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

 (blog.archive.org)

98 points | by sonicrocketman 1 hour ago

9 comments

  • Cider9986 53 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 45 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 6 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 39 minutes ago
        Well then another guy should provide a technically equivalent and morally superior service ;)
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        • markasoftware 5 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...)
    • qingcharles 45 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 57 minutes 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 46 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 23 minutes ago
      They posted on X about supporting this when someone was spamming them with requests
    • eru 42 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?
  • qingcharles 46 minutes ago
    Just donated. Appreciate the reminder.
  • totalconfusion 57 minutes ago
    Who's paying?
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    • killingtime74 54 minutes ago
      I click through to a few links and cannot find who is doing the matching
    • colesantiago 53 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.

  • akudha 38 minutes ago
    How do they handle AI slop? If they index AI generated articles, it is just not sustainable, right?
  • crewman9 43 minutes ago
    Yeah, _no_

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

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    • LastTrain 31 minutes ago
      That is Internet Archive Europe, which is independent from Internet Archive
    • eru 39 minutes ago
      Interesting. How is ClimateGPT linked to archive.org, and why do you object to it?
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    • RileyJames 38 minutes ago
      What should archive.org apologise for in this regard?