Anna’s new comment on this matter from reddit.

i think they mean they’ll provide direct access to data hosted by "third party"s (torrents?), without the captchas and throttling/rate limiting present when normally using the annas archive website

they’re asking for text extraction and dedup in exchange for providing datasets. at least publicly they claim this whole project is aimed at data preservation and wide access… they’re mostly aggregating/collecting data from other shadow libraries and even if they have malicious(?) intent, i’d say they’re a net positive since their code and datas are mostly(?) open sourced.

ah damn that sucks :(

really hate how these just suddenly disappear without any visible messages.

what is this discord server being removed? am i still able to enter it?

in case anyone wants to attempt backup, https://github.com/slatinsky/DiscordChatExporter-incrementalBackup this works very well

so you’re saying degrading quality while getting filthy rich by stealing everyone else’s work is better than archival efforts? not sure what your point is.