Random Question #1

[toothpastepancake]

 What's one piece of advice you'd give to people interested in hoarding data?

Intro

[doranwen]

Name/Pseudonym: Doranwen

Hobbies/interests: fandom (over 20 of them), Linux, education

Do you data hoard? If so, what do you hoard? I hoard fanfiction (I adore ao3downloader and fichub-cli), movies (generally TV films that didn't make big budget), my favorite TV shows, ebooks on a variety of subjects, a few odd programs and games, and I have 14 terabytes of Yahoo Groups data on my hard drives because I got sucked into saving it (see yahoogroups if you're curious about that project).

Why do you data hoard? Because you can't trust data to be available when you want it, sometimes because no one will sell it to you when you want it, but mainly because no one else saves it and then when you want it it's lost forever. Plus it's wonderful to have tons of stuff at your fingertips when the 'net is down; you might miss talking to someone but you have heaps you can watch or do.

Anything else? If you're interested in the Yahoo Groups project, it can use a ton of help tagging the groups so they can be organized properly (and uploaded to the Internet Archive). Not super hard, just takes the right kind of brain to love it.