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[–]millicentfawcett 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Hope it's okay to post this here. Does anyone have any idea why I can't view Imgur posts linked here? When I click on them it takes me to the site and all I get is a blank grey page.

I've tried going to the Imgur homepage which works as normal but it's the same there if I try to click on a thumbnail. I've opened an account to see if it makes a difference being signed in but it hasn't. I've tried messing around with settings on my browser (Safari) and tried using a VPN.

I've run out of ideas now. TIA

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

On a related note, sometime in the last couple of weeks archive.today (/.vn /.ph) seems to have added a captcha. I imagine they are dealing with a fair bit of targeting given all the stuff they save and won't delete.

[–]NutterButterFlutterStill waving into the void 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I notice that they do that most often under 2 conditions:

1) If I've been mass-archiving things back-to-back (like 5 or 6 articles within seconds of each other)
2) When they have THOUSANDS of items in the queue to be archived (I JUST went to archive something, and it's registering at number 12,642 in the queue)

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I really wonder if they can handle all the increased traffic and archiving demands they're going to the get as more and more history is at risk from being scrubbed from the net due to being politically inconvenient. Because I'm not seeing many alternatives other than waybackmachine and they're compromised(they pick and choose what to keep).

[–]wafflegaffWoman. SuperBi. 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I have consistently run into the CAPTCHA since first noticing it, even if I only archive one thing in a few days' time, but it stopped making me solve puzzles after the first few, at least. But, whatever it takes to keep them online is fine by me.

[–]MarkJeffersonTight defenses and we draw the line 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm ok with a captcha, too. It's probably the case that they're being attacked by censorious agents, but it may also be the case that this is a reaction to a genuine increase in archival demand.

I wouldn't be too surprised considering how popular it's getting to edit older articles, definitions, and wiki pages because they are 'inconvenient', and remove comments/posts on social media for wrongthink. Internet archival is a need that is increasingly hard to satisfy, at least the way it's done now.