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== Eksopl's Story of Fuuka and Easymodo ==
[https://twitter.com/Eksopl/status/565840717810249728 Comes from this TwitLonger].
The first Fuuka archive was written and hosted by Anonymous of Russian Federation (AoRF) sometime in 2007. It was just called the /a/rchive back then. He hosted it at http://no-info.no-ip.info on his home connection and it only archived /a/. Eventually he got his ISP's subnet banned from 4chan due to other offences, so the archive stopped working. I asked him for the archive's source code on /a/ and he posted it there, in a RAR embedded in an image. I started an /a/ archive at http://archive.doesntexist.org. AoRF's archived data was gone already, so I started from scratch. Soon afterwards, /jp/ was created and I set up a side archive on the same site, using still the first version of AoRF's software. The software at the time was made to archive only one board.
In Oct 2008, the person who supplied me with the server to run the archive told me he couldn't afford it anymore, so I made arrangements to have the archive hosted with Taro (the person who ran 4scrape, a site that archived images from certain 4chan boards, now gone). That was also when the hostname of the archive changed from archive.doesntexist.org to archive.easymodo.net. archive.doesntexist.org was a DynDNS free domain that didn't allow me to set a CNAME record for it. Taro requested that I pointed to his server using a CNAME, so I used a domain I had acquired but was still unused at the time, easymodo.net. archive.doesntexist.org redirected to archive.easymodo.net and it still did so until May last year, when DynDNS shut down all of their free hostnames.
Meanwhile, sometime in early 2009, AoRF resumed working on the archive code, rewrote a lot of things, added many features (ghost posting was born at this time) and branded it Fuuka. He hosted a temporary version of the archive back at no-info.no-ip for testing. In Mar 2009, I was able to rehost the archive again, so I took it from Taro, who had been providing the hosting for about 5 months now. With the help of AoRF, we got the new version of the archive running (with all the old data intact, of course). The archive.easymodo.net hostname was kept.
archive.easymodo.net kept archiving /a/ and /jp/. Other boards were added and removed as time went by, I don't have any record of which. By Jun 2010, the /a/ archive was placing a strain on my server, so I offered to give the data to someone else for the purpose of continuing the archive. green-oval took it up (green-oval.net was a Fuuka archive that had been running since Feb 2010, to archive /tv/ and /g/ originally). In Jul 2011, green-oval started having troubles and I took the /a/ archive back. By then, the server I was using to host easymodo was better and could handle /a/ again. Text search on /a/ in easymodo was disabled for a long time, though, until I wrote the code to integrate Fuuka with a search engine, Sphinxsearch (AoRF was out of the picture for some time then, I had been maintaining Fuuka's code at that point). I am not sure when exactly, since I only committed those code changes when I stopped hosting the archives altogether, in late Oct 2011.
In late Oct 2011, I announced I was unable to keep hosting the archives and offered to give away the archive data I had gathered to anyone who wanted to continue them. By the time easymodo closed down, it was archiving /a/, /jp/, /m/ and /tg/, as it's still detailed on http://archive.easymodo.net/. Unfortunately, I no longer have that data.
This recollection was mostly pieced together from my memory, the dates were backed up with email records and archive posts. From that point on, the rest is all easily available information, I believe.
I still continued development on Fuuka, first still on Google Code, then on Google Code and Github in parallel, then after a while on Github only. I also wrote Asagi, the dumper that is currently used by all FoolFuuka archivers. The history of all Asagi changes should be available from the commit logs: https://github.com/eksopl/asagi.
== Primary Source from a FoolFuuka Developer ==
== Primary Source from a FoolFuuka Developer ==


