Alright, an update, I'm going to make the archive into a torrent, I'm just fixing up the archive itself for now. I didn't see any illegal content like CP or anything while I went through it, but there are some other issues I'm working through in order to make it the highest quality I can.
The latest archive had a lot of missing images and thumbnails, but luckily because of the structure of the archive, I'm able to pull from older archives that had images that were missing in the newest one and merge them together and ignore the duplicate files, so basically the only images missing were ones posted after the board essentially died, aside from a handful of odd images that somehow got missed by every archive for one reason or another. As of right now I can't find any missing images (EDIT: never mind there are a handful in some threads but some of them I think were 404d when the archiver ran) however the thumbnails for some images are missing, so if you see a broken thumbnail, you can still click it and get the image behind the thumbnail. I COULD fix some of these thumbnails manually, and I have done so for a lot of the OP images just so that the catalog looks nice, but there will come a point where it won't really be worth my time I think.
The final filesize is going to be around 9.5 GB, I thought I could pare it down smaller but it looks like the overwhelming majority of that data is image files posted to the board itself, there are a couple of .zips that people have uploaded to filehosting sites that the archiver grabbed which I may pull out but haven't decided yet, and that will save AT MOST 1 GB so I'm tempted to just leave them for posterity as some of them are dumps of an artist or something, and I'm sure at least some of these files are no longer hosted by their filehost website if you were to find and click the link within the archive.
Right now there's only a couple of major issues left, like some threads you can't enter for some reason (but if you do manage to get in, all the files are present), but I was able to fix it on some occasions so I'm going to try to make sure you can enter every thread.
If it's not up by next week I'll give another update but I'm hoping to be done soon.
Post last edited at 02/04/22 (Fri) 18:21:13