One person is trying to preserve the entirety of Miiverse
The end of Miiverse is quickly drawing near. Once November rolls in, the social networking service will be no more. A bunch of games will be impacted by its closure, but the community itself will also be shuttered.
Nintendo is allowing members to save their own posts. Miiverse as we know it will be gone, however. So what will happen to all of the lovely artwork and user posts created over the years?
Well, one person is trying to preserve it all. Twitter user Drastic Actions has created a program that is currently in the process of archiving everything.
Here’s a look at what’s been done so far:
The great art on Miiverse will be lost when it shuts down, so I'm writing an archiver to try and save it https://t.co/9J00TmgrB4 pic.twitter.com/KUmOJ4Fr7X
— Drastic Actions (@drasticactionSA) September 3, 2017
I have over 30,000 Splatoon drawings archived.
That goes back to late August, and it's only for the Japanese site. Oh boy. pic.twitter.com/5rfijfyjap
— Drastic Actions (@drasticactionSA) September 3, 2017
A subset of images I've gotten. Oh man. pic.twitter.com/KAcj6TmYoB
— Drastic Actions (@drasticactionSA) September 3, 2017
It never ends, it just keeps going and going and going. pic.twitter.com/w7q2sRKXIW
— Drastic Actions (@drasticactionSA) September 3, 2017
I've finally gotten to July 31st, over 57,000 items so far. That's _one region_ of _one game_. But looking it at the output, seems good. pic.twitter.com/ROVIZumb9A
— Drastic Actions (@drasticactionSA) September 3, 2017
And if you got this far: The goal of this project is to get _everything_ from Miiverse, not just drawings. I'm looking at the whole site.
— Drastic Actions (@drasticactionSA) September 3, 2017
So thankfully, Miiverse won’t be entirely lost to time. All of the art – and eventually posts – should be archived for everyone to see in the future.
