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Archiving is the gem that saved The Party!
NEVER rely on a single site for archiving, as we could get excluded again like on Archive.org!
YOU VVILL HELP ARCHIVE

This article showcases lists of tools an average 'teen can use to archive gems because nothing on the internet is permanent, and less so on the Sharty!

Online Archiving[edit | edit source]

Be like him

Web Services[edit | edit source]

This is why you never rely on any single web archive.

You can submit a URL to these sites and view it later:

If you want to be handheld see: Archiving/archive.today tutorial (or just use the extensions listed below)

Files[edit | edit source]

(NOTE: ANYTHING UPLOADED TO THE SITES LISTED BELOW ARE ONLY PUBLIC IF YOU SHARE THE LINK TO THE FILE)

You can upload pictures, videos, zip folders, and HTML pages you've collected to:

and store the links in a note file or cloud service.

Extensions[edit | edit source]

Here is a list of extensions you can use to help make archiving easier:

Local Archiving[edit | edit source]

Truly nothing on the internet is permanent, not even archive sites. That's why it's important to save stuff (e.g. Images, Videos, and HTMLs) to your local hard drive and make backups.

Web Pages[edit | edit source]

  • "Ctrl+S" on your Browser - Works fine on Vichan, however may break if the page is too large.
  • On Firefox (and derivatives like LibreWolf), "Ctrl+S" and then choose "Web Page, complete". This stores pictures and stylesheets in a subfolder.
  • Chrome and Edge and Internet Explorer also let you save pages in a single file as MHTML.
  • Singlefile extension [4] - Good overall, Saves the page as you see it in one .html file, Saves full images if you open them.
  • On mobile, don't use Samsung Internet to save pages! They are stored in a way they can only be accessed from inside the app! You can't copy the files to a different device without extreme measures like rooting and bootloader unlocking.
  • Firefox Mobile lacks the ability to save pages at all. The best you can do is print as PDF, and the PDFs look crap. Chrome mobile lets you save as MHTML in the download folder, which is the most decent option so far for mobile users.

Videos[edit | edit source]

Advanced[edit | edit source]

  • ArchiveBox allows you to run your own website archiver locally (can also apparently import from browser bookmarks or history).
  • yt-dlp - Download videos from YouTube and many other sites.
    • It is recommended that you download videos as AV1/VP9+Opus instead of H.264+AAC as the former is higher quality
  • gallery-dl - For mass downloading image galleries and collections.
  • Hayden - Newgen imageboard archiving software.
  • >he doesn't have a custom-programmed live sharty-compatible vichan archiver >shiggy saving individual threads

The Party's Archives[edit | edit source]

Use this button to grab archives quickly

4chan Archives[edit | edit source]

Lost Archives[edit | edit source]

There have been three incidents where the Sharty lost past archives:

  • On June 5, 2023, the Log Warehouse shut down, causing a major loss of images from November 2022 to June 2023. While the images were lost, the textual content were archived and are available as a torrent or on archive.soyjak.st.
  • In November 2023, another sharty archive - archive.soyjak.in - shut down. This time no archive was made, and so threads from Autumn 2023 were lost.
  • On December 13, 2023, the Sharty was excluded from the Wayback Machine after being snitched on, resulting in the loss of over 10,000 archives, mostly from the early days of the site. These archives were only stored on the Wayback Machine and are now permanently lost.
  • In February 2025, The Cellar went down, and has been down for months as of writing this, likely due to it being hosted on a laptop in Quote's parents house. There is no current ETA on when it will return. This marks yet another loss of hundreds of thousands of posts. It may come back eventually, but it's unlikely as of now.

This is why it's important to ‘chive pages via multiple means; otherwise, if an archive site suddenly disappears or deletes our pages like the Log Warehouse or Wayback did, your thread doesn't become lost media.

Further reading[edit | edit source]

Citations[edit source]

  1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
  2. ↑ 'chive jannies excluded the soyjak.party domain from the Wayback Machine because of a single snitchtroon (not the current "soyjak.st" domain doealbeit).
  3. ↑ You can paste the archive.org link into archive.today
  4. ↑ Scroll down to "Install" section
  5. ↑ Yes, I hate Reddit too, but this subreddit can still provide useful information on archiving.
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