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Warrior-based projects

• Yahoo! Groups: Years of internet threads, soon to go private-only. IRC Channel #yahoosucks (on hackint)
• URLTeam: URL shorteners were a fucking awful idea. IRC Channel #urlteam (on hackint).

Scripts only

• NewsGrabber: Saving all news articles. Help with server power or by finding more news sites. IRC Channel #newsgrabber (on hackint).

Manual projects

• Yahoogroups-joiner Filling out captchas to archive Yahoo Groups. IRC Channel #yahoosucks (on hackint).
• ArchiveBot: For those with lots of disk space, bandwidth and long-term commitment. IRC Channel #archivebot (on hackint).
• WikiTeam: Saving wikis dumps (XML). And their external links for the Wayback Machine (WARC) as well as exporting MediaWiki databases. Permanent effort, everyone can help (you choose the size of your downloads). IRC Channel #wikiteam (on hackint).
• MP3.com: Digging through the WayBack Machine's archives to build a database of all the DAM CDs made available through the site.

Active Projects Not Yet Ingesting

• Reddit: Banning communities that generate bad PR for Reddit Inc. IRC Channel #shreddit (on hackint).

Proposed projects

• Plays.tv: Stopping.tv on 2019-12-15. IRC Channel #stops.tv (on hackint).
• YouTube: Making playlists of liked videos private on 2019-12-05. IRC Channel #down-the-tube (on hackint).
• Kinja: Deleting all user pages, maybe? IRC Channel #gokinjagokinjago (on hackint).
• Twitter: Deleting inactive accounts 2019-12-11 sometime. IRC Channel #twitterdead (on hackint).
• GitHub: Embraced-uh, I mean, bought by Microsoft. IRC Channel #getgit (on hackint).
• Google Fusion Tables: Shutting down on 2019-12-3. IRC Channel TBD.
• Imgur: Image hoster decided that using it for hosting images is not permitted. IRC Channel #imgone (on hackint).
• JamiiForums: the Tanzanian government would like this gone. IRC Channel #jammedforums (on hackint).
• LiveJournal: Very old, widely regarded as in decline, and has a lot of important stuff buried in it. IRC Channel #recordedjournal (on hackint).
• Ownlog: Ownlog is losing popularity and support from its owners. IRC Channel #pwnlog (on hackint).
• The Pirate Bay: Recently came back up, grabbing an archive for sanity's sake. IRC Channel #yarharfiddlededee (on hackint).
• Valhalla: Where to store what even the Internet Archive doesn't have space for? IRC Channel #huntinggrounds (on hackint).

Recently finished projects

• Drawr: Doodle repository getting sharpied out on December 2nd (JST?). IRC Channel #drawrnomore (on hackint).
• Gfycat: Deleting old anonymous uploads on or after 2019-11-18. IRC Channel #deadcat (on hackint).

Hiatus / Missed the Mark

• Angelfire: Angelfire is a web hosting service that contains big chunks of early WWW history and has no proper backup. IRC Channel #angelonfire (on hackint).
• Audit 2014: It's time to verify our shit. IRC Channel #auditteam (on hackint). THIS PROJECT IS ON HIATUS AND WILL BE RETURNED TO AS AUDIT2018.
• Flickr: Yahoo! SmugMug decided to kill it after finding Yahoo!'s plans to do so before they were bought by Verizon. IRC Channel #flickrfckr (on hackint).
• Freeml: Japanese mailing list provider is sending its final email 2019-12-02. IRC Channel #fml (on hackint).
• FTP: Help us find and download all FTP sites! IRC Channel #effteepee (on hackint).
• Google Groups: "Gone within a year" (SketchCow, 2016-06-07).
• Google News Archive: Let's store all newspapers at Google, WCGW? IRC Channel #papersplease (on hackint).
• DevPort: This portfolio SaaS provider has reportedly been having infrastructure issues, and removed their social media accounts. Possible impending shutdown.
• INTERNETARCHIVE.BAK: Grab a slice of the big cake of The 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).
• Quizlet: Flashcards and other learning tools IRC Channel #quizletusin (on hackint).
• Tumblr: Yahoo! considered killing it, now Yahoo has been acquired and Verizon declared war on NSFW blogs. IRC Channel #tumbledown (on hackint).
• yuku: Lately yuku is very unstable and hosting thousands of forums. Project currently paused. IRC Channel #archiveteam (on hackint).

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