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   Luna (lunakitty@wetdry.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 21:58:04 JST Luna

   BetaArchive.com after hosting 110tb of betas you cant fucking download

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     Luna (lunakitty@wetdry.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 21:58:03 JST Luna

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     what is the point of a software archival website that doesnt let you download from their archive. what

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     Luna (lunakitty@wetdry.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 21:58:22 JST Luna

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     please upload any lost software to archive.org instead.

     its clear betaarchive has no interest in actual software preservation if they lock their downloads behind contributor status on accounts that can be deleted after a month of inactivity.

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     ivory (ioletsgo@wetdry.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 21:58:46 JST ivory

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     @lunakitty betaarchive basically stores betas for clout sake, not for preservation sake.

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     Luna (lunakitty@wetdry.world)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 21:58:49 JST Luna

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     support archive.org, too! donate a few bucks to them if you can! they deserve your support and they are an insanely invaluable resource - the wayback machine is an archive.org project and the amount of times ive used it to gain access to old files on now defunct websites is countless

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     :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: (allison@hidamari.apartments)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 22:36:55 JST :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans: :blobancap: :blobcattrans:

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     • Hyolobrika
     • Dushman
     @Hyolobrika @dushman I don't think Google indexes FTP sites currently, but I would love to be proven wrong about that. For searching FTP, I tend to use dedicated engines like https://www.mmnt.ru/int/ and pray whatever server is hosting the file in question is still up and untouched.
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     Hyolobrika (hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 22:36:56 JST Hyolobrika

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     • Dushman
     So Google indexes FTP servers? What about DDG, Brave, Mojeek, etc?
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     Dushman (dushman@den.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 22:36:57 JST Dushman

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     • Hyolobrika

     @Hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net
     This should also search ftp servers if google still indexes them but that I'm not sure about

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     Hyolobrika (hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 22:36:58 JST Hyolobrika

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     • Dushman
     How do you search through ftp servers? Is there an ftp search engine?
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     Dushman (dushman@den.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 22:36:59 JST Dushman

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     @lunakitty@wetdry.world
     very useful searching hack lol

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     Dushman (dushman@den.raccoon.quest)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jan-2024 22:37:00 JST Dushman

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     @lunakitty@wetdry.world
     btw you can easily find old software a lot of the time by just searching through ftp and http file servers with a query like:
     "index of DOOM2.WAD"
     for example