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* fuuka = original board dumper with an included front-end written by AoRF and maintained by eksopl afterwards
* fuuka = original board dumper with an included front-end written by AoRF and maintained by eksopl afterwards
* asagi = re-implementation of the fuuka dumper with some significant improvements
* asagi = re-implementation of the fuuka dumper with some significant improvements
f* oolfuuka = re-implementation of the fuuka front-end with some significant improvements and utilizes the asagi dumper for archiving
* foolfuuka = re-implementation of the fuuka front-end with some significant improvements and utilizes the asagi dumper for archiving


there is a fairly significant difference between fuuka archives and asagi/foolfuuka archives
there is a fairly significant difference between fuuka archives and asagi/foolfuuka archives
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also 4chan started to scrub exif data from jpgs back in summer 2014 which results in entirely different file hashes. so reposting images won't restore old thumbnails.
also 4chan started to scrub exif data from jpgs back in summer 2014 which results in entirely different file hashes. so reposting images won't restore old thumbnails.
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    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [07:23:01 PM] <antonizoon> I've created a public listing page to show all known Fuuka Archivers that exist, when they started, and who they inherited from. Just tell me about any inaccuracies or updates. http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=4chan
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [07:23:55 PM] <antonizoon> you can also create an ArchiveTeam account to edit the page yourself
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [07:42:32 PM] <mayhem> antonizoon: https://github.com/MayhemYDG/archives.json
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [07:42:36 PM] <mayhem> might want to take a look at that
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [07:43:34 PM] <mayhem> oh wait you already link to that
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:00:03 PM] <antonizoon> thanks. That is a definitive source for founding dates and past archivers
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:00:21 PM] <antonizoon> I'll look into it more sooner or later
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:00:52 PM] <antonizoon> Also, the plan is to make a very impressive timeline to show what time periods of the boards have been archived, and what is lost
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:00:59 PM] <antonizoon> and who inherited what
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:21:30 PM] <mayhem> also I'm fairly certain easymodo came before green-oval
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:43:32 PM] <antonizoon> mayhem, hmm did it? Easymodo says this: http://archive.easymodo.net/
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:45:19 PM] <mayhem> yeah
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:45:58 PM] <antonizoon> I'll check the internet archive:
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:46:43 PM] <antonizoon> Nope. Easymodo came after, because they inherited the /a/rchive from Green-oval. https://web.archive.org/web/20110715235446/http://green-oval.net/cgi-board.pl/tv/?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:48:01 PM] <mayhem> a foolz Easymodo + Green-Oval + Easymodo
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:48:20 PM] <mayhem> which implying that easymodo was first, then green oval, then easymodo again
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:48:57 PM] <antonizoon> ?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:49:00 PM] <mayhem> which implies*
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:49:06 PM] <antonizoon> Was that on the wikipage?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:49:15 PM] <antonizoon> I thought I fixed it
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:49:26 PM] <antonizoon> which table did you see it in?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:49:40 PM] <mayhem> http://archive.easymodo.net/
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:50:31 PM] <antonizoon> Ok, here's what I think
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:50:46 PM] <antonizoon> This might imply that Easymodo also existed in tandem with Green-oval
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:51:07 PM] <antonizoon> but when Green Oval shut down, it transferred it's /a/rchive to the existing Easymodo
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:51:24 PM] <antonizoon> Easymodo might have started for the purpose of archiving /jp/
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:52:22 PM] <antonizoon> Seems like a decent hypothesis, right? Especially since fuuka was not a friendly beast to work with and learn quickly back then
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:52:29 PM] <antonizoon> I'll check the internet archive
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:52:55 PM] <antonizoon> oh wait, easymodo.net uses robots.txt
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:53:03 PM] <antonizoon> goddamn it.
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:53:08 PM] <antonizoon> we will never know
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:53:31 PM] <antonizoon> However, it is safe to say that Green-oval was archiving at least just /a/ first
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:53:56 PM] <antonizoon> while Easymodo was the first to archive /jp/ (that's kind of what their domain name implies)
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [08:59:31 PM] <mayhem> https://archive.moe/a/thread/51438731/#51439167
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:00:33 PM] <Adm|nymous> you can slap Krade and find out
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:03:16 PM] <mayhem> https://github.com/MayhemYDG/4chan-x/commit/73dadbfe2718b62fa4ec539012f28b3bc925c509
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:04:23 PM] <antonizoon> slap? like, /slap?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:04:35 PM] <antonizoon> Ah yes, the git commits are the best historical record
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:05:24 PM] <mayhem> antonizoon: https://archive.moe/a/search/text/easymodo/order/asc/
