Not all old videos are recovered yet

The recovery effort is ongoing. Many more videos likely exist in various archives, including the Common Crawl dataset (the same data AI companies use for training). However, working through Common Crawl has been beyond the scope of this project so far.

What else needs to be restored?

• Millions of comments: We have comments data from the archives, but haven't restored them yet. This is a priority for future development.
• User avatars: We've recovered some profile pictures from the archives and the goal is to restore those as well.

You may contribute additional archives (e.g. via Zip file) or digital archaeology efforts through the Support page.