It'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 ma...
2021-07-15 00:07:05 +0000 UTC
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Most folks know, but in case you don't follow the discord Z+ has now racked a new server and is awaiting hookup before going online with new service offerings.
2021-04-01 23:30:11 +0000 UTC
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We're getting closer to upgrading the Z+ network. Some cute pics will be posted on our Subscribe Star.
Thanks again, your support is valuable.
2021-02-04 23:08:53 +0000 UTC
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I've been quite busy lately but we're finally moving forward (and nearing a foreseeable end) with the new server build and deployment for our continued expansion.
There's a lot more in discord, and those of you who were around for Ponyville Ciderfest Online would be quick to note that I've made some changes to Spikebot and have ...
2020-12-08 00:49:34 +0000 UTC
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- This year's Anniversary Stream will be happening Oct 10th 2020 @ 2:30PM EDT.
- TPA is currently $100 short per month to run at current capacity. I've updated the donation goals to reflect this.
- TPA is not in immediate danger.
- Discord ping includes some other info ...
2020-09-28 00:44:44 +0000 UTC
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TPA has grown considerably over the years. I just want to tell everyone thanks for putting up with myself in building up TPA to this level.
First I'd like to take a moment to thank an anonymous donor that made much of this possible, at least to happen this fast.
Change #1 - All EU servers are being decommissioned.
TP...
2020-08-16 22:52:16 +0000 UTC
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Besides me being lazy, there's a few things that'll be changing.
- The website will get an update eventually removing the banner at the top
- I'm moving away from Patreon.
The first is overdue, by like a year.
The second is because I don't agree with Patreon's removal of several friend's accounts.
I will (ev...
2020-05-28 23:04:38 +0000 UTC
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We've been in this together for quite some time, and I don't plan on stopping anytime soon.
I have had a few people question if we would cease operation, the answer to that at this time is a very loud "NO."
Work wise, everyone who contributes to the archive are remote in general, working wise isn't much of an issue...
2020-04-03 01:05:25 +0000 UTC
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With recent events that I have been expecting for a while a lot's changed and our awareness levels has increased quite a bit.
I want to start off with a brief but important reminder:
If you or someone needs help archiving or you think something should be archived please join the discord and bug me or someone else that'll ...
2019-11-22 06:19:42 +0000 UTC
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I've updated several things within the archive and am in the process of making some very large changes / quality of life improvements as well as working towards goals that should have been done months ago.
I have set up several Trello boards that I have already posted without pings in our discord servers announcement channel. ...
2019-09-08 02:42:13 +0000 UTC
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We're back up!
Small reminder that Spikebot is now live in The Pony Archive's shared discord server:
https://discord.gg/dGtwRph There's a new role in the discord server for patreons as well.
And the archive is in the process of being updated globally.
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2019-06-11 19:37:03 +0000 UTC
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The datacenter that houses our front-end proxy server(s) is offline at this time. The archive's backend is fine, and Spikebot's archiving is unaffected.
As a result of this, all front end sites hosted by the TPA network is offline including but definitely not limited to:
Project Vinyl
The Pony Archive
The Starchive
2019-06-11 03:42:51 +0000 UTC
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Just letting everyone know to check their messages, sent out a mass message for the updating of patron status on the website itself.
Patron roles are active on the discord now, get yours while it's hot and does absolutely nothing on the server.
We've successfully migrated the 12.6TB of pony videos on one section of t...
2019-04-06 13:40:09 +0000 UTC
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Work has begun on officially deploying the new server with 77TB of storage.
During this time you may see some blank pages or stuff may be "gone" entirely from the main site as stuff is transferred. This is due to me having to free up some space on a filled drive to compress a few large collections of tiny files. Nothing...
2019-03-09 16:07:56 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone I hope your ponyversary is going well!
The Pony Archive began in 2015 and officially launched in the summer of 2016. Since then I've been keen on archiving and trying to preserve the content that originally brought myself into the herd.
I also like to give back to the fandom who've collectively g...
2018-10-12 00:42:02 +0000 UTC
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New Archive Server Project.
Objective: Purchase a new server for the archive.
Reason: Our current server has run out of usable space, we have to rely on others and on unsafe cloud storage at the moment to continue to archive.
Server Brand: Quantagrid
Model: &...
2018-09-04 09:05:36 +0000 UTC
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The archive has been fully restored with some improvements.
First and foremost: NO DATA LOSS. The main server is back 100%.
Please note that you will continue to see the "server offline" message till Sunday 7/1/18. Join the discord if you need a link to it earlier. We're working on backing some of it up, but a full back up wi...
2018-06-29 00:36:48 +0000 UTC
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First and foremost, thanks to all those that donate monthly to the archive, it brings in enough to pay for hosting now as well as save up for future upgrades.
I don't believe it'd be fair to let Patreon charge you guys at the 1st of June with the site being offline as it is. I'd like to pause this page for 1 month so you guys won't be ...
2018-05-15 02:35:19 +0000 UTC
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I should have posted this earlier, but most people already hang around the discord server so they already know.
The current server had a motherboard failure but the drive integrity appears to be fine in short term bench testing. I'm currently working on getting a new motherboard to replace the one that failed.
2018-05-13 12:01:17 +0000 UTC
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Thanks to those that showed up, really had fun doing our panel Fandom Archival and Archeology.
There will be a video of the panel posted soon once I get home from the convention.
2018-04-01 17:32:31 +0000 UTC
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We've currently outgrown the current server by about 7TB. The current server has a 24TB raw volume that's really only usable to about 18TB. There's about 3-4TB of content spread across another series of servers. In short: We need a new space.
What's ahead: New server.
The planned server would cost around $3,300 to $3...
2018-01-31 21:12:57 +0000 UTC
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