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Anna’s Archive has backed up the world’s largest comics shadow library

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Re: Anna’s Archive has backed up the world’s largest comics shadow library

#11
20000$ for making torrents from comics taken from LibGen? Are you serious?

Damn, you even worse than Z-Library. At least they did a real job and haven’t run away after taking money, like you after receiving donations and shutting down IPFS seeding because of your technical incapability to maintain IPFS hosting.

Re: Anna’s Archive has backed up the world’s largest comics shadow library

#12
It's a shame that there doesn't exist a tool where you can say "I want to seed X gigabytes of this dataset" and it automatically selects and seeds the X rarest GB". It would be fantastic for distributing storage for archivists, while the data set could still be edited and added to and downloaded and automatically balanced across the seeders.

Does such a thing exist? Why isn't it more widely used, and everyone still relies on immutable torrents?

Re: Anna’s Archive has backed up the world’s largest comics shadow library

#13
post #12

It's a shame that there doesn't exist a tool where you can say "I want to seed X gigabytes of this dataset" and it automatically selects and seeds the X rarest GB". It would be fantastic for distributing storage for archivists, while the data set could still be edited and added to and downloaded and automatically balanced across the seeders. Does such a thing exist? Why isn't it more widely used, and everyone still r…

That is a really nice idea for datahoarders like me.

A protocol to announce a change on the collection by one of their members and being announced by the whole system.

Re: Anna’s Archive has backed up the world’s largest comics shadow library

#14

Author here. Happy to answer questions. We're excited to finally be getting this collection out there!

Meritorious work, but one huge file makes it hugely impractical. Am I really supposed to find local space for 12TB of stuff if I'm just after a few series, i.e. probably a couple of GBs at best? Or is there some torrent hackery that allows me to peek inside the file and only get the chunks I want?

Re: Anna’s Archive has backed up the world’s largest comics shadow library

#15
post #14

Author here. Happy to answer questions. We're excited to finally be getting this collection out there!

Meritorious work, but one huge file makes it hugely impractical. Am I really supposed to find local space for 12TB of stuff if I'm just after a few series, i.e. probably a couple of GBs at best? Or is there some torrent hackery that allows me to peek inside the file and only get the chunks I want?

The torrents are only for hard-core data hoarders. If you want just a few individual files, you can use Anna's Archive.

Re: Anna’s Archive has backed up the world’s largest comics shadow library

#16

Curious why you don't consider refactoring the file layout before making the torrent.

Good question! We did consider that, but the structure of the directories themselves conveyed a ton of information, so ultimately we thought that it was better to keep it like this.
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