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:05:26 PM] <mayhem> https://archive.moe/a/search/text/%22green%20oval%20net%22/order/asc/
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:05:28 PM] <mayhem> there you go
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:05:51 PM] <mayhem> first link to easymodo on 10 oct 2008 for the /a/ archive
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:06:07 PM] <mayhem> and 3rd march 20�10� for green-oval
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:06:13 PM] <antonizoon> interesting
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:06:20 PM] <mayhem> https://archive.moe/a/thread/36628143/#36628143
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:06:24 PM] <mayhem> told ya
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:06:40 PM] <mayhem> yeah it's a good idea to check the archives sometimes :^)
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:06:42 PM] <antonizoon> However, we wouldn't have this confusion if Easymodo had decided not to use robots.txt
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:06:55 PM] <mayhem> that's what the archives are for
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:07:04 PM] <antonizoon> because there are no Wayback Machine snapshots to give us any more information
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:07:28 PM] <antonizoon> So, let's retrace the history of the Fuuka script, way back
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:07:29 PM] <antonizoon> let
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:07:44 PM] <antonizoon> 's make a good effort to write how it spread and which sites used it
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:07:59 PM] <mayhem> Adm|nymous: https://archive.moe/a/search/order/asc/
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:08:00 PM] <mayhem> wtf
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:08:12 PM] <antonizoon> starts at 1970 due to bad dates
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:08:14 PM] <Adm|nymous> we got it like that iirc
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:08:16 PM] <mayhem> https://archive.moe/a/thread/9890356/#9890364
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:08:28 PM] <mayhem> shouldn't you order by post number?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:08:33 PM] <antonizoon> 1970 is the unix epoch
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:08:38 PM] <mayhem> I know
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:08:56 PM] <antonizoon> well, "oldest first" works on the dates provided
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:08:58 PM] <Adm|nymous> i think we did timestamp cause of global search
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:09:07 PM] <antonizoon> yeah, that makes sense
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:09:25 PM] <mayhem> why use timestamps when you can use post numbers
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:09:51 PM] <antonizoon> because you can't really search across boards then, right?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:10:16 PM] <antonizoon> I mean, GETs are different on each board, right?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:10:31 PM] <mayhem> oh right
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:11:07 PM] <antonizoon> Ok, tell me all about Easymodo
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:11:14 PM] <antonizoon> I'll write it down on the wikipage
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:11:34 PM] <mayhem> try emailing krade or something
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:11:38 PM] <antonizoon> krade?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:11:55 PM] <mayhem> that's eksopl
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:12:51 PM] <antonizoon> hmm. He's still around? which email would work?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:12:57 PM] <antonizoon> or she?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:12:58 PM] <antonizoon> dunno
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:13:44 PM] <antonizoon> http://wakaba.c3.cx/soc/kareha.pl/1320988628/
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:13:55 PM] <antonizoon> hmmm
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:14:21 PM] <antonizoon> >he has a brain tumour, which is why he closed down the archive. Contacting him may be difficult.
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:14:49 PM] <antonizoon> anyway, eksopl@gmail.com , right? or "krade" has a new email?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:14:58 PM] <mayhem> everything written on the internet is true
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:15:04 PM] <mayhem> should be the same
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:15:13 PM] <mayhem> that's the one he uses in git at least
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:15:25 PM] <antonizoon> well ok, I'll do that
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:15:54 PM] <antonizoon> What do you know about Easymodo though? Just for now
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:16:03 PM] <mayhem> https://twitter.com/Eksopl/status/565467368370237441
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:16:12 PM] <mayhem> it was too long ago
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:16:17 PM] <mayhem> can't remember much
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:16:34 PM] <mayhem> and I wasn't that much involved in the process of archivers/4chan X
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:18:27 PM] <antonizoon> well, alright.
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:18:39 PM] <antonizoon> I'll tweet him about it. Also, feel free to correct any inaccuracies
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:18:46 PM] <antonizoon> most of all, anyone have the Easymodo archives?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:19:05 PM] <mayhem> yeah, archive.moe
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:19:24 PM] <antonizoon> We should upload them to the Interent Archive, they can easily hold a 252GB upload without a sweat
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:19:34 PM] <antonizoon> like we did for the Heinessen /mlp/ full image archive
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:19:48 PM] <mayhem> https://archive.moe/ it's right there :^)
