Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This September

 (blog.archive.org)

101 points | by sonicrocketman 1 hour ago

9 comments

  • Cider9986 56 minutes ago
    THere's also archive.today who does great user-directed archiving. We don't appreciate this infrastructure some random guy runs enough.

    It's annoying how often archive.org blocks sites but they both complement each other very well.

    https://liberapay.com/archiveis/donate

    https://coindrop.to/archive

    When finding archive.today's Monero donation address just now, I had to use archive.org because donatemonero.org [1] is down.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20260526080016/https://donatemon...

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    • LeoPanthera 48 minutes ago
      Um. You mean the same site that uses its captcha page to DDOS sites the owner doesn't agree with, and was banned from use on Wikipedia because the owner was modifying the archived pages?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#2026_attack_on_G...

      I don't think we should be supporting this random guy, no.

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      • Cider9986 9 minutes ago
        And archive.org removes perfectly legal content from their accessible archives. Nobody's perfect. The guy running archive.today has done a shit ton of good.
      • andai 43 minutes ago
        Well then another guy should provide a technically equivalent and morally superior service ;)
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        • markasoftware 8 minutes ago
          I mean, lots of other archive.* sites exist and do the same thing minus problematic behavior, such as archive.is, archive.oh (though maybe some are operated by the same individual...)
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          • plorg 0 minutes ago
            Are any of those not run by the archive.today guy? That site has like a dozen aliases.
    • qingcharles 48 minutes ago
      Absolutely deserves a donation too. How it keeps running is beyond me, especially as he/she/they keep adding more paywall bypasses on the backend.
  • pm90 1 hour ago
    It was super easy to donate; Im so glad they have a landing page that supports several payment methods and makes it easy to donate. I love the wayback machine, hope everyone pitches in : ).
  • sonicrocketman 1 hour ago
    Just posting this so others can be reminded to donate the archive (no association by me, just a fan).
  • arjie 49 minutes ago
    I do like the Internet Archive but I wish I could retrieve large segments from it myself. It has very aggressive 429s. It would be a nice higher donor tier feature. Maybe it’s not possible to do so and retain 501c3 status? Regardless I have had to start performing personal datahoarding. C’est la vie.
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    • thechairman12 27 minutes ago
      They posted on X about supporting this when someone was spamming them with requests
    • eru 45 minutes ago
      I wonder if they could sell you access to a bittorrent tracker? Officially it would be independent of the donations, just an extra service they sell?
  • totalconfusion 1 hour ago
    Who's paying?
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    • killingtime74 57 minutes ago
      I click through to a few links and cannot find who is doing the matching
    • colesantiago 57 minutes ago
      Let's be honest, almost nobody is donating a significant amount i.e. $100K+ to the Internet Archive that would actually keep them alive.

      Everyone wants to scrape and extract from them 100% for free.

  • qingcharles 49 minutes ago
    Just donated. Appreciate the reminder.
  • akudha 42 minutes ago
    How do they handle AI slop? If they index AI generated articles, it is just not sustainable, right?
  • crewman9 47 minutes ago
    Yeah, _no_

    Shut ClimateGPT down, apologize and then we can talk about donation.

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    • LastTrain 34 minutes ago
      That is Internet Archive Europe, which is independent from Internet Archive
    • eru 42 minutes ago
      Interesting. How is ClimateGPT linked to archive.org, and why do you object to it?
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    • RileyJames 42 minutes ago
      What should archive.org apologise for in this regard?