#rip amino

[toxic-potions-productions]

SPREAD THE WORD!! AMINO IS DEAD!

AMINO IS DEAD! SPREAD THE WORD!!

[goldenmortimer]

Do you miss Amino? Do you like Rick and Morty?

Well do I have the app AND community for you!

The Kyodo app functions and looks very similar to how Amino used to, and it is available on IOS and Android!

AND YOU SHOULD JOIN MY CIRCLE!

Join us at the Rick and Morty Circle! We encourage the growth of a healthy and cohesive community, and we look forward to your contribution to helping us make it a reality!

What we offer:

▪︎ Friendly Community: Meet new friends who you can share your interest in Rick and Morty with, we look forward to being able to bond with you.

▪︎ Creative Spaces: Share your art, writing, edits, or creations. We love seeing new art and people's ocs.

▪︎ Active Staff: Our leadership team is always here to help and keep things safe.

Quick Rules:

▪︎Keep it PG-13/appropriate for everyone on the public feeds and chats. It is deeply important that you follow Kyodo's guidelines as well as our own.

▪︎Be respectful to all members. We expect you as a member to keep things civil in our community.

▪︎As RaM can mention and delve into dark themes and topics, we expect you as a member to know how and when to properly tag sensitive topics in your posts. We want this space to stay safe for all fans.

Ready to join The Citadel? Click the link below!

Rick and Morty

WUBBA LUBBA DUB DUB!

[nyaza]

Archiving an entire social media platform (pt. 3)

Long time no see! In the last post I discussed a potential collaboration with SciOp as well as my collaboration with ArchiveTeam and my frustration with MeiliSearch, since then a lot happened so let me give you all an update as well as a small surprise!

What did you miss?

Another Collaboration?

In case you haven't kept up with the news on other platforms, I'm now in talks with the Open Doors Committee of the Organization for Transformative Works (the people behind Archive of Our Own) for a possible collaboration!! We had our first meeting in which we discussed the different possibilities for us working together and what it would take, so let's hope for the best! This would be a great opportunity and a massive help to me too.

New Database!

Originally, I was just using MongoDB because it was the easiest to just set up a scraper and start ingesting data, however, for an actual website deployment MongoDB would be very unsuited. It's slow, it's clunky and aggregations are really slow.

So I decided to switch to a new Database: ClickHouse! ClickHouse allows me to do extremely complex aggregations with full table scans in milliseconds, something that would take the old MongoDB deployed multiple dozens of seconds if not over a minute! This will also make the database easier to share when it's published to SciOp

New Infrastructure!

To be completely honest, I planned to just deploy everything locally in Europe and hope for the best with CDN response times in the US. Now, I've realized that this would be pretty suboptimal so I've decided to geo replicate the CDN and DB to the US as well as Europe, that way the site, when it finally releases, will hopefully be fast on both sides of the oceans!

Additionally, since I'm in the process of getting my hands on a full Terabyte of previously unarchived media I decided to invest some more into new storage infrastructure allowing me to host and cache the most accessed files directly instead of relying on the sometimes slow response times of the Internet Archive.

New Costs :c

Sadly, all of that infra didn't just come for free (even though one person actually provisioned a VM in Canada for me, allowing me to improve geo replication). I'll have to see the exact infra bill next month since I've done some restructuring and got massive discounts on my current infra thanks to my server host. The last infrastructure bill was 50€/mo. which is... quite a lot for a project that hasn't even released yet haha! In case you want to support my endeavor of keeping this free for everyone, you can donate to my buy me a coffee page

azalea

I like Pokémon and making things that other people enjoy

New Content!

This is probably one of the better news I have to give. I extracted a list of archived pages from the Internet Archive, that means, that my archive will be a joint archive of everything still available from Amino in any way!! About 2-3 Million new posts will be added to the archive in the next few days!!

Sneak Peek...

Bonus Content!

After the DB migration, I wanted to try out the new aggregation capabilities by doing some rudimentary analysis, all of the queries took <0.1s to compute!!

Because I didn't just want to do these calculations without sharing them, here are the Amino records brought to you by the Amino Archive!

🥇Amino Awards🥇

🥇 World's Biggest Yapper🥇

With over 13 million posts globally on Amino, the biggest yapper award goes to: BTS εµρɦσɾเαᵇᵘᵗᵗᵉʳ | JK

(important note: not all of these posts were archived due to limitations on Amino's end)

🥇 World's Most Entitled 🥇

Everyone knows that the amount of titles you can receive on your profile in a given community is limited, one person broke those limits and achieved a whopping 66 million titles on a single community!

🥇 World's Most Reputable 🥇

As a member I honestly thought level 20 was unreachable it just always seemed like way too high of a bar, but one person was so dedicated to not just get the 500K rep required for Level 20 but get nearly 200K additional rep!

🥇 World's Most Followed🥇

Anime Amino is at it again for world record contending profiles with the most followed profile on Amino with nearly 1 million followers!!! Now imagine all of those people genuinely following you on the street.

🥇 World's Most Likeable🥇

This person has proven time and time again that their content is likeable and deserves your attention (I've never once seen a post by them before archiving the platform lmao)

Thanks for your support! Please share this with people who you think might enjoy the Amino Archive to get the word out! Hope to release soon!

[yourhistoryteacherht]

A bit of a doodle dump

Have some art as I figure out my character !

[candyrainbowvomit]

Went on the wayback machine to gather these old (2021-22) drawings of my OCs from the fandom’s Amino days (rip)

[lestrange-or-xuxu]

sinceramente, só queria amino de volta pra ter o contato de uma pessoa e depois sim poderia morrer de vez

[iwishtogobacktothepast]

“I was upset about Lance’s ending too.”

No. You don’t understand.

I talk about this shit whenEVER I have the chance. The anger and frustration and resentment I have for his ending fuels me. Middle school me fought wars on Amino about this.

You were upset? Upset?

Being upset is when you don’t get picked to come on stage for a magic show. Being upset is something that you can forget about. The annoyance I have will never expire.

I will forever refuse to believe the ending that we see for Lance is his ending because he deserves so much MORE.

[sigyn-foxyposts]

I honestly don’t know how to feel about the current “Amino shutdown.” Is it permanent, or just another wave of panic among people?

If it truly is the end, then a part of me is grieving. I’ve lost what little I had left of my childhood all over again. This time, maybe for good. My first account from 2015 was falsely banned in 2019, and with that, the new one I made afterward, went so much art, so many stories, chats, and friends. I kept coming back, hoping the old friends I’d written down in my old notebook would want to reconnect but why would they? In a way, it’s also a time to celebrate that this dumpster fire of an app after the founders gave it away to a team that could careless about moderation. Filled with p0rn bots, spam, groomers, freaky RP buddies, unfair mods, and terrible memories of that one group chat you were invited to (or joined), might finally be gone.

Rest in peace, Amino. 2012 - 2025

It’s a shame that an app with so much potential for fandoms had to fall so low.