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Archive Team Races to Save a Billion Imgur Files Before Porn Deletion Apocalypse  https://www.vice.com/en/article/ak3ew4/archive-team-races-to-save-a-billion-imgur-files-before-porn-deletion-apocalypse

It's not just porn: As a major deadline hits, archivists are speeding up their efforts to backup Imgur, and are asking for help from the community to archive the last batch of images.

You should know that you may be archiving a lot of porn in the process—but you’ll also be saving a lot of content that’s not porn.

Last month, the image-hosting website introduced a new terms of service that would lead to the removal of two kinds of images from the platform—various kinds of adult content, and content uploaded by anonymous users. The new Terms of Service kicks in on Monday, but it will likely take the Imgur team time to begin removing said images from their servers.

On Sunday, the Reddit user Seglegs reported that roughly 760 million images had already been archived, with more than 250 million to go. Seglegs encouraged users to download ArchiveTeam Warrior, an archival “appliance” that downloads information in bulk through a virtual machine.

“I think it’s worth noting that despite everyone’s valiant efforts there are just too many images out there,” they wrote. “The only way we’re saving everything is if you run ArchiveTeam Warrior and get the word out to other people.”

Numerous users have met the call—such that, as of this writing, the number of recovered files has increased to more than 900 million per the Archive Team’s tracker, with around 140 million more still to go.