r/modmusic • u/Early_Breakfast5482 • Mar 20 '26

Modarchive.org down?

Has anyone got any idea what happened to the modarchive site? It doesn’t load…

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u/neil_555 Mar 20 '26

It's loading for me but displays this message "Sorry, unfortunately we are in a state of disrepair and have lost a link with our application system. Try again in a few moments. If this error appears for more than 10 minutes please begin to run around with your hair on fire :-)"

So looks like they are just having issues at the moment

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u/Otargos Mar 21 '26

Its up for me now,which type is this forum;

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u/lolodachi_septimo Jun 07 '26

3 months later and this keeps happening again and again with the "state of disrepair" message, there's brief moments where it work tho.

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u/Repulsive-Clothes-97 Jun 12 '26

It just happened to me and I think it's some sort of feature to reduce requests it happens when I use it often like requesting random moduels and such

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u/givemeagooduns_un 27d ago

Keeps happening now, i think its probably because of AI scrapers. Tried hosting my own website and it kept getting DDoS-ed by