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6 YEARS! (And the feeling of impending doom.)
🕑 Added 2021-07-15 00:07:05 +0000 UTCIt's been 6 years! More importantly, YouTube is removing all unlisted videos from 2017 and before and they will become inaccessible after July 23rd.
What a non-gift for our 6 year anniversary!
It has been 6 awesome years though, and there are dozens of active users with TPA that make sure we can archive as much as we can find in our limited time.
I wanted to thank all of my supporters through the years for the fun times. It means a lot not only to myself, but to so many people who stumble upon The Pony Archive and the other sites that are now hosted under Z+. We've gotten a lot of chances already to raise awareness about archives and their importance. A thanks goes out to all of the conventions out there, even the ones TPA hasn't had a presence at.
Going forward is going to take a lot of patience and hard work now that TPA and Z+ have grown. We've done it before and we'll keep on doing it.
Some important updates with The Pony Archive:
- The Pony Archive's "new" server (it's almost 3 years old now?) is actually filling up. We've got another 5TB of space before it's completely filled. This means that we're actually going to need a bigger server sooner rather than later.
- This means that eventually I'll have to do a fundraiser to get enough money to afford HDD's to rack. There'll be more info about this fundraiser in August. With the price of hard drives this is going to hurt my personal wallet too most likely.
- We'll need some other parts for the new server, but I already have quite a bit prepared for the next unit unless I find something that works really well in-budget.
Some important updates for Spikebot:
- Spikebot has been updated once again to a newer version with a few new features and tricks.
- Spikebot needs another refactor eventually but right now works just fine, a refactor would improve speeds further but... it's not exactly needed yet.
Some important updates for Z+:
- Several code bases in-use in the Z+ network have been updated.
- Several Z+ network sites have had their anniversaries recently, with Project Vinyl just behind TPA in age at 5 years.
- Z+ VPS hosting is in closed beta with 10 private clients! Progress!
- Z+ Now has a matrix server, available from the discord right now.
- Lots of automation scripts have been made.
- There are a few upcoming projects for Z+
New project? NEW PROJECT?!
Introducing Qroxy, a Quest Compatible media proxy for use with VRChat.
- Media request caching.
- Headset restriction bypass.
- High reliability redirection.
- Low bandwidth for host server.
Qroxy is expected to be publicly available by the 21st of July in an open beta. Qroxy is fully open source.
