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Re: The Eye – Open Directory Data Archive

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This is going to sound like I am trying to throw shade but I really am not. I joined this community a few months back hoping to contribute, but despite numerous offers for help I was turned down nearly every time. There isn’t really any leveraging of the community within the discord or reddit or really anything that I can see. I rarely saw the administrators ask for any help for archiving purposes, and most of the da…

Seconding the library genesis recommendation. There's a lot of people now mirroring those files, and uploading there will make those books easier to find for a wider audience than just the eye.

Yeah, I've been uploading there for a while. I love libgen, and the-eye's efforts to help preserve sci-hub (they didn't have any seeders on many of their torrents) was one of the reasons I originally became interested in the site.

Re: The Eye – Open Directory Data Archive

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post #8

This is going to sound like I am trying to throw shade but I really am not. I joined this community a few months back hoping to contribute, but despite numerous offers for help I was turned down nearly every time. There isn’t really any leveraging of the community within the discord or reddit or really anything that I can see. I rarely saw the administrators ask for any help for archiving purposes, and most of the da…

This hurts to read. Hey hackernews, I'm /u/-Archivist @-Archivist#7336 and run the-eye.eu. I'm going to reply to this and make clear why some people would take away some of these opinions after joining our community on discord. > I joined this community a few months back hoping to contribute, but despite numerous offers for help I was turned down nearly every time. This statement is entirely true, I don't know who th…

Oh okay.

I'mma let your response speak for itself.

Especially since...

> Though I forgive you, your interest is comic books.

lol...

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