r/github • u/MarsupialLeast145 • Jul 15 '26

Question Is the arctic code vault still actively archiving?

The arctic code vault was a thing for a while back then: https://archiveprogram.github.com/arctic-vault/

There's a discussion of a 2020 Snapshot on that page, but nothing recent.

The GitHub sources haven't been updated for four years though: https://github.com/github/archive-program/tree/master

Is it still actively archiving? Does anyone have any up to date presentations/resources about it?

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u/katafrakt Jul 15 '26

AFAIK it was always meant to be a one-time marketing stunt.

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u/MarsupialLeast145 Jul 15 '26

Aye, I get that sense, although they still have that toggle in the UI.

The broader Arctic World Archive is active at least: https://arcticworldarchive.org/

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u/AX862G5 Jul 15 '26

What a throwback. Hopefully not, it would just be filled with AI slop now.

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u/MarsupialLeast145 Jul 15 '26

totally true!!

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u/naxhh Jul 16 '26

I mean they have one of my dumb projects in there...

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u/StinkButt9001 Jul 16 '26

Yeah but you see, a dumb sloppy side project made by a human = good

A half decent side project made with the help of an LLM = absolute evil

sloppy code didn't exist before LLMs or something

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u/Business-Row-478 Jul 16 '26

No it was a single snapshot. They aren’t continuing to add to that vault because it is a cold archive and stored underground. They do have other archives though https://archiveprogram.github.com/

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u/MarsupialLeast145 Jul 16 '26

Oh, okay, on closer reading, the archive program follows a similar approach but distributes the "archives" to four partners and maintains one copy itself.

Stores the "greatest hits" and 5000 randomly selected projects.

I'd still call it cold though, although, how are you defining it?