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:22:30 PM] <antonizoon> No, no, I meant the torrents used to recover archive.moe when the thumbnails got screwed up
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:22:37 PM] <antonizoon> which were created for Foolz
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:22:46 PM] <antonizoon> back in 2012 or so
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:23:18 PM] <antonizoon> https://twitter.com/archivemoe/status/514106163210645504
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:23:38 PM] <mayhem> doubt you can find them
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:25:24 PM] <antonizoon> yeah, I guess so. The next time a backup transfer happens, feel free to go to http://archive.org/upload and dump however many gigabytes you can provide for future generations
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:26:34 PM] <antonizoon> just like we did for this: https://archive.org/details/archive.heinessen.com-torrent
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:27:07 PM] <mayhem> either way foolz imported everything from easymodo
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:27:16 PM] <mayhem> and archive.moe imported everything from foolz
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:28:28 PM] <antonizoon> yup. It's supported by good facts
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:29:07 PM] <antonizoon> and that's how Internet Anthropology works. Sifting through the ruins of civilization past. Making judgements from the trash left behind. Archeology... is the science of trash
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:30:21 PM] <antonizoon> I guess I'll have to add more "maybes" in this wikipage. Well, thanks for the information. Feel free to edit the wikipage as you wish.
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:34:18 PM] <mayhem> antonizoon: https://twitter.com/ArchiveMoe/status/512991440608043009
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:34:26 PM] <mayhem> you could check twitter for more info too
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:35:10 PM] Join asianaussie (~aa@dazzling.every.stage) has joined this channel.
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:35:10 PM] Mode Saber gives channel operator privileges to asianaussie.
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:36:01 PM] <antonizoon> thanks, a good place for more sources
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:36:58 PM] <mayhem> you might want to ask on archive.moe's irc for more info
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:37:43 PM] <antonizoon> ah, what is the channel?
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:38:35 PM] <mayhem> https://archive.moe/_/articles/irc/
    [Wednesday, February 11, 2015] [09:39:27 PM] <antonizoon> thanks
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== Lost archive.moe data May - Oct? ==
What happened to the good samaritan who was going to upload these files from his private archive?
[[User:Allytogood|Allytogood]] ([[User talk:Allytogood|talk]]) 23:32, 6 March 2016 (EST)
:: Unfortunately while uploading his drive started to fail right then and there. He only uploaded /vp/ before he had to stop and rescue what he could. [[User:Antonizoon|Antonizoon]] ([[User talk:Antonizoon|talk]]) 23:07, 8 March 2016 (EST)
Darn that sucks. Well, thanks! [[User:Allytogood|Allytogood]] ([[User talk:Allytogood|talk]]) 18:26, 10 March 2016 (EST)
== Archive of pre-foolz downfall /v/? ==
So since 4ch.be is no more. Does anyone know of an archive that hosts all the pre-downfall content from foolz?
arch.b4k.co only hosts from October 4 onward.
Fireden.net only hosts starting from mid-January.
desustorage doesn't host /v/ period.
[[User:Allytogood|Allytogood]] ([[User talk:Allytogood|talk]]) 12:20, 25 March 2016 (EDT)
https://foolz.fireden.net/v/ holds the content from before Archive.moe shut down, so that's what you're looking for. Those sites work to keep archiving /v/ where they left off. If you'd like to discuss with the admins, jump in at irc.rizon.net #bibanon and ask for Bui (runs fgts.jp and ran 4ch.be), or atc (runs Desustorage and a secret Archive of Last Resort). [[User:Antonizoon|Antonizoon]] ([[User talk:Antonizoon|talk]]) 18:15, 25 March 2016 (EDT)
It doesn't archive content before Oct. Try to search for something older than that. Thanks for the tip though. [[User:Allytogood|Allytogood]] ([[User talk:Allytogood|talk]]) 17:26, 26 March 2016 (EDT)
== Found another archive. Dedicated to /b/. (NSFW warning) ==
The site is [http://randomarchive.com/ randomarchive.com]. Full-size images are uploaded to Imgur. It only saves thumbnails of WEBMs, though. It is not Fukka based, and apparently fully custom. It self-proclaims itself "one of the largest /b/ archives" although I haven't browsed it enough to verify that claim. Looks to be much too big to just throw into ArchiveBot. Sitemaster can be contacted at [mailto:wtabusse@gmail.com wtabusse@gmail.com]. If someone wants to fill out the template and add it to the page, I would appreciate it.
== I (possibly) found full images for /vg/ prior to August 2019. ==
In the section talking about Fireden, it says that Archived.moe has only remaining copy of /vg/ albeit with thumbnails only after Fireden stopped archiving. However, I found that a site called "yuki.la" seems to have the full images prior to August 2019. If you go to basically any point prior to August, it has [full images https://yuki.la/vg/page/#15700] for every post. This site also seems to be not referenced anywhere for some reason. [[User:JRCentral|JRCentral]] (User talk:JRCentral|talk]]) 23:36, 12 August 2020 (EDT)
== Yuki.la ==
Yuki.la is or possibly was an archiver for 4chan that did all boards. As of me saying this, it is inactive. It may return, however the outage has lasted significantly longer than I'd like.
--[[User:SkynetPR|SkynetPR]] ([[User talk:SkynetPR|talk]]) 02:47, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
== Possible looming permanent outage of 1d4chan. This is... extremely alarming. ==
1d4chan is an extremely comprehensive /tg/ wiki that held a not inconsiderable amount of information, including famous /tg/ figures and traditions.
It went down in the past, but now has gone down for quite a long while. [[The original frontpage|https://1d4chan.org]] now leads to a 502 bad gateway. As of today, I have been lead to believe the site has been out intermittently for more than two months, as seen here, and quickly checking reddit, it seems its fallen for two days now.

