Keep Our Servers Running: Your Recurring Donation Goes 3X This September(blog.archive.org)
111 pointsby sonicrocketman2 hours ago9 comments
  • Cider9986an hour ago
    THere's also archive.today who does great user-directed archiving. We don't appreciate this infrastructure some random guy runs enough.

    It's annoying how often archive.org blocks sites but they both complement each other very well.

    https://liberapay.com/archiveis/donate

    https://coindrop.to/archive

    When finding archive.today's Monero donation address just now, I had to use archive.org because donatemonero.org [1] is down.

    https://web.archive.org/web/20260526080016/https://donatemon...

    • LeoPantheraan hour ago
      Um. You mean the same site that uses its captcha page to DDOS sites the owner doesn't agree with, and was banned from use on Wikipedia because the owner was modifying the archived pages?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today#2026_attack_on_G...

      I don't think we should be supporting this random guy, no.

      • andaian hour ago
        Well then another guy should provide a technically equivalent and morally superior service ;)
        • markasoftware16 minutes ago
          I mean, lots of other archive.* sites exist and do the same thing minus problematic behavior, such as archive.is, archive.oh (though maybe some are operated by the same individual...)
          • plorg8 minutes ago
            Are any of those not run by the archive.today guy? That site has like a dozen aliases.
      • Cider998617 minutes ago
        And archive.org removes perfectly legal content from their accessible archives. Nobody's perfect. The guy running archive.today has done a shit ton of good.
    • qingcharlesan hour ago
      Absolutely deserves a donation too. How it keeps running is beyond me, especially as he/she/they keep adding more paywall bypasses on the backend.
  • pm90an hour ago
    It was super easy to donate; Im so glad they have a landing page that supports several payment methods and makes it easy to donate. I love the wayback machine, hope everyone pitches in : ).
  • arjiean hour ago
    I do like the Internet Archive but I wish I could retrieve large segments from it myself. It has very aggressive 429s. It would be a nice higher donor tier feature. Maybe it’s not possible to do so and retain 501c3 status? Regardless I have had to start performing personal datahoarding. C’est la vie.
    • thechairman1235 minutes ago
      They posted on X about supporting this when someone was spamming them with requests
    • eruan hour ago
      I wonder if they could sell you access to a bittorrent tracker? Officially it would be independent of the donations, just an extra service they sell?
  • sonicrocketman2 hours ago
    Just posting this so others can be reminded to donate the archive (no association by me, just a fan).
  • totalconfusionan hour ago
    Who's paying?
    • killingtime74an hour ago
      I click through to a few links and cannot find who is doing the matching
    • colesantiagoan hour ago
      Let's be honest, almost nobody is donating a significant amount i.e. $100K+ to the Internet Archive that would actually keep them alive.

      Everyone wants to scrape and extract from them 100% for free.

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  • qingcharlesan hour ago
    Just donated. Appreciate the reminder.
  • akudhaan hour ago
    How do they handle AI slop? If they index AI generated articles, it is just not sustainable, right?
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  • crewman9an hour ago
    Yeah, _no_

    Shut ClimateGPT down, apologize and then we can talk about donation.

    • LastTrain42 minutes ago
      That is Internet Archive Europe, which is independent from Internet Archive
    • eruan hour ago
      Interesting. How is ClimateGPT linked to archive.org, and why do you object to it?
      • stonogo42 minutes ago
        ClimateGPT is built by Erasmus.AI, which says "Built by Erasmus.AI on behalf of the ClimateGPT Foundation, and supported by the Internet Archive Europe,".

        Brewster Kahle, Internet Archive founder (and board chair), is on the board of Erasmus.AI.

        It does seem weird to rattle the donation box because hosting costs are going up while shooting money at the prime cause of hosting costs going up.

        • LastTrain40 minutes ago
          They are independent organizations with separate funding.
          • crewman912 minutes ago
            then why did the main IA account post about this https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/11721950124572...

            and it's darkly funny how HN downvotes this when every single answer on Mastodon is incredibly negative

          • stonogo13 minutes ago
            Brewster Kahle is on IA Europe's board as well (with Daniel Erasmus, whose baby is Erasmus.AI).

            I'm sure they have separate bank accounts, but let's not pretend these organizations are independent. They're all run by the same little club of friends.

    • RileyJamesan hour ago
      What should archive.org apologise for in this regard?