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Are there any figures available anywhere as to how many people actively-passively maintain a personal-private archive?
by loceng 3y ago
Are there any figures available anywhere as to how many people actively-passively maintain a personal-private archive?
- nikisweeting 3y agoArchiveBox doesn't really phone home for any reason, so unfortunately I don't have good analytics to know how many real users there are (I'm the ArchiveBox creator). We also set noindex/nofollow on public snapshot content by default, so unfortunately we cant search the web to find public ArchiveBox instances either (for good reason, otherwise users would immediately get tons of automated DMCA notices / copyright trouble). We do add `ArchiveBox/v0.x.x` to the user agent for all requests by default + push URLs to Archive.org. So in theory someone at Archive.org could look in their server logs for that string and get a pretty good idea of the daily activity (at least for users with default settings). I've asked them a few times in person to run that search but never gotten a follow-up. They're probably very busy and it's just for curiosity, but it would be nice to know someday! The only other metrics we have as of 2024/01: - ~5m Docker Hub image pulls - ~17k Github Stars - ~1k issues and PRs, 100+ contributors - ~1k browser extension users
- nikisweeting 3y agoI may add an opt-in federation option at some point in the far future, it would be great to figure out a way to link willing donor's ArchiveBox instances together for public benefit. Follow here for progress: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/50 https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/50