Revision as of 03:13, 31 March 2021

Eksopl's Story of Fuuka and Easymodo

Comes from this TwitLonger.

The first Fuuka archive was written and hosted by Anonymous of Russian Federation (AoRF) sometime in 2007. It was just called the /a/rchive back then. He hosted it at http://no-info.no-ip.info on his home connection and it only archived /a/. Eventually he got his ISP's subnet banned from 4chan due to other offences, so the archive stopped working. I asked him for the archive's source code on /a/ and he posted it there, in a RAR embedded in an image. I started an /a/ archive at http://archive.doesntexist.org. AoRF's archived data was gone already, so I started from scratch. Soon afterwards, /jp/ was created and I set up a side archive on the same site, using still the first version of AoRF's software. The software at the time was made to archive only one board.

In Oct 2008, the person who supplied me with the server to run the archive told me he couldn't afford it anymore, so I made arrangements to have the archive hosted with Taro (the person who ran 4scrape, a site that archived images from certain 4chan boards, now gone). That was also when the hostname of the archive changed from archive.doesntexist.org to archive.easymodo.net. archive.doesntexist.org was a DynDNS free domain that didn't allow me to set a CNAME record for it. Taro requested that I pointed to his server using a CNAME, so I used a domain I had acquired but was still unused at the time, easymodo.net. archive.doesntexist.org redirected to archive.easymodo.net and it still did so until May last year, when DynDNS shut down all of their free hostnames.

