archive.li problems

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So from here, archive.fo is down: https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/archive.fo. And I can't reach it either on my PC laptop but noticed others did. I flushed DNS and set DNS to quad 8s/quad 4s. Still didn't come up. I fired up torbrowser, which gave me an specialized archive.fo link that also does onion sites. Then I started a VPN (pointed at a US site) and archive.is came right up.

My question to all, is 1) is this happening to any of you out there and 2) does this sound like an ISP issue? NOTHING pisses me off more than ISPs presumably censoring things like archive tools. What I want is for my ISP to send me to urls period and until yesterday this was not an issue. Are there other things I should be trying? Or does this definitively sound like an ISP issue?
 
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Both load fine for me.

I contacted the isp. They said they do not block. I tried archive.is on my phone on LTE (I've never visited there via mobile) and get the same timeout error. It's only via Tor or VPN that I can get it to load. Are you behind a proxy yourself?
 
I have definitely seen problems. It's been off and on for a few days now. While there doesn't seem to be any obvious reason for it, it's the same as it sounds like you're experiencing: the site just times out. I do wonder if someone is attacking the site intermittently or something.
 
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sometimes ISP's have trouble routing and certain ranges of sites IP's become temporarily unavailable. An example, would be, a week or so ago, everyone with cox internet in the US was unable to access the Blizzard entertainment authentication site for like 12 hours. webarchive.org is an alternative
 
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sometimes ISP's have trouble routing and certain ranges of sites IP's become temporarily unavailable. An example, would be, a week or so ago, everyone with cox internet in the US was unable to access the Blizzard entertainment authentication site for like 12 hours. webarchive.org is an alternative

Which I suspected until I tried to access the site via LTE--different subnet altogether, different device--and got the same timeout error. And as I've never accessed it via phone, there wasn't a cookie causing the problem. Can anyone confirm that they can access this straight through without a proxy?
 
archive .is sometimes works for me. It can work when archiving most websites; Twitter is usually the site where archive.is has errors. Sometimes I can get a Twitter archive with archive .li
 
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archive .is sometimes works for me. It can work when archiving most websites; Twitter is usually the site where archive.li has errors. Sometimes I can get a Twitter archive with archive .li

I tried archive with the .is, .li, .fo prefixes. It looks like the same site just as kiwifarms.net and kiwifarms.is are. All three failed outside a proxy, but in tor, the archive.is link resolved back to archive.fo; the VPN one stayed at archive.is.
 
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I am almost certain they have multiple servers and some odd load balancing going on. If you connect from different regions to archive.is you will get different addresses back.

Try archive.is, archive.vn, archive.today.

Also, desktop Twitter archives problematic right now. Trying archiving from mobile.twitter.com.
 
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I was just done archiving quite a few things, and most of the archive's servers were working properly. I'm guessing you are having problems archiving Twitter. Try archiving things through mobile.twitter.com instead of just regular twitter.com. Archive.is seems to automatically redirect there when archiving, and when it fails to do so adding "mobile." to Twitter links seems to do the trick.
 
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