ArchiveBox is evolving: the future of self-hosted internet archives

Disappointing that a project that should ostensibly care about preserving the open, non-centralised internet takes the time to namedrop and talk about making "compromises" against preserving a well-known, medium-sized clearnet forum legally operated from a US-based LLC. Still-living independent forum sites in this day and age have unrivalled SNR of actual human-to-human communication, there should be no better candidate for archival. It's sad that a self-hosted archival tool has to apologise for any "evil" content it might be used for in the first place. Tape recorders do not require a disclaimer about people saying "hate speech" into them.

Sorry which medium sized forum are you referring to?

I love forums and want them to continue, I'm not sure where you got the idea that I dislike them as a medium. I was just pointing out that public sites in general have started to see some attrition a bit lately for a variety of reasons, and the tooling needs to keep with new mediums as they appear.

I also make no apology for the content, in fact ArchiveBox is explicitly designed to archive the most vile stuff for lawyers and governments to use for long term storage or evidence collection. One of our first prospective clients was the UN wanting to use it to document Syrian war crimes. The point there was that we can save stuff without amplifying it, and that's sometimes useful in niche scenarios.

Lawyers/LE especially don't want to broadcast to the world (or tip off their suspect) that they are investigating or endorsing a particular person, so the ability to capture without publicly announcing/mirroring every capture is vital.

I guess he's talking about K_wi F_rms which was mentioned in one of the screenshots...

It's just a forum like any other and yet you're acting like it's, at least, the Devil 2.0.