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Heathen
September 2nd, 2009, 07:21 PM
4scrape was a website that collected, or "scrapes scraped", wallpapers and other big-ass pictures from 4chan and presented them in a searchable archive. Created in June '08(and killed July '09) by a Taro (or Hark, whatever), 4scrape used to take images from /w/, /wg/, and /hr/.


And now its dead.

Advancebo
September 2nd, 2009, 07:22 PM
why

Heathen
September 2nd, 2009, 07:25 PM
I guess hard drive failure drove him to just quit or something.
And RL getting in the way, etc.

You can download the torrent for all the wallpapers up until now. Its like 216GB though lol.

cheezdue
September 2nd, 2009, 07:26 PM
Thats most of my hard drive. D:

Heathen
September 2nd, 2009, 07:27 PM
ah, there was a bunch of problems with it also.


Cache for searches (potentially just post searches) is broken.
Threads need to be cached as a whole unit — assembling them from a 500,000-row table is too slow.
General consistency errors — there’s a bunch of images missing
The scraper likes to shit itself to keep things lively.
The backend would occasionally crash/spinlock
The JavaScript shit is a horrible mess.

Timo
September 2nd, 2009, 07:46 PM
4scrape has been gone for quite a while now :x http://www.4walled.org/ is apparently its replacement.

Heathen
September 2nd, 2009, 07:49 PM
but 4walled is trash

and 4scrape just went down.
it had a replacement site up for a short while and he killed that too.

BobtheGreatII
September 2nd, 2009, 08:28 PM
and 4scrape just went down.


Uh, no dude. Been down for quite a while. Old news bro.

legionaire45
September 2nd, 2009, 08:33 PM
Very old news.

Quite sad news but still old news.

Con
September 3rd, 2009, 01:36 AM
I am considering this torrent. I think I am crazy. Also, 4walled.