1911user
Veteran Member
Last Thursday archive.org was down most of the day. They made one change that destroyed the search methods I've been using to find movies. They also deleted many obvious movie uploads. I'm not sure what else they might have done.
The core issue is I can no longer see who favorited a movie. From that, I would work backwards to see what they had posted or their other favorites. If I like one movie they have favorited, there is a decent chance I'd like others they show an interest in. Multiply that by 10's of different people and that has been the basis for finding movies to post here for more than a year. It was a very effective spider search method. They could be closing a privacy hole for their members or stopping people like me; why doesn't matter.
Most movies now posted use cryptic titles as a sort of camouflage. When you see the cryptic title, you might be able to mentally descramble the name. However to search by name would be hundreds of possibilities just for a single movie title with no certainty of finding it. Finding a lot of movies searching by name just doesn't work well.
I can't continue as before. It would be very hard to find good new sources and they've deleted many of my old ones. I tried joining archive.org but still couldn't see personal favorites like before. It is very easy and probably a useful thing to do if you want to check out many of their e-books or see member-only content. All it takes is choosing a username and providing a real email addy (they send a verification email); no real name or address is required.
I was going to wait until tomorrow night to post this, but I've known since Monday night what happened. Since Monday, I have not come up with reasonable (to me) alternatives. I don't deal well with youtube commercials and will not post their DRM movies with ads. Others can choose to do it, I won't. Also you can't save those type of movies from youtube and saving movies has been an important part (to me) of posting the movies. There are some normal movies, mostly older, on Youtube that are good and can be saved. Housecarl did a good job of finding them.
There are other places on the web that show movies and TV, but I have no idea what they put on your computer in return for showing a video to you. Others can post that if they understand it. I won't risk adding spyware to people's computers. Is it a big risk? I don't know. Also there is the issue of saving.
This weekend, I will post the decent links I have to share, including some provided to me by other members (thank you). I do ask (insist?) that the really good archive.org links continue to stay in the member-only areas. It will be very hard to find good new sources at archive.org so I really do not want to lose the ones I know about now. Posting them all over Main will make it much more likely for them to be discovered then deleted (and anger me in the process).
I didn't plan the changes at archive.org, but they forced a break from posting movies.
It would be wonderful if someone else had an idea and continued to share with TB.
People are interested, but a new solution is required.
The core issue is I can no longer see who favorited a movie. From that, I would work backwards to see what they had posted or their other favorites. If I like one movie they have favorited, there is a decent chance I'd like others they show an interest in. Multiply that by 10's of different people and that has been the basis for finding movies to post here for more than a year. It was a very effective spider search method. They could be closing a privacy hole for their members or stopping people like me; why doesn't matter.
Most movies now posted use cryptic titles as a sort of camouflage. When you see the cryptic title, you might be able to mentally descramble the name. However to search by name would be hundreds of possibilities just for a single movie title with no certainty of finding it. Finding a lot of movies searching by name just doesn't work well.
I can't continue as before. It would be very hard to find good new sources and they've deleted many of my old ones. I tried joining archive.org but still couldn't see personal favorites like before. It is very easy and probably a useful thing to do if you want to check out many of their e-books or see member-only content. All it takes is choosing a username and providing a real email addy (they send a verification email); no real name or address is required.
I was going to wait until tomorrow night to post this, but I've known since Monday night what happened. Since Monday, I have not come up with reasonable (to me) alternatives. I don't deal well with youtube commercials and will not post their DRM movies with ads. Others can choose to do it, I won't. Also you can't save those type of movies from youtube and saving movies has been an important part (to me) of posting the movies. There are some normal movies, mostly older, on Youtube that are good and can be saved. Housecarl did a good job of finding them.
There are other places on the web that show movies and TV, but I have no idea what they put on your computer in return for showing a video to you. Others can post that if they understand it. I won't risk adding spyware to people's computers. Is it a big risk? I don't know. Also there is the issue of saving.
This weekend, I will post the decent links I have to share, including some provided to me by other members (thank you). I do ask (insist?) that the really good archive.org links continue to stay in the member-only areas. It will be very hard to find good new sources at archive.org so I really do not want to lose the ones I know about now. Posting them all over Main will make it much more likely for them to be discovered then deleted (and anger me in the process).
I didn't plan the changes at archive.org, but they forced a break from posting movies.
It would be wonderful if someone else had an idea and continued to share with TB.
People are interested, but a new solution is required.
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