Meanwhile, sometime in early 2009, AoRF resumed working on the archive code, rewrote a lot of things, added many features (ghost posting was born at this time) and branded it Fuuka. He hosted a temporary version of the archive back at no-info.no-ip for testing. In Mar 2009, I was able to rehost the archive again, so I took it from Taro, who had been providing the hosting for about 5 months now. With the help of AoRF, we got the new version of the archive running (with all the old data intact, of course). The archive.easymodo.net hostname was kept.

archive.easymodo.net kept archiving /a/ and /jp/. Other boards were added and removed as time went by, I don't have any record of which. By Jun 2010, the /a/ archive was placing a strain on my server, so I offered to give the data to someone else for the purpose of continuing the archive. green-oval took it up (green-oval.net was a Fuuka archive that had been running since Feb 2010, to archive /tv/ and /g/ originally). In Jul 2011, green-oval started having troubles and I took the /a/ archive back. By then, the server I was using to host easymodo was better and could handle /a/ again. Text search on /a/ in easymodo was disabled for a long time, though, until I wrote the code to integrate Fuuka with a search engine, Sphinxsearch (AoRF was out of the picture for some time then, I had been maintaining Fuuka's code at that point). I am not sure when exactly, since I only committed those code changes when I stopped hosting the archives altogether, in late Oct 2011.

In late Oct 2011, I announced I was unable to keep hosting the archives and offered to give away the archive data I had gathered to anyone who wanted to continue them. By the time easymodo closed down, it was archiving /a/, /jp/, /m/ and /tg/, as it's still detailed on http://archive.easymodo.net/. Unfortunately, I no longer have that data.

This recollection was mostly pieced together from my memory, the dates were backed up with email records and archive posts. From that point on, the rest is all easily available information, I believe.

I still continued development on Fuuka, first still on Google Code, then on Google Code and Github in parallel, then after a while on Github only. I also wrote Asagi, the dumper that is currently used by all FoolFuuka archivers. The history of all Asagi changes should be available from the commit logs: https://github.com/eksopl/asagi.

Primary Source from a FoolFuuka Developer

Adm|nymous gave us some info about the history of Fuuka, FoolFuuka, and the Fuuka Archivers.

archiving software

  • fuuka = original board dumper with an included front-end written by AoRF and maintained by eksopl afterwards
  • asagi = re-implementation of the fuuka dumper with some significant improvements
  • foolfuuka = re-implementation of the fuuka front-end with some significant improvements and utilizes the asagi dumper for archiving

there is a fairly significant difference between fuuka archives and asagi/foolfuuka archives

archive.moe

we don't consider it as a spin-off from the foolz archive since management is made up of an entirely new team that contacted us a few months ago to obtain the data/etc. we only provide the occasional software support and updates now. also, i'm pretty sure they don't purge full images and continue to increase their storage capacity. the /mlp/ full image dump is most likely a one-time deal since a few people asked for them when heinessen went down and has been merged into their storage server before they made the tarball iirc.

  • /c/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us <- archive.thedarkcave.org
  • /co/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us
  • /g/ = archive.moe <- archive.installgentoo.net (frozen import)
  • /h/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us
  • /i/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us
  • /mlp/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us
  • /po/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us <- archive.thedarkcave.org
  • /r9k/ = archive.moe <- archive.heinessen.com
  • /s4s/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us
  • /sci/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us <- archive.installgentoo.net <- green-oval.net/gentooman
  • /tv/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us <- archive.installgentoo.net <- green-oval.net/gentooman
  • /u/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us

installgentoo.net

i'm not sure about /pol/ and /k/, but we (foolz) got /tv/ from them. also the archive actually died in feb 2014 due to issues the admin was having with his hosting provider and dumps were provided at that time.

archive.heinessen.com

the admin provided dumps for /fit/, /r9k/, /mlp/, and /k/. the /fit/ dump was created much later and given to only a few people iirc. archive.moe did not inherit heinessen's /mlp/ archive. they inherited all of the data from us (foolz archive) since we had it archived from the very beginning.

archive.thedarkcave.org

it archived /c/, /int/, /out/, and /po/. foolz obtained the data in june 2014.

archive.foolz.us

the scanlation team never depended on easymodo's /a/ archive to coordinate anything and used irc instead. woxxy only picked it up because he browsed/used it for other things. also, the scanlation team doesnt really have anything to do with the development team (foolcode).

the data lost didn't occur during the ownership/data transfer phase but much later. it happened a few weeks after all data had been transferred to the archive.moe's servers. you should contact Hasumi for more details if want. she should also be able to provide you with more detailed information bout the thumbnails restored since a few of those info look wrong.

