App.net

App.net
URL	https://app.net
Status	Offline
Archiving status	Partially saved
Archiving type	Unknown
Project source	appnet-grab
Project tracker	appnet
IRC channel	#archiveteam-bs (on hackint) (formerly #crapp.net (on EFnet))
Data[how to use]	archiveteam_appnet

App.net is an ad-free online social networking service and microblogging service which enables its users to write messages of up to 256 characters.

It provides its own frontend, (Alpha), but also has third party frontends that serve the same backend.

On 2017/01/12, App.net announced that they were shutting down on 2017/03/14.[1]

How can I help?

Running a Warrior

You can start up a Warrior and there select App.net. (If you don't really care what you are archiving, select ArchiveTeam's Choice instead, as at some points ArchiveTeam may prioritize another project.)

Keep your number of threads to 4 or less. App.net applies rate limiting if you go too fast. These show up as 429 errors in the log.

Running the script manually

If you use Linux and you're a bit familiar with it, you can try running the script directly.

The instructions can be found at github.com/ArchiveTeam/appnet-grab.

Some additional information

Don't forget to replace YOURNICKHERE with your nickname. The number after --concurrent determines how many threads run at the same time. You can increase this number if your resources (RAM, CPU, bandwidth) are sufficient. However, if you constantly see messages about rate limiting, there is no need to increase the concurrency. If you want to stop the script, please do it gracefully if possible. To do so, create an empty file named STOP in the folder of the script (terminal command: touch STOP). The script finishes the current item(s) and stops only after that. (If you kill the script immediately, the items get broken, and they will need to be reassigned to another user.) – Before starting the script again, don't forget to remove the STOP file. If you see "Project code is out of date", kill the script, go to its folder (cd yahooanswers-grab) and issue git pull https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/yahooanswers-grab. After the updating has finished, re-launch the script.

Donating to the Internet Archive

Content downloaded by the ArchiveTeam will be uploaded to the Internet Archive, where it will be stored and be available – hopefully – forever. However, storing it costs thousands of dollars in the long run. So, if you can afford, please consider donating to the Internet Archive, so that this piece of history can be kept for us all. http://archive.org/donate

Do you like our cause?

If you want to help in other projects, want to learn more about ArchiveTeam, or even help in development in general, navigate to the Main Page of this wiki, from there you can reach a lot of information. The Team consists of volunteers working on the projects in their free time, so helping hands (and resources) are always welcome.