supposedly been pressured by an internet stalker (brandt) to cease operations. She instead tried to cash in on the popularity of ED by turning it into KYM 2.0. That hasn't gone well for her. OhInternet is a barren wasteland, with barely any changes per day.

>>264618
>Our mods=Reddit's Mobs

No threads on 4chan get deleted for having unpopular opinions.

>>264621
>The plug was pulled because the previous owner (sherrod) had supposedly been pressured by an internet stalker (brandt) to cease operations.

That's why you don't give women the fucking keys. The selfish whore.

>>264623
The worst part is that she refuses to give us any of the missing images / articles that we haven't been able to scrape from archives and stuff.

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This is now.

>>264623
She created it, and was pretty loved up until the whole OhInternet/not giving us the fucking backups of ED thing.

>>264622
You keep telling yourself that. It's not necessarily a bad thing. You can't measure the worth of a site by how many of muh freedoms are allowed. Enjoy your day faggot.

>>264626
>She created it

That doesn't make it any less reprehensible. Creating a community does not give you the right to shatter the foundation of that community without warning. We wouldn't let Shakespeare strut into the Smithsonian and piss on the Mona Lisa just because he drew it.

>>264629

Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa...

>>264627
>You keep telling yourself that

Prove that they do get deleted.

>It's not necessarily a bad thing.

Yes, it is.

>You can't measure the worth of a site by how many of muh freedoms are allowed.

Yes, you can. Especially forums that permit public debate. Especially when they are a rare thing to begin with.

>>264625
see
>>>/pol/6813724

>>264631
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joke

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It was the best pic i've uploaded from /s/

RIP

>>264634

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

>>264626
That's because the public was kept in the dark.

>>264629
I know, I agree.
It would've been at least a little better if she'd just said, but one day it went down for "technical difficulties" or whatever it was and never came back up.

>>264639

She could have saved a lot of face if she announced that she would be shutting down ED for good with a week's notice. Then again, it'd be probably like the "whale who cried wolf" considering she'd regularly announce that ED would be shut down if there weren't any donations, and the public would have probably have seen it as another bullshit donation ploy so she could buy more food to fatten herself up with.

DOES ANYONE HAVE THAT CASTRATION STORY FROM THE ARCHIVE???? THAT WAS MY FAVORITE THREAD

>>264642
backup does

In all seriousness, the archive was becoming shit anyway. foolz is better

>>264645
I use the archive because it doesn't contain all the regular daily shit that you have to sift through for the good stuff.

>>264641
But the thing is, she never wanted ED to survive. Right now we'd be talking about Lurkmoar or some other ED offshoot if it wasn't for the fact that we lucked out and had archived versions of ED.

>>264618

Forget about the child porn thing already? Reddit is pure cancer.

>>264645
how was it becoming shit?

>>264632
Threads are deleted under "shitposting" and inane garbage all the time. You can call it all off-topic, but what's on topic is decided by the people in charge. What you don't understand is that 4chan isn't run the way you want it to be run. Everything is decided by moot and the mods and your idea of freedom doesn't play a part. Which is not necessarily a bad thing so long as they stay the way they are now. If they change too much, then we're in for it. It's all personal preference, so stop pretending we stand for something. We don't.

>>264646
Good point. Wheres that backup at

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>>264583
you better be trolling.

>>264648
>Forget about the child porn thing already?

Remind me.

>>264647

It's a good thing that the current owners of ED.se want to see the wiki survive, considering we release monthly archives and run another version via hidden service (.onion).

>>264651
/r9k/ only deletes porn and illegal stuff.

Fucking sick of this bullshit. Everything is dying or going away. This fucking year. I've seriously had enough.

>>264641
That would have saved everybody a lot of trouble, but alas she did what she did and just casually threw ED aside. At least it lives on through a massive community effort. I do wonder what ODB would have made of the situation, though.

>whale who cried wolf
Oh fuck, my sides.

>>264657
What in the world makes you think I use /r9k/? Anyway you get the idea. Just don't go telling everyone this is a bastion of freedom. They'll just use it as a license to do whatever they want.

>>264650
Cap is that you?

Legitimately good threads stopped getting archived, while shit threads were. Also very small threads kept getting archived (like 10 posts). It was not as it used to be.

Imma ask again, is there a backup? No need to pull another DeHippo on us

capsized here again...

>>264485
...
it takes the death of the archive to even get a comment from you moot? not holding a grudge, not at all. since running the archive i can imagine what it means to run a site for such a long time. guys, give moot kudos for his long time motivation.

