Archive.today might be dying

[john5433]

I was browsing soyjakwiki.org because it's cool and noticed and a big fat sign

I later browsed there Twitter and noticed they actually had posted something

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In that linked pdf it's an FBI report (I don't quite know how to archive this site's pdfs so sorry for no archive)
This is fucking horrifying, not only because it's my favorite archival site due to it's competency and features, but because of all the data we will loose as it is the second most used archival site. Luckily we can download .zips of them, but we'd have to do it fast and quickly on mass. Kinda weird how archive.today's gonna die before Ghost Archive does, as Ghost Archive recently has felt like a buggy abandoned project in some ways. Hopefully they upload the data somewhere for it to be preserved.
The original image updated and has linked to a news article
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[3MMA]

Here’s another link to some information about this lame crusade & more on site discussion:

Publicar en el tema 'Is the internet archive dying?'

6 de Nov, 2025

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Archive-today-FBI-Demands-Data-from-Provider-Tucows-11066346.html

Spoiler: Article

It is one of the most mysterious and, at the same time, best-known websites on the internet. Archive.today has built up a user base over a period of more than ten years who use the service to access previous snapshots of a web page. So basically like the Wayback Machine of the Internet Archive, only largely free of rules and presumably therefore also anonymous. To the chagrin of the media industry, the service is also often used to bypass paywalls. This is also possible because the...

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[Epic Fail Man]

>USA

From copyright to glowies. Why does that country ruin everything?

 

[Flatline]

What other archivers are available in case .ph falls? Is .today also at risk?

 

[john5433]

What other archivers are available in case .ph falls? Is .today also at risk?

megalodon.jp.
Can archive video, audio, archives in 3k resolution, only problem is the limit is pathetic compared to the alternatives (10 mbs) but it's very fast and efficient.

 

[Flatline]

megalodon.jp.
Can archive video, audio, archives in 3k resolution, only problem is the limit is pathetic compared to the alternatives (10 mbs) but it's very fast and efficient.

Thank you.