TL:DR; The admin for archive.today appears to have dropped off the face of the earth — in every possible way. Zero internet presence since March 2023 is the most recent.

The site has been having glitches and downtime (see below).

Speculation: I’m worried the bills are going unpaid and the site may be SHUT DOWN SOON by its hosting provider.

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I have his name, and found his LinkedIn profile.

I also found the corporation he cofounded. He used to be listed on its website. Now he is gone.

Nobody can tell me anything.

I am increasingly finding the site unreliable. For example, it will give a default “Welcome to nginx!” page, whenever I try to save websites.

——— This has been happening more and more. Or the site will get hit with a DDoS attack. and be offline/unreachable for hours. ———

The (unrelated) company he cofounded and was CEO of… apparently he appears to no longer be with.

His archive.is Tumblr (blog), email, etc all appear to be in hibernation since March of this year (2023). He has not responded to any of my emails, DMs via Tumblr, nor approved any of my posts/comments (nor anyone else’s) on his tumblr blog.

REQUEST: In your comments, please add

• FLOSS crowd-sourced alternatives which don’t have to rely on a central authority / single point of failure

• any info you may have about what has happened — or other details.