Seems like 1Fichier finally carried through on their promise of mass deleting files from the account. They've deleted about 66% of the files on the account, as for which ones, it seems fairly random. I've managed to save a fair portion onto another account, but I'll need to update the URLs here.
I've just go a warning on another 1Fichier account with using too much space (currently around 29.5TB). I'll probably try moving some off, but I suspect this will reach a point where I'll just stop being bothered and let the files die off. If anyone's interested in trying to save them though, I can consider dumping a list of links.
It also used to be that some people didn't like to use credit cards on the Internet or didn't have credit cards. Don't know to what extent that's true these days.
But that's why AT is great. You just have to keep up with new releases as they come out.
There is a more reliable archiving system that AT also sends their files to called Usenet. Stuff there is expected to be available for 5 years, probably. But you have to subscribe to a Usenet service provider to access. Wiki Usenet for details, if you're interested.
Some might have access to Usenet through a school network.
Why a whole batch would be unavailable: I think it is due to when the files were processed. Files processed at the same time tend to have the same problem, that's been my experience. So when part of a batch is unavailable with Direct links usually the whole batch is unavailable.
The server isn't down. Even though the K-On listed below doesn't work for me right now either, here's a random show where the Direct link still works for me right now: https://animetosho.org/view/shoujo-tac...kv.n819911
But that's always how it's been with the Direct links: If they work for what you want, great, but if they don't, they don't.
It's probably pretty impossible to archive 120GB per day for several years.
Does AniDex have an API? I've always scraped pages directly. Anyway, it appears that they've removed the need for Javascript to browse the site. Which is a nice touch, but unfortunately breaks all my scrapers, so I'll need to update those to deal with the changes.
I leave it here, I don't have the skills and the motivation to continue. Thanks for your advice. My only request is that the AniDex issue can be solved ASAP.
10/08/2017 16:50 — RamenSub