The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/hai10 on 2025-01-27 00:45:06.
If there are LEGO fans on this subreddit, some of you probably know Brickshelf, a classic website that since 1998 has hosted various LEGO-related images (and some other formats): people's creations, LEGOLAND trip photos, instructions, forum banners and avatars, and what not. Obviously an important piece of early 2000s web and real digital artifact.
Sadly, as Brickshelf's creator Kevin M Loch has passed away (in fact, happened in 2024), the Brickshelf homepage now says that the site will be shut down on March 1. A month is left, so I summon all the hoarders and archivists able to save the day. I could help but I've got only 500GB of free space left on my hard drive.
The structure: Brickshelf is an old school website consisting of just ~5 million files (mostly photos) + approx. the same amount of photo previews, and a total of ~5.5 million html pages (folders, subfolders and individual file pages) which host these files, so it's all pretty manageable I guess.
Since Kevin Loch was an avid webmaster and had other projects, it would be great to back up not only Brickshelf but all other Kevin's sites too. Here's the links I was able to find:
https://kevinloch.com/
https://www.n3kl.org/
https://bsrender.io/
https://nensus.com/
The legacy should live on!