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What do they mean by this? I did notice that looking for archives of a few domains, including my own returned no results.

dredmorbius 8y ago
Google+ is shutting down on April 2. There's a bunch of folks who are interested in preserving content from the site. Some personally/individually, a whole host of communities, and, well, because their mission is to preserve the world's data, the Internet Archive and an unaffiliated though closely-working group, the Archive Team: https://archiveteam.org https://archiveteam.org That's a bunch of volunteers who basically suck the guts out of failing websites, and they've got some big ambitions. I'm from the Google+ user community side and have been helping organise information and activity on behalf of others. There's a pretty comprehensive (and messy) wiki at https://social.antefriguserat.de https://social.antefriguserat.de with FAQs and directories and guidance and a whole bunch of other stuff, plus other resources -- G+ communities, subreddits, and more. We (the G+ community side) stumbled across Archive Team this past January and were delighted to discover they existed. (They've told us they're also glad they exist.) And we've been working together to coordinate this pull, with AT providing the technical capabilities -- code, servers, bandwidth, and storage -- and us mostly pestering them with questions but also knowing a good bit about the characteristics of Google+ data and some of its organisation. (I've made a hobby of ... measuring much of that.) I was finally able to answer my mother's persistent question "but who cares about any of this" with "arkiver, of the Archive Team". Anyway: the Archive Team grab is in full swing, we've got about 24-48 hours left, depending on when Google shut shit down, and all of a sudden all the archiving agents ("Warriors") stop collecting data. We're 86% through the working set, and are on track to complete 92% of all scheduled data requests by the earliest anticipated shutdown window. (Earlier estimates, before the throttling, were over 100% completion, meaning we had some slack space.) Answer your question?
- mrhappyunhappy 8y ago
  Yes, thank you

dredmorbius 8y ago

Google+ is shutting down on April 2. There's a bunch of folks who are interested in preserving content from the site. Some personally/individually, a whole host of communities, and, well, because their mission is to preserve the world's data, the Internet Archive and an unaffiliated though closely-working group, the Archive Team: https://archiveteam.org https://archiveteam.org That's a bunch of volunteers who basically suck the guts out of failing websites, and they've got some big ambitions. I'm from the Google+ user community side and have been helping organise information and activity on behalf of others. There's a pretty comprehensive (and messy) wiki at https://social.antefriguserat.de https://social.antefriguserat.de with FAQs and directories and guidance and a whole bunch of other stuff, plus other resources -- G+ communities, subreddits, and more. We (the G+ community side) stumbled across Archive Team this past January and were delighted to discover they existed. (They've told us they're also glad they exist.) And we've been working together to coordinate this pull, with AT providing the technical capabilities -- code, servers, bandwidth, and storage -- and us mostly pestering them with questions but also knowing a good bit about the characteristics of Google+ data and some of its organisation. (I've made a hobby of ... measuring much of that.) I was finally able to answer my mother's persistent question "but who cares about any of this" with "arkiver, of the Archive Team". Anyway: the Archive Team grab is in full swing, we've got about 24-48 hours left, depending on when Google shut shit down, and all of a sudden all the archiving agents ("Warriors") stop collecting data. We're 86% through the working set, and are on track to complete 92% of all scheduled data requests by the earliest anticipated shutdown window. (Earlier estimates, before the throttling, were over 100% completion, meaning we had some slack space.) Answer your question?

mrhappyunhappy 8y ago
Yes, thank you