>>264612
this is the kind of support i was looking for to save the archive. i'll get back to you in a few days.

for everyone who is interested: the archives 4chanarchive and chanarchive together take about 500gb diskspace and require 45tb bandwidth a month (50k visitors a month). using cloudflare this is reduced to 13tb/month.
chanarchive alone is 200gb files, 21tb/month (8tb with cloudflare). linux server with following stack: ruby 1.9, rails 2.3, passenger, nginx.

the older php based 4chanarchive needs to die anyways so if someone is able to provide the environment for chanarchive, then i'd even provide installation support and financial jumpstart.

i'll still post all that on the actual site, but i'd ask for some patience.

also, i'm trying to read all the feedback here and in the disqus thread on the site (200 comments in 6 hours? this is crazy!) and i'll try my very best to save the archive in some form for future generations.

>>264659

If anyone can convince her to release archives to us, our offer still stands to take that content and put it on ED.se. It's really little of her (ironic considering she's fucking huge) to deny the community (one which she at one point helped build) content which they created because she's too butthurt because her lame excuse for a website is failing hard.

To this very day, she refuses to acknowledge the existence of ED.se on OhInternet out of sheer spite. Even the Wikipedia article (after a lot of wikipedo argument) has finally gotten with the times.

>>264667
hello capsized
mexican here
it's a great job you did with the archive
I hope you can get it to run in an even better fashion soon

thanks, and good luck

>>264664

Because of the shitty Reddit-esque voting system

I didn't like the style change when it moved to chanarchive, it's 4chan archive not fucking reddit.

>>264668
She's obviously butthurt now, since OH isn't pulling the crowd she thought she would get. No one uses her shit, and ED is still alive and kicking.

>>264667

I think we can help. We've streamlined hosting costs, and have cut the cost of hosting ED.se to around $250/mo, with plenty of resources to spare.

Contact me via e-mail and we can discuss technicalities.

>>264667
Would you consider uploading a torrent somewhere? 500GB is a lot but I'm sure there's more than a few anons who'd like a copy.

Thanks for everything, it's a shame to see you go.

>>264668
Does said archive actually exist? I seem to remember her saying there wasn't one, but I could be talking completely out my ass here.

>>264676

She's told me personally that she does have backups of ED.com and refuses to release them on grounds of "liability."

>>264670
just to clarify one more thing:
whatever the future of chanarchive will be, it will be definitely be without me.

>>264681
That makes me sad. But, let's just hope the next owner hates MLP

>>264675
you'll hear from me.

>>264676
500gb is both archives together. chanarchive has more content but is only about 200gb due to efficient storage methods (no duplicate images).
unfortunately, creating a torrent that you could browse on your local machine is not as straight forward as zipping it all up and sharing it.

That defeats the purpose of 4chan OP.

>>264682
for the sake of the archive i hope the future admin(s) will continue the neutral and indiscriminating way of the archive so far. as an archivist you cannot let your own opinions influence decisions on what content you allow.

>>264687
>creating a torrent that you could browse on your local machine is not as straight forward as zipping it all up and sharing it.

Don't think that's all too important, as long as the actual content gets saved.


>>264654

Your selective memory is impressive.

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/02/policy-shift-reddit-bans-child-pornography.html
http://observer.com/2012/02/reddit-expressly-bans-child-porn/

Our beloved goons:
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3466025

>>264687

>500GB is both archives together
Oh, sorry. Misread that.

>unfortunately, creating a torrent that you could browse on your local machine is not as straight forward as zipping it all up and sharing it.
Ah, fair enough.

Once again, thanks for everything. Never thought this day would come, really.

>>264402
The image server can hold images for several months before pruning them. It seems intermittent, though.

>>264637
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism

>>264694
/b/ =/= 4chan
other boards appreciate the chance of having an archive

>>264703

I think it's less the image server, and more CloudFlare's cache.

>>264701
>Your selective memory is impressive.

Sorry, got you mixed up with the rectalsmarted redditor defense squad.

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>feeling down
>'well at least I can always check out the archive'
>click the bookmark
>mfw

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>>264712
I know that feel bro

>like 12 hours ago
>awesome hot nun thread
>struggle to bump it to get enough votes for archive
>we thought it would not make it since it was above bump limit
>suddenly someone gives the last vote
>we circlejerk happily, OP is excited like a virgin that finally got screwed as it's his first archived thread

>come back in the morning to see thread again at the archives
>mfw

>>264714
where's the nun thread?