Hey, folks -- I come bearing news that, at the moment, seems pretty bad. I check the datpiff archive frequently for research purposes. Up to yesterday, the archive stood at just over 365,000 tapes. As of 3:32 AM on September 25, 2024, the archive is now at 146,951 items. More concerningly, the specific page for Datpiff's account is currently displaying the message "this patron has not uploaded any items yet. This page was not like this the last couple of times I checked it.
Now, this may just be a technical error that resolves itself soon, so if the archive is restored soon, I'll gladly take the L for this post. But anyone keeping up with the Datpiff situation can attest that the site has refused to update anyone about the archive, its mobile app, the status of tapes that had yet to be uploaded, etc. The general disregard shown by Datpiff gives me little reason to believe that they might address the matter; hopefully I am proven wrong, but if there is something you have been thinking of looking for on the archive, you should do that search sooner, rather than later.
I'll leave this link to a previous post about the archive's previous size, as archive seems to exempt itself from the wayback machine..