Subsplease XDCC shutting down some weeks ago and now this.. RIP.

Guess I should look into torrenting/usenet/whatever still works.

damn i really hope they stay. this right after their spotify crawl and domain suspension doesn't inspire hope.

Quoted from their Discord guild

Hello everyone,

I wanted to share some personal news with you. After 15 years of hosting the Arutha Foundation with love and dedication, I've decided to embark on a new journey. The world is on fire and the universe is calling me to remember who I am. I have decided to listen to the music of the universe and take a leap of faith.

I'm grateful for the experiences and love shared with all of you. I'll give you some time to transfer data, and I'll pick a date in Q1 2026 to say goodbye to Arutha.

Thank you for your support and love throughout the years. You've been an integral part of my journey, and I'm thankful for that.

The XDCC/IRC bots will be going offline from the 31st of January. If there's anything you'd like to grab from there make sure you do so before then. The channel will remain as there are other bots still active on there.

Well this is sad :( This was my primary route of watching anime for the last few years. I guess there won't be many lost files since it's all mainly torrents though..

I have quite a few older Android devices, my main device runs 8(O) and I have some on 7(N), 6(M), 5(L). 4.1~4.4 support was already gone with Fenix, but now it seems like they got 5/6/7 as well. https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.mozilla.fennec_fdroid/

thought some people here may find this interesting :)

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/40623875

Hello. Me and a few friends are attempting to backup every files from AndroidFileHost, and we need some help in doing so.

For those who haven't heard of it, AndroidFileHost is a website that hosts various Android related files. It's one of the last surviving large Android related file serving sites, and holds a LOT of rare files especially for older android devices. (rip d-h.st) Despite being such a valuable site, it hasn't been well maintained for the past few years. Their Xitter account's last update is from around 2022, and the owner isn't replying to any e-mails. The site has been extremely unstable with various issues, most recently no file could ever be downloaded from it for about a month. Luckily, it has been (kind of) solved for now, and most (not all, about 20% files are still gone) files are back online now. However, it's clear this site needs a backup.

I have scraped their website which gives us the unique ID and MD5 hash for every files available on the site. Now, using this ID we can automate the process of requesting mirror links, downloading them and checking for integrity. (Please check an example file to understand how their system works -- https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=745425885120701975 )

The sum of every file sizes we know is roughly 180TB. It's impossible to download this on a single machine, so I've developed a "tracker" system to concurrently download multiple files using different machines. The tracker server keeps a list of every known file IDs (btw, it's 256,640 files which is a bit less than 277,467 displayed on their main page. I believe it includes deleted files as well but not sure atm), assign it to each clients that request and appropriately mark the file as downloaded. The system is pretty robust now, so our plan is working great. Except that our internet is pretty slow and we can't afford 180TB instantly.

By talking to friends and their friends, we've got quite a few people willing to help a bit here. Unfortunately many of them lack storage space, so they need to keep downloading from AFH and uploading to my server. This works for a few clients, but not for many. The "my server" here every client uploads to have 500Mbps internet, and it gets terribly slow pretty quick. Plus, 180TB of storage isn't really cheap and easy to afford.

Ideally, we need to get people with faster internet speeds (I'm in asia, so not the best place to fetch files from AFH servers mostly around Europe and America) and more storage space. If you have some bandwidth or storage to share, it would greatly help us.

I'm sorry if a post like this isn't welcomed here, if so please feel free to remove it. Thanks for reading this post.

P.S. Also worth checking out - related XDA thread https://xdaforums.com/t/did-anyone-else-notice-signs-of-androidfilehost-com-being-abandoned.4578561/ (I'm LegendOcta)

Hello. Me and a few friends are attempting to backup every files from AndroidFileHost, and we need some help in doing so.

For those who haven't heard of it, AndroidFileHost is a website that hosts various Android related files. It's one of the last surviving large Android related file serving sites, and holds a LOT of rare files especially for older android devices. (rip d-h.st) Despite being such a valuable site, it hasn't been well maintained for the past few years. Their Xitter account's last update is from around 2022, and the owner isn't replying to any e-mails. The site has been extremely unstable with various issues, most recently no file could ever be downloaded from it for about a month. Luckily, it has been (kind of) solved for now, and most (not all, about 20% files are still gone) files are back online now. However, it's clear this site needs a backup.

I have scraped their website which gives us the unique ID and MD5 hash for every files available on the site. Now, using this ID we can automate the process of requesting mirror links, downloading them and checking for integrity. (Please check an example file to understand how their system works -- https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=745425885120701975 )

The sum of every file sizes we know is roughly 180TB. It's impossible to download this on a single machine, so I've developed a "tracker" system to concurrently download multiple files using different machines. The tracker server keeps a list of every known file IDs (btw, it's 256,640 files which is a bit less than 277,467 displayed on their main page. I believe it includes deleted files as well but not sure atm), assign it to each clients that request and appropriately mark the file as downloaded. The system is pretty robust now, so our plan is working great. Except that our internet is pretty slow and we can't afford 180TB instantly.

By talking to friends and their friends, we've got quite a few people willing to help a bit here. Unfortunately many of them lack storage space, so they need to keep downloading from AFH and uploading to my server. This works for a few clients, but not for many. The "my server" here every client uploads to have 500Mbps internet, and it gets terribly slow pretty quick. Plus, 180TB of storage isn't really cheap and easy to afford.

Ideally, we need to get people with faster internet speeds (I'm in asia, so not the best place to fetch files from AFH servers mostly around Europe and America) and more storage space. If you have some bandwidth or storage to share, it would greatly help us.

I'm sorry if a post like this isn't welcomed here, if so please feel free to remove it. Thanks for reading this post.

P.S. Also worth checking out - related XDA thread https://xdaforums.com/t/did-anyone-else-notice-signs-of-androidfilehost-com-being-abandoned.4578561/ (I'm LegendOcta)

Since a few days ago I noticed some minor changes on mlmym (old.lemmy.sdf.org)

The logo on top left is low resolution, and the community info sidebar isn't shown by default.

Before: https://web.archive.org/web/20250127103600/https://old.lemmy.sdf.org/ After: https://web.archive.org/web/20250204090416/https://old.lemmy.sdf.org/

Does anyone know if this change was intended? At least I'm pretty sure the logo isn't.. Not sure where to report. thanks.