State of the Audiofic Archive

[paraka]

Hey all,

This is an unofficial update on the state of the Audiofic Archive.

As some of you may know, back in December I started organizing a crowd sourcing of the missing back catalogue of the archive. We recovered almost 14,000 the approximately 20,000 files missing, leaving just over 6,000 to go.

However on February 3 while trying to upload podfics, I got an error saying that the server was out of space. I hoped that would be a temporary error, but thus far it has not been resolved. I've contacted the head of the Archive asking for help as they are the only ones able to contact the webhosting the company to get this straightened out but have not heard back (I'm sure many of you have been reading between the lines but the archivists have been working on their own to restore the archive without any guidance from the archive owner. We haven't had any news since the public update July 5th). This means we're unable to add any files to the Archive, whether they're new podfics or from the backlog of missing ones.

Thank you to everyone who helped get those 14K files back up, I'll follow up if anything changes in the future.

Comments

[chasingriver]

Wow. Thanks for the update. I missed the earlier posting, but have files that I would/could add to the list if it would still be useful. Should I? (They're not already added, at least not given the current search in the archive.) Thanks so much for all your efforts on this.

[paraka]

jinjurly says she's working on the issue, so if it gets fixed I can let you know and we can resume the restore. :)

[kitsuneheart]

So, yeah...Jinjurly's domain registration expires in September. That's...a deadline to watch.

[metal_dog5]

Seconding the wow. I haven't been reading most comms for ages, so am really out of the loop on this. Thanks for putting in the hard work trying to keep the archive alive.

[podfic_lover]

Thank you for the update and all the hard work you put in organizing the crowd sourcing project!

I had a lot of fun working on it and would be up for more.

[paraka]

Well, jinjurly says she's working on it, so hopefully we can get back at it soon!

[general_jinjur]

It is a temporary error, and I'm working on it.

[paraka]

Any chance you were given a time frame for how long it'll take to be resolved? I've been checking the disk space daily since this message but I'm guessing that was optimistic of me since it's still 100% full.

[dancinbutterfly]

let us know if you need any help

[xancredible]

Has there been any change?

[paraka]

Not that I've heard, unfortunately. I just checked the server and we're still out of space. /o\

[xancredible]

It's been nearly 2 years since I last asked, so I figured I'd ask again. Is there space open again for crowdsourcing? Or have all crowdsourced podfics already been uploaded? I lost track of this project but as I'm in the process of sorting through some of my (old) downloads now, I keep finding dead links, still :(.