Preservetube - A Youtube archival site.

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I don't think that's really worth all the compute.. Looking at the size and title should be enough to weed most of them out.
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Anything with "X hours" in the title should be blocked. Very few non-slop videos have that in their title with the exception of cooking videos of the form "24 hour Y" (where the "24 hour" refers to the time spent cooking, not the video length) and videos about things like the 24 Hours of Le Mans. I'm sure there are other keywords that are common in slop video title and uncommon in legitimate video titles.

It would be better not to have a time limit as useful videos like interviews are often an hour long or more, and with good compression they're usually not too large because the video is mostly static.
 
quaawaa said:
Anything with "X hours" in the title should be blocked. Very few non-slop videos have that in their title with the exception of cooking videos of the form "24 hour Y" (where the "24 hour" refers to the time spent cooking, not the video length) and videos about things like the 24 Hours of Le Mans. I'm sure there are other keywords that are common in slop video title and uncommon in legitimate video titles.
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I don't even know why they exist when there's the right click > loop option available.
 
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PreserveTube has reached a point of insane unsustainability. It's making nothing, and it's starting to cost more and more. I wouldn't mind paying for it if the videos were actually being watched, but there are tens of TBs of videos that have never been watched, ever.

The archive is at 65TB now, and I'm starting to understand why Archive.org stopped accepting YouTube video uploads. People are archiving hundreds and hundreds of videos while watching nothing. There are more videos being archived than watched, and that has to change, or I don't see a reason to keep pumping money into this.

This doesn't mean it's disappearing tomorrow. If it ever comes to that, there'll be a proper month-long notice period, but it's not outside the realm of possibility.

If anyone has any ideas on how this can be worked on, I'd be more than open to them.
 
you're not really dedicated to the art of archiving
 
PreserveTube said:
If anyone has any ideas on how this can be worked on, I'd be more than open to them.
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Off the top of my head, in order of severity:
- Ban archive botting/batch uploading
- Put unwatched/inactive videos on notice publicly for others to pull in their local instance, before deleting them from your servers
- Some ratio of hosting to uploading to be able to upload to the service.

I doubt your purpose was to create a youtube mirror, and data hoarders tend to hoard data that they have no immediate, if ever, use for.
 
How much money do you need? I can send a little XMR
 
I don’t know what your hardware is like but maybe look into one of those tape storage thingies and only have the videos be readily accessible for like a month. Afterwards they would go into long term storage to be restored to the main website when a video gets taken down from YouTube itself.

I’ll send you a couple bucks for archiving my favorite retarded canadian.
 
Rather than just a deletions page, have a "quality decrease" page which is much more aggressive about which videos are included, which drastically lowers the quality of the video to take up 5x-10x less space.

If someone is upset about the quality loss, they are free to re-upload the video, which replaces the low quality version with standard quality again and resets the timer on decreasing its quality again for a few months. Or people can email you about things they really care about to get added to an exceptions list which is never reduced in quality.
 
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