How soon before the Internet Archive goes under because they can’t afford hardware anymore, and to take this further, how soon before self-hosting becomes untenable and self-hosted platforms like the Fediverse start to collapse as a result?

just to point out. it’s not gone forever, it’s just gone from public access.

hopefully the admins will hold onto multiple copies of the data for posterity.

6k per month with prices going up further. Yeah I get it.

Guess it’s time to archive Myrient. A group of people could take care of it - split it into categories, download, and then sit on it until a new host can be found.

Entire categories are easy to download with a simple curl call.

They were the best for grabbing any classic games. Fuck this AI craze and what is doing to hardware/hosting costs.

Tragic =(