Archive Team has just begun the distributed archiving of the Japanese SS Blog, a blog hosting service, which is set to be discontinued on March 31, 2025.
And you can help! There isn't much time left, so as many people running the warrior as possible is needed.
Resources:
- The wiki page of the project (not much info)
- The tracker (at the top of the page) has the simplest info on how you can help out
- The github page offers a docker-based alternative for advanced users, and more info on best practices for this sort of archiving
Why help out?
The web is disappearing all the time, and often a lot of previously easily accessible information is lost to time. These japanese blogs may not be very important to you, but they certainly are to a lot of people, and nobody knows what sort of information is found only here, until they need it.
In case you haven't looked into it yourself yet...
ArchiveTeam are independent from IA, but their stuff mostly does end up uploaded into the Wayback Machine. Storage space (like yours) isn't usually what they are looking for, but rather the internet bandwidth and "virgin" IP address of aforementioned "warriors" running their code to scrape different websites, and then uploading the results to AT's servers, where they are collected and eventually uploaded again to IA.
Check out https://tracker.archiveteam.org/ for current projects