Post #1055523
2026-04-08 00:48 UTC
@ocean Archive Team are on it, it seems: https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Angelfire . Probably best to go check on the status over there on their IRC. It's very easy to contribute to Archive Team rescue ops, they have a VM image for volunteers to run that joins their swarm and contributes some bandwidth to the effort.
EDIT: looks like maybe not actively crawling it right now, but if Angelfire's death is making you have activist feelings about preserving the old web, ArchiveTeam is the crew for you! They have a swarm of crawlers that can be retasked to new things, they may just need someone who cares to write the necessary code to spin up the crawl. Not sure if you can go from zero to useful in the timeframe Angelfire needs, but if you want to be a preservation activist in general, you'll probably have more impact with them than alone.
Replies (3)
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@Li@tech.lgbt 2026-04-08 01:12
@danderson @ocean how do i get that vm image? i have a few servers i could throw that on
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@imrehg@fosstodon.org 2026-04-08 02:03
@danderson @ocean I was looking at that project, but it says its status is "On Hiatus", so I don't think it's currently active?
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@imrehg@fosstodon.org 2026-04-08 04:35
@danderson @ocean I've looked through the scraper (last change 7 years ago), and fixed things up rough-and-dirty (will clean up and push it to GitHub there too, shortly). The scraper runs, but since ArchiveTeam has no jobs out, it just idles. I guess it will need central coordination, or maybe I've missed something? 🤔