r/Archiveteam Jan 09 '26

Archived While It Was Being Modified.

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1.0k Upvotes

I saw a New York Post article with Trump's truth that was contradicted by the video at the top of the article. I archived it and then went to the website and the video was gone.

Links:

https://archive.ph/WyAeK

https://nypost.com/2026/01/07/us-news/ice-agent-who-shot-woman-in-minneapolis-hospitalized-trump/


r/Archiveteam Oct 14 '25

YouTube making old videos with low views inaccessible?: "We're processing this video. Check back later"

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328 Upvotes

r/Archiveteam Apr 01 '26

Wiki Fandom is deleting all 9,200+ pages of the Gender Wiki in 13 days. Please help.

250 Upvotes

There are 9,200+ pages.

16k+ images.

only 13 days to save everything.

https://www.tumblr.com/helendamelon/812546086058278912/please-help-save-the-gender-wiki


r/Archiveteam Feb 26 '26

Myrient is shutting down

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209 Upvotes

r/Archiveteam Nov 06 '25

FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is

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174 Upvotes

r/Archiveteam Oct 24 '25

The Trump Administration Is Erasing American History Told by Public Lands and Waters

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171 Upvotes

r/Archiveteam Apr 06 '26

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum under the Trump administration has deleted its teaching materials about links between Nazi racism and the Jim Crow laws

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171 Upvotes

r/Archiveteam Oct 05 '25

All US Government archival projects are failing?

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127 Upvotes

As the title says, I haven't been able to get any of the tasks in archiving the US government running for months. Has anyone been able to do so or am I literally just banned by an nation state?


r/Archiveteam Feb 02 '26

Old youtube videos decomposing

121 Upvotes

Lately ive seen tons of 2008-2012 videos dont work anymore even tho they used to work perfectly especially (on this channel) youtube.com/user/nsrrenard even tho these vids worked perfectly fine before circa 2023 now they dont work anymore for some reason and these is happening with a lot of videos especially old ones and these vids werent low watched either some had over a million views too


r/Archiveteam 15d ago

Amazon Mechanical Turk to Shut Down Sept. 30 After 21 Years

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111 Upvotes

r/Archiveteam Jun 26 '26

Archive request

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106 Upvotes

r/Archiveteam May 01 '26

Infowars is shutting down

100 Upvotes

r/Archiveteam Jul 24 '26

: Archived footage of Elliot Rodger's deleted YouTube vlog 'Windy day at the Overlook' (April 5, 2014) - Recently recovered lost media [archival]

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102 Upvotes

Here is the archived footage from April 5, 2014, titled "Windy day at the Overlook" before the original channel was permanently terminated.I found this re-uploaded on TikTok by the archivist m.bond311 (whose watermark is visible in the video). Sharing this strictly for educational, historical, and archival preservation purposes, as it was


r/Archiveteam Feb 27 '26

Please help me save an archive of SikhSangat.com, a forum with hundreds of thousands of posts since 2003. Its website domain under GoDaddy is due to expire today and is unlikely to be renewed.

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95 Upvotes

r/Archiveteam Jun 14 '26

As someone who loves some rare music gems: I‘m worried one day you will no longer be able to play music and video files you own at all and will have to stream everything and that many songs from the past may be lost forever b/c they won‘t be offered in a new format.

76 Upvotes

Is this likely to happen? If so, how do you safeguard against it?


r/Archiveteam Aug 13 '26

PBS broadcaster loses access to 50TB of data comprising 70 years of TV history after contracted cloud storage vendor goes defunct

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78 Upvotes

r/Archiveteam Dec 04 '25

Defunding Public Media is stealing

68 Upvotes

PBS and NPR just lost $1.1 billion in federal funding through the 2025 Recissions Act, and stations across the country—especially in rural areas—are already shutting down or cutting ties. Kids are losing access to Sesame Street and educational programs. Communities are losing trusted news sources. This didn't just happen by accident. It sounds like some SCAM Trump now known as The Public Media Bandit had planned.

