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Warrior based projects

• Blingee: >130 million images and 9 years of user content will be deleted on August 25, 2015. IRC Channel #tragedee (on hackint).
• Last.fm: Switching codebases in the first two weeks of April, some user-generated content might be lost. IRC Channel #lastchance.fm (on hackint).
• SourceForge: Old, ad supported, adware supported. IRC Channel #coldstorage (on hackint).
• URLTeam: URL shorteners were a fucking awful idea. IRC Channel #urlteam (on hackint).
• Halo: Downloading all the read-only data from Halo. IRC Channel #yolohalo (on hackint). (Rate-limited, generally has enough volunteers.)
• Blogger: Google was to restrict public access to adult blogs, but they backed down. We're backing up Blogger anyway. IRC Channel #frogger (on hackint). (Content grab coming soon.)

Help us: ☞ Download and run your warrior ☜.
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Combined project activity graphs here.

Manual projects

• AOL: Climbing into the decaying walled garden. IRC Channel #aohell (on hackint)
• ArchiveBot: For those with lots of disk space, bandwidth and long-term commitment. IRC Channel #archivebot (on hackint).
• Audit 2014: It's time to verify our shit. IRC Channel #auditteam (on hackint).
• FTP: Download all the FTP sites! IRC Channel #effteepee (on hackint).
• Froogle: Let's do a census of all of Google's products. IRC Channel #froogle (on hackint).
• INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK: How do we archive an archive? IRC Channel #internetarchive.bak (on hackint).
• ISP Hosting: Finding ISP web hosting services before the Grim Reaper finds them. IRC Channel #webroasting (on hackint).
• Project Newsletter: Archiving e-newsletters, currently in development. IRC Channel #projectnewsletter (on hackint).
• Valhalla: Where to store what even the Internet Archive doesn't have space for? IRC Channel #huntinggrounds (on hackint).
• WikiTeam: permanent effort, everyone can help (you choose the size of your downloads). IRC Channel #wikiteam (on hackint).
• Woohoo: Yahoo is untrustworthy, let's do a census of all their products. IRC Channel #woohoo (on hackint).

Upcoming projects

• RadioShack: RadioShack is going bankrupt. IRC Channel #unshackled (on hackint).
• Comcast Personal Web Pages: Comcast's web hosting, shutting down October 8, 2015. IRC Channel #comclose (on hackint).
• Club Nintendo: Ran out of lives. Game over for North America on July 30, 2015, September 30, 2015 for Europe and Japan. IRC Channel #clubnintendont (on hackint).
• Google Code: Google likes Github more. Shutting down on January 26, 2016. IRC Channel #googlecodeblue (on hackint).
• Panoramio: Google is migrating photos only (no metadata!) to Maps. IRC Channel #paranormio (on hackint).
• Orkut: Orkut got kut on September 30, 2014. It lives on as a public archive. IRC Channel #throatkut (on hackint).
• Picasa Web Albums: Main page redirecting to Google Plus, future uncertain. IRC Channel #picasso (on hackint).
• Blipfoto: Went into liquidation on March 11, 2015, future uncertain. Acquired on March 25, 2015, we're still grabbing it anyway. IRC Channel #fotofinish (on hackint).
• The Pirate Bay: Recently came back up, grabbing an archive for sanity's sake. IRC Channel #yarharfiddlededee (on hackint).
• Ownlog: Ownlog is losing popularity and support from its owners. IRC Channel #pwnlog (on hackint).

Recently finished

• Blip.tv: Disney/Maker Studios is killing Blip on August 20, 2015. IRC Channel #blooper.tv (on hackint).
• Skillfeed: Shutterstock is closing skillfeed.com on September 30, 2015. Grabbing instructional videos and metadata. IRC Channel #skillessfeed (on hackint)

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