@qonnyr its fucking wild https://support.500px.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005097533

@eq THAT SUCKS SO MUCH WHAT THE HECK

@qonnyr ikr

@eq @qonnyr what a bunch of useless dicks

@pixelfed should expect tons of users soon 😉

@eq
@qonnyr

LB context: #500px is removing the ability to upload, download, or search for #CreativeCommons licensed images, with basically no warning. Follow the instructions provided by @eq if you can: https://cybre.space/@eq/100290879824956894

@eq @qonnyr
I sounds like they were running out of money. You can't expect a for profit company to do nonprofit things.

That is why places like archive.org and wikipedia need to exist. They also need donations though.

@jorty @eq All of them.

@eq Aha, it’s intermittently working now. 🤘

@mkb @eq Yeah they added throttling.
The trick is to open 500px.lua, and replace "local sleep_time = 0" with "local sleep_time = 1", if you're not using the warrior.
If using the warrior, you'll have to wait for the devs to push an update.

@elomatreb @val @mkb welcome to capitalism

@elomatreb @eq @mkb It keeps happening. $company say they'll remove the contnt, ArchiveTeam downloads it, $company whines about archivists.
Last time it was Soundcloud

@mkb @eq Update: the warrior is fixed, but we need a lot more warriors now that download are highly rate-limited

@val @eq Redownload then? Or will it update the task?

@mkb @eq The VM will auto-update it now

@val @eq Excellent.

@val @eq I can log into the VM. Just tell me where the file is.

@vigdis https://support.500px.com/hc/en-us/articles/360005097533

@TheOuterLinux i think the archiveteam will be able to handle distribution of the items already. the main problem is the actual archival lol

@eq Well, I've owned a website before and it shouldn't be too hard for them to just backup their own data base files and figure it out later, wether they're self hosting or paying someone else. Owning a website is getting to be a pain for little traffic. I've learned it's much better to get a .io static website or repository from places like GitHub or GitLab and then you have SSL and pretty more storage than you'll ever really need, all for free. You can self host GitLab too.

@TheOuterLinux yes, but 500px isn't archiving the thing. they're just shutting it down without warning.

If they wanted to continue hosting the content, they would. They don't, so that's what the archiveteam is for

@eq And then you can just use software like Bluegriffon to manage it. Git add ., git commit -m '...', git push, done.

@TheOuterLinux why are you explaining git to me? i know how git works. what does that have to do with this

@eq @TheOuterLinux lol this is the most fossbro shit I've ever seen.

@matt yeah

@SoniEx2 yes!

@eq can I run the warrior (or at least the script) on my phone?

@SoniEx2 i would ask the IRC but i doubt it

@eq can I run this behind a CGN?

@luricaun I believe right now doing 1 concurrent item per warrior might be more efficient because of rate limiting.

@eq
Thanks for the advice. I was wondering if there is a way to speed things up. Any suggestions? I will lower the concurrent items for now then.

@luricaun Well, the ratelimiting is around 1 request per second per IP, so you should run each warrior on its own IP if you aren't already. Basically at this point that's all you can do, I think.

@eq Unfortunately I'm running those puppies at home and I don't have IPv6 yet. So there is no chance to serve from different IPs for me.
Anyhow thanks for the tip and let's safe a little piece of the web, shall we?

@luricaun Unfortunately even if you did, apparently this site doesn't have an ipv6 address to use.

Thank you for setting the warrior up!

@eq
Always. <3

@AmauryPi thank you :)