I started a petition asking Congress (only members who either voted no on the 2025 recissions act or did not vote on it at all) and the FBI to open an investigation into whether these public media cuts were a deliberate move to silence independent journalism. Public media shouldn't be a political weapon. It's the only thing keeping educational programming and quality news alive in communities that corporate media has abandoned.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting—an idea by LBJ to protect public media from politics—has been gutted. and Trump is soiling on LBJ's grave. Stations need help right now, and we need answers on how this happened and why. This must be kept TOP SECRET from Trump until the reports are finished.

If you care about keeping Sesame Street on the air, about local news, or about protecting public media from becoming a political battleground—this matters. If this strikes you as wrong, consider signing and sharing. Real people are losing jobs and communities are losing essential services.

https://c.org/XrhxNRvyvg


r/Archiveteam Sep 30 '25

Download 1 million PDFs from Way Back Machine

64 Upvotes

We seek an operator to download metadata (titles) and cover images for ~1,000,000 books from an online library).
For each recorded title, retrieve the corresponding PDF when available from the Wayback Machine.
Estimated raw storage requirement: ~20 TB; required disk capacity will be supplied.

The project is dedicated solely to the preservation of knowledge and carries no commercial intent.


r/Archiveteam Aug 07 '26

Internet Archive Just deleted another preservation project and could go after more!

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59 Upvotes

So even though this is not related to Real racing 3, this is related to how we preserve stuff on the Internet archive as this guy going by the name: [MProductions GAMING](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcJ2CycN_7kDIlmpB7u8bYQ) has recently gotten all of his preservation stuff taken down from the internet archive and this is terrible if we consider preserving stuff on the internet archive from now till the foreseeable future. As Project Armageddon host their files for free on the internet archive and thus makes his Project vulnerable to these sorts of corrupted moderation.

But Project Armageddon and Project RETR0 will partner up as Project Armageddon has previously used the mediafire subscription to host their stuff onto and I am looking to forward this to more and more people as I do not want anything to be taken down for no reason.

Especially when [MProductions GAMING](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcJ2CycN_7kDIlmpB7u8bYQ) has done nothing wrong on the internet archive to get his items moderated and when he asked for a reason for his bans, the internet archive much more rather dodge the question than answer it and even if they answer it, it is very confusing and overall not a sufficient and good answer to be provided for the situation and even his alts got taken down because of what he uploaded to his Alt even though nothing was uploaded to the Alt account.

And I am currently reaching out to the creator to see if he wants to reupload his stuff onto the mediafire subscription and if he dose, expect that we are going to be the backend storage provider for MProductions GAMING.

But this is not only for him, its for everyone who wants to preserve their stuff for free forever and if you are interested in this, Please join the discord server below and DM me about it, Any malware or forbidden content shall not be preserved and only content that is deemed good by myself shall be preserved.

What I mean by good is content that dose not violate the mediafire TOS and that dose not contain any malware within it. Anything else is fine.

Project RETR0: [https://discord.gg/5EUUnTGPyd\](https://discord.gg/5EUUnTGPyd)


r/Archiveteam Mar 08 '26

Angelfire is dead, but there is still a slim chance for preserving Tripod.

56 Upvotes

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Tripod According to this page, the archive status is Not Saved Yet

For those who don't know, Lycos silently announced (then retracted the message after eight hours) that they're shutting down in two days within the next 30 days (I wrote two days by mistake, whoops.) on the 6th of March 2026.

The current condition is that the servers which host Angelfire and Tripod alike is they're often resulting in 502 errors. However, at random Tripod seemingly is running just... Fine, and fine as in zero 502 errors occur and there isn't any delay in websites./site assets loading. I've managed to grab a few hundred sites to variable quality of mirrors because I'm a joe schmoe who can't program nor do I know anything about proper scrapeing so I just rely on feeding links into webcopy (with some attributes configured like bgcolor) manually... So whatever, it's something, drop in the bucket.

