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Archive.org: Only 12 days to reach the goal of $150,000

144 points by jpswade 14y ago

carleverett 14y ago
In the donation options, the 3:1 effect of the donation towards the goal is included, but I think it is misleading. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a $50 donation will bring them $200 closer to the $600,000 goal, but will only bring them $50 closer to the $150,000 goal that they are pushing for. That might cause some confusion.
- Wingman4l7 14y ago
  Tomato, tomahto. They're really pushing for the $600k goal because that's how much the 4 PB of storage that they want to buy costs. It doesn't really matter because in the end, the percentage is the same.
gokfar 14y ago
The Wayback Machine has served me well over the years. I sent half a bitcoin. The title should include something about the 3:1 matching, this usually makes me much more likely to donate. I hope they reach their goal and show pictures of what 4PB of storage looks like.
- asmosoinio 14y ago
  Agree on the title change. "3:1" pushed me over the edge to seek out my PayPal password and make a donation.
nextstep 14y ago
Only 12 more days until the arbitrary date by when Archive.org wanted to raise $150,000.
- Wingman4l7 14y ago
  Not an arbitrary date -- the supporter will stop matching the donations after December 31st. The goal could be argued to be arbitrary -- $600k for 4 more petabytes of storage.
nnnnnn 14y ago
Someone went wild with that bar graph bevel.
- benesch 14y ago
  Looks like a default Excel 2007 style to me :/
bananashake 14y ago
Every person that has ever been harassed by or lost a job over a web page can thank the archive for making that permanent. It's irresponsible and unlawful to make unauthorized archives of web pages.
- cowsaysoink 14y ago
  It is ridiculous to me that people view public web pages as something that shouldn't be archived, if anything it provides illuminating snapshots to the state of the web at certain dates. The archive.org team does follow robots.txt and I believe they remove content retroactively meaning if you update your site with a robots.txt it will delete the old content (which I think sucks).
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  - JoshTriplett 14y ago
    > The archive.org team does follow robots.txt and I believe they remove content retroactively meaning if you update your site with a robots.txt it will delete the old content (which I think sucks). Indeed, especially since most domain parking garbage sites seem to have robots.txt files for some crazy reason.
    - alexkus 14y ago
      > Indeed, especially since most domain parking garbage sites seem to have robots.txt files for some crazy reason. Presumably to avoid being plagued (in terms of load and bandwidth costs) by the numerous crawling bots looking to update their caches of pages that no longer exist on those domains.
      - aw3c2 14y ago
        serving 404s is super cheap actually.
cstrat 14y ago
Done - donated $50 to the cause !! =)
atesti 14y ago
I'm from Germany. Can I tax deduct this? How would I do it? Just show my bank statement to the German IRS?

144 points by jpswade 14y ago

In the donation options, the 3:1 effect of the donation towards the goal is included, but I think it is misleading. Correct me if I'm wrong, but a $50 donation will bring them $200 closer to the $600,000 goal, but will only bring them $50 closer to the $150,000 goal that they are pushing for. That might cause some confusion.

Wingman4l7 14y ago
Tomato, tomahto. They're really pushing for the $600k goal because that's how much the 4 PB of storage that they want to buy costs. It doesn't really matter because in the end, the percentage is the same.

gokfar 14y ago

The Wayback Machine has served me well over the years. I sent half a bitcoin. The title should include something about the 3:1 matching, this usually makes me much more likely to donate. I hope they reach their goal and show pictures of what 4PB of storage looks like.

asmosoinio 14y ago
Agree on the title change. "3:1" pushed me over the edge to seek out my PayPal password and make a donation.

nextstep 14y ago

Only 12 more days until the arbitrary date by when Archive.org wanted to raise $150,000.

Wingman4l7 14y ago
Not an arbitrary date -- the supporter will stop matching the donations after December 31st. The goal could be argued to be arbitrary -- $600k for 4 more petabytes of storage.

nnnnnn 14y ago

Someone went wild with that bar graph bevel.

benesch 14y ago
Looks like a default Excel 2007 style to me :/

bananashake 14y ago

Every person that has ever been harassed by or lost a job over a web page can thank the archive for making that permanent. It's irresponsible and unlawful to make unauthorized archives of web pages.

cowsaysoink 14y ago
It is ridiculous to me that people view public web pages as something that shouldn't be archived, if anything it provides illuminating snapshots to the state of the web at certain dates. The archive.org team does follow robots.txt and I believe they remove content retroactively meaning if you update your site with a robots.txt it will delete the old content (which I think sucks).
- deleted 14y ago
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- JoshTriplett 14y ago
  > The archive.org team does follow robots.txt and I believe they remove content retroactively meaning if you update your site with a robots.txt it will delete the old content (which I think sucks). Indeed, especially since most domain parking garbage sites seem to have robots.txt files for some crazy reason.
  - alexkus 14y ago
    > Indeed, especially since most domain parking garbage sites seem to have robots.txt files for some crazy reason. Presumably to avoid being plagued (in terms of load and bandwidth costs) by the numerous crawling bots looking to update their caches of pages that no longer exist on those domains.
    - aw3c2 14y ago
      serving 404s is super cheap actually.

cstrat 14y ago

Done - donated $50 to the cause !! =)

atesti 14y ago

I'm from Germany. Can I tax deduct this? How would I do it? Just show my bank statement to the German IRS?