  • /c/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us <- archive.thedarkcave.org
  • /co/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us
  • /int/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us <- archive.thedarkcave.org
  • /mlp/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us (from the beginning)
  • /out/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us <- archive.thedarkcave.org
  • /po/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us <- archive.thedarkcave.org
  • /sci/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us <- archive.installgentoo.net <- green-oval.net/gentooman
  • /tv/ = archive.moe <- foolz.us <- archive.installgentoo.net <- green-oval.net/gentooman

also 4chan started to scrub exif data from jpgs back in summer 2014 which results in entirely different file hashes. so reposting images won't restore old thumbnails.


Lost archive.moe data May - Oct?

What happened to the good samaritan who was going to upload these files from his private archive? Allytogood (talk) 23:32, 6 March 2016 (EST)

Unfortunately while uploading his drive started to fail right then and there. He only uploaded /vp/ before he had to stop and rescue what he could. Antonizoon (talk) 23:07, 8 March 2016 (EST)


Darn that sucks. Well, thanks! Allytogood (talk) 18:26, 10 March 2016 (EST)

Archive of pre-foolz downfall /v/?

So since 4ch.be is no more. Does anyone know of an archive that hosts all the pre-downfall content from foolz?

arch.b4k.co only hosts from October 4 onward. Fireden.net only hosts starting from mid-January. desustorage doesn't host /v/ period. Allytogood (talk) 12:20, 25 March 2016 (EDT)

https://foolz.fireden.net/v/ holds the content from before Archive.moe shut down, so that's what you're looking for. Those sites work to keep archiving /v/ where they left off. If you'd like to discuss with the admins, jump in at irc.rizon.net #bibanon and ask for Bui (runs fgts.jp and ran 4ch.be), or atc (runs Desustorage and a secret Archive of Last Resort). Antonizoon (talk) 18:15, 25 March 2016 (EDT)

It doesn't archive content before Oct. Try to search for something older than that. Thanks for the tip though. Allytogood (talk) 17:26, 26 March 2016 (EDT)

Found another archive. Dedicated to /b/. (NSFW warning)

The site is randomarchive.com. Full-size images are uploaded to Imgur. It only saves thumbnails of WEBMs, though. It is not Fukka based, and apparently fully custom. It self-proclaims itself "one of the largest /b/ archives" although I haven't browsed it enough to verify that claim. Looks to be much too big to just throw into ArchiveBot. Sitemaster can be contacted at wtabusse@gmail.com. If someone wants to fill out the template and add it to the page, I would appreciate it.

I (possibly) found full images for /vg/ prior to August 2019.

In the section talking about Fireden, it says that Archived.moe has only remaining copy of /vg/ albeit with thumbnails only after Fireden stopped archiving. However, I found that a site called "yuki.la" seems to have the full images prior to August 2019. If you go to basically any point prior to August, it has [full images https://yuki.la/vg/page/#15700] for every post. This site also seems to be not referenced anywhere for some reason. JRCentral (User talk:JRCentral|talk]]) 23:36, 12 August 2020 (EDT)

Yuki.la

Yuki.la is or possibly was an archiver for 4chan that did all boards. As of me saying this, it is inactive. It may return, however the outage has lasted significantly longer than I'd like.

--SkynetPR (talk) 02:47, 29 March 2021 (UTC)

Possible looming permanent outage of 1d4chan. This is... extremely alarming.

1d4chan is an extremely comprehensive /tg/ wiki that held a not inconsiderable amount of information, including famous /tg/ figures and traditions.

It went down in the past, but now has gone down for quite a long while. https://1d4chan.org now leads to a 502 bad gateway. As of today, I have been lead to believe the site has been out intermittently for more than two months, as seen here, and quickly checking reddit, it seems its fallen for two days now.