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What an abrupt end. And their robots.txt[1] never allowed the Internet Archive to crawl them, so nothing will be archived.

[1]: http://ffffound.com/robots.txt



I have a backup utility rolling at http://ddddownload.club . It's not perfect, but I'm afraid I don't have a lot of time left for troubleshooting.


Found http://lookwork.com/ through links on your site. It looks similar to ffffound at a glance, but I'd never heard of either before now.

Would you recommend it?


Lookwork is a very different beast… it is an RSS reader without the pictures. It does, like FFFFOUND, have image bookmarking functions, although at some point down the line we'd like to move that to Pinterest or maybe just Dropbox. But regardless, I personally think it is fantastic for discovery, please give it a try.


As someone new to ffffound, I don't already have an account with favorites. Are there any complete backups of the images somewhere?


Sweet, thanks for making this!


ArchiveTeam, however, is not as scrupulous :)


Almost done. robots.txt is so pedestrian.


Wiki page doesn't contain much info. http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Ffffound%21


I'm flying solo. Wish I could say I get tired of these site closures, but its sort of fun archiving them up.

I'm in ur content, savin some culture.


I also set up a tool to export your Ffffound account to http://www.wookmark.com . Note that a paid account ($20/year) is required, so I can keep the lights on. If you want to do this, create a Wookmark account and message me the usernames from both sites. While I'm writing this, my import scripts are working through a Ffffound account with 6000 images. It's a fairly straightforward process. Happy Thursday.


As a side-note, Internet Archive is starting to ignore robots.txt rules for this exact reason : https://blog.archive.org/2017/04/17/robots-txt-meant-for-sea...


I'll be using HTTrack a day or 2 before to get the whole lot.




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