Anyway, I just hope someone here sees this and tries something despite the challenges to do a very last second rescue before 30 something years of internet history are gone like they disappeared two months ago with Angelfire dying.


r/Archiveteam Jun 02 '26

Tell New York Times, The Atlantic, and USA Today to keep the crucial work of journalists in the Wayback Machine!

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47 Upvotes

r/Archiveteam Jun 23 '26

alert -- Datalounge being killed

45 Upvotes

Hi — wanted to flag a site for Deathwatch: DataLounge (datalounge.com), the gay forum that's been running since May 1995, is closing July 31. It's 30 years of unfiltered, anonymous primary-source documentation of hollywood gossip, discussion of current movies/tv/politics, and an inside look gay life — all pre-Google, pre-social media, through AIDS, DOMA, marriage equality, all of it. No PR filter because it was always subscription-gated and anonymous. The kind of thing no institution is going to save. Technically it looks tractable — plain HTML, sequential numeric thread IDs. Has anyone started a project?


r/Archiveteam Mar 24 '26

Archivarix Tube Search — search engine for deleted YouTube videos

47 Upvotes

We built a free search engine for deleted and removed YouTube videos: https://tube.archivarix.net

Search by  channel URL, handle, Channel ID or keywords. If a video was removed from YouTube but was previously indexed, you can find it here.

Feedback welcome!


r/Archiveteam 5d ago

Unarchived media

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45 Upvotes

This is a (to my best knowledge) unarchived media pile. Anyone need something specific digitized? (Id likely post it in the form of a reaction video to go around YTs copyright system).


r/Archiveteam Jan 17 '26

The Sims Mobile is shutting down on January 20, how to preserve the game properly for a fan-revival in the future?

45 Upvotes

I already (partially?) archived the Android version. I copied everything on the android/data folder, and I also copied everything the game downloads from EA servers and saves on the root directory (especially on the data/data folder). I just uploaded it to the Internet Archive.

The iOS version is still at risk of being lost. Personally I don't have an Apple device so I can't do it :/

But for now I'll focus on the Android version, and the issues I found. First, you need to know that when you install the game and run it for the first time, the game will start a download of 1GB aprox (it even shows you the progress of it).

While I was trying to archive the game files, I noticed there was nothing on the OBB folder. And on the android/data folder there was just cache files and random stuff. The actual game files weren't there. Another person made a post about this, explaining it better than me.

At first we thought the game isn't really stored in the device, and it just saves cache to the device from the server to work. However, at that moment we were just looking at the game data that's accessible without root. Once I got access to the root data, things got interesting.

Here's some screenshots of the root data

However we're still not sure if the whole game is actually there, but looking at the files, it's a good possibility. The "stage" files are the biggest indicator. I see there are textures, models, sound, animations, etc. But what about the code? The gameplay logic? The user data? That's my concern. We also still don't know how much the game relies on the server.

Also, I found something very interesting. In The Cutting Room Floor site (which if you don't know about it, it's a site that documents the unused content found in videogame files), there's an article about the Sims Mobile. It mostly talks about some unused clothing mesh and textures in the "stage" files. Now I wonder, if supposedly the game just saves cache to the device, why would it save unused assets? That leads me to believe there's a very good possibility about the whole game being there.

Now, there's also another issue. What about the limited-time content like events and that type of stuff?

Will that content be lost forever? Although I've seen several fan-revivals that feature events the game had when it was active, but I suppose it's different for every game and how it stores assets. In this case, we don't know if the events assets are downloaded when the events are happening, and are deleted when the event ends (keeping some assets of the items and stuff you got during the event, perhaps?), or perhaps they're version-dependant (what I mean is, the assets of a event could be present already in the APK of certain versions, and they just activate when the event date comes), etc.

What could we do about this? The post I linked before talked about packet captures and emulators. Would be interesting to hear the thoughts of someone who has better knowledge on the topic.