Apologies if crossposting is against the rules; I’m not entirely sure where the lines are drawn here yet.
I posted this in lemmy.fosscad (fosscad@lemmy?), but realize that may not be the most active venue.
I grabbed archives of fosscad and took a look at the contents of the zst’s. I think I could probably rebuild the contents of the subreddit in some manner or another; the question is scale and hosting. How would we make the posts easily searchable, where would they live, what endpoint can we upload hundreds of thousands of comments into in a reasonable time frame… all that fun stuff.
The archives don’t contain pictures, but contain links to the pictures and the ones I’ve checked are currently still live (meaning the pics are still hosted on reddit). Dunno how long that will remain the case.
I have no idea what the size of the archives would be with pics downloaded; gigs, a TB, no clue. I’m posting this to gauge public interest and I haven’t done much preliminary work (oh, these are json. Yep, dictionaries work. Wingo.)
Is there any interest in making this more publicly available? I’ve run into an issue with a particular build and I’ll be diving through the archives to fix it for my self. It seems like a shame that all this information would be inaccessible to everyone who isn’t able or interested in trawling through their own local archives.
I’m not a programmer by trade, but work in an adjacent space. I can plink along on this if other people are interested (and if anyone is interested enough to help pitch in, even better).
Flipping fantastic. Can’t stop the signal!
I need to make my alt-github to I can PR the scripts and code I wrote to upload all this.
When you get the new zsts posted lmk and I’ll start another upload session.
Amazing work.
Just a heads up; I was able to finish pulling down the archives, but it’s going to take awhile to parse; wasn’t expecting to need this much storage touching my compute lol. I’m hoping I can have those ready for upload tonight or early tomorrow AM.
Amen to that!
Looks like the download speed dipped a bit while I was out; around halfway through now. So another 12 hours or so before the torrents are done, sooner if it picks back up, then I’ll need to parse.
I’ll ding you as soon as I’ve got the new zst’s up.
And thank you! Would have taken me a week to put that scripting together.
Go team venture.
You guys are fucking awesome, you know that?
Hey, if you hadn’t built this platform for us, it wouldn’t be happening. Seeing a bit of the old internet come together really warms my cold, dead heart.