this is why archives should be independently duplicated, to head off a massacre.
what isnt clear to me is the survival of the content, was there a data migration or was it all just nerfed?
what isnt clear to me is the survival of the content, was there a data migration or was it all just nerfed?
What's been lost is the efforts of all the users to separate the interesting images from the chaff.. and organise them into collections. For such a large corpus that's a really valuable thing.
Also links people had to those images are just dead.
And all the images users had previously favourited have just disappeared from their collections.
It's an interesting challenge with IA because they have > 100 petabytes of content, many thousands of $ in hard drives alone. Too much for random individuals to decide they want to host their own clone & become a mirror. So, we're be looking at large institutions or companies to do this philanthropically. Or, here's the tech challenge, some distributed mechanism where participants all host a portion, with enough redundancy that a large % could go offline and still keep integrity.