Independent Web Archiving Service With Transparent Governance
C6/10March 22, 2026
WhatA well-governed, nonprofit or co-op web archiving service that preserves pages on demand — like archive.today — but with transparent operations, clear policies, and no anonymous operator risk.
SignalUsers are deeply conflicted: they rely heavily on archive.today for accessing paywalled or deleted content, but are alarmed that the service is run by an anonymous operator who has engaged in DDoS attacks, faces FBI investigations, and could disappear at any time. There is a clear need for this functionality from a trustworthy provider.
Why NowWikipedia has deprecated archive.today links, Cloudflare is blocking the domain, and trust in the service is collapsing — creating a vacuum for a credible alternative right as web content preservation is more important than ever.
MarketResearchers, journalists, legal professionals, and Wikipedia editors who need reliable web archiving. Archive.org exists but doesn't do on-demand single-page snapshots well. Could sustain on donations/grants like Internet Archive ($30M+ annual) or charge institutions.
MoatNetwork effects from link permanence — once millions of URLs point to your archive, switching costs are enormous. Archive.org has this moat; a new entrant would need to capture the migration moment.
Cloudflare flags archive.today as "C&C/Botnet"; no longer resolves via 1.1.1.2View discussion ↗ · Article ↗ · 393 pts · March 22, 2026
More ideas from March 22, 2026
SSD-Optimized Local LLM Inference EngineP7/10A commercial inference runtime that lets developers and power users run 300B+ parameter models on consumer hardware by streaming sparse MoE weights from SSD through optimized GPU compute pipelines.
Multi-SSD Inference Appliance for Personal AI LabsC6/10A purpose-built hardware+software appliance that stripes MoE model weights across multiple NVMe SSDs (or Intel Optane) to achieve 30-50 tokens/second on giant models without expensive GPU memory.
Mobile GPU LLM Inference OptimizerC5/10An inference SDK that brings MoE expert-streaming techniques to mobile GPUs (Adreno, Mali, Apple A-series), enabling usable on-device inference of large models on phones and tablets.
SSD Wear-Aware AI Workload ManagerC5/10A system utility that monitors and intelligently manages SSD wear from AI inference workloads, implementing caching strategies, wear leveling across drives, and lifetime predictions specific to LLM usage patterns.
Offline-First Personal Knowledge Server with Local AIP5/10A plug-and-play appliance that packages curated knowledge bases (Wikipedia, maps, tutorials, medical references) with a local LLM for natural-language querying, designed to work entirely without internet.
Turnkey Offline Knowledge Kit for Old DevicesC5/10A lightweight app that packages Wikipedia, OpenStreetMap, survival guides, and tutorial videos into a single installable bundle optimized for old Android tablets and low-end hardware.