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Archive Team has just begun the distributed archiving of the Japanese SS Blog, a blog hosting service, which is set to be discontinued on March 31, 2025.

And you can help! There isn't much time left, so as many people running the warrior as possible is needed.

Resources:

  • The wiki page of the project (not much info)
  • The tracker (at the top of the page) has the simplest info on how you can help out
  • The github page offers a docker-based alternative for advanced users, and more info on best practices for this sort of archiving

Why help out?

The web is disappearing all the time, and often a lot of previously easily accessible information is lost to time. These japanese blogs may not be very important to you, but they certainly are to a lot of people, and nobody knows what sort of information is found only here, until they need it.

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[โ€“] archivist@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

There does seem to be some tracker rate limiting, but there certainly is a lot of work to be done.

[โ€“] archivist@lemm.ee 1 points 1 week ago

After a while, blog posts started returning a 403 error, then later 410. Images and javascript files remained downloadable for longer, but the JS files started returning 410 after a while as well. Now, only images are available, and the known ones are slowly being archived as long as they are downloadable.