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.
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
@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.
@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