Facebook gets a Flickr worth of photos every few days.

toomuchtodo · on Sept 16, 2015

As someone who subscribes to ArchiveTeam's philosophy, it's going to be a dark day when the time comes to scrape Facebook before it goes under with that much data behind the scenes.

zeckalpha · on Sept 16, 2015

It's already backed up to Blueray. They'll just hand it over.

ivank · on Sept 16, 2015

Yeah, right. How and who exactly would they hand that over to, given that there are privacy settings on the photos that people expect to have respected?

BtM909 · on Sept 16, 2015

Sarcasm son....

ivank · on Sept 16, 2015

You'd be surprised at how many people assume these bigcos are open to doing the right thing when they're shutting down.

dx211 · on Sept 16, 2015

Hey, I've still got my complimentary MySpace zip file kicking around somewhere.

jsmeaton · on Sept 17, 2015

I had a hard drive crash on me with all of my photos some years back and my "backup" strategy failed. Dumping a myspace backup got me some of my most precious photos back. Thanks MySpace!

ArekDymalski · on Sept 17, 2015

Even more. Most people don't even realize that things like FB aren't eternal.

nl · on Sept 17, 2015

It isn't even clear what "the right thing" is here.

fao_ · on Sept 16, 2015

I wonder if this system could be used for 'burns'.

Such as: "Hacker News has an Ask dot com userbase of number of good posters" (This obviously does not include me ;))

limeyx · on Sept 17, 2015

How many VW Bugs is that ?