

Ask HN: Twitter/Posterous - The Archive Team needs more time to save 1.3M blogs - jmathai

TL;DR<p>Posterous is shutting down in a week and the Archive Team needs more time else 1.3 million blogs will essentially disappear.<p>--<p>I've been following an exchange between Jason Scott (Archive Team / Internet Archive) and Sachin Agarwal (Posterous) [1].<p>It appears that Posterous gave the Archive Team some dedicated servers to hit but it wasn't sufficient to download the amount that's going to be deleted.<p>I don't know all of the details but saving content to a historical archive is invaluable. Offering the ability for users to download their content is great but it serves a very different purpose than what the Archive Team and Internet Archive does.<p>Additionally, it's certain that much of the content will disappear because users didn't receive the shutdown email, 30 days wasn't long enough or simply didn't bother to do anything. The public content there is still valuable.<p>[1] https://twitter.com/agarwal/status/327153883237453825
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ddorian43
Everyone who wants to help can install the Archive Team Warrior.

The ArchiveTeam Warrior is a virtual archiving appliance. You can run it to
help with the ArchiveTeam archiving efforts.

<http://archive.org/details/archiveteam-warrior>

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nucleardog
Installed and running. It's a quick download. If you already have some sort of
VM software installed, getting it running is pretty painless.

(VMware said it wasn't compatible, but gave me the option to retry import with
relaxed restrictions. I had to move the second (scratch) disk from Secondary-
Slave to Secondary-Master, but it came up no problem after that.)

Once it was running, it's just a simple web interface you can use to select
what project you want to participate in.

All in, it was about a five minute affair.

You can track the current progress of the Posterous download at
<[http://tracker.archiveteam.org/posterous/>](http://tracker.archiveteam.org/posterous/>).

Currently they have 4,846,523 items done, and 1,277,126 to go. They need all
the help they can get.

Thanks for letting me know about this, ddorian43. I've got a reasonably speedy
connection, lots of hard-drive space, and definitely don't mind helping out.

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hub_
Simply put, former Posterous and Twitter are being douchey.

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bochoh
TL;DR Twitter = Evil

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lsiebert
Seems like someone could still donate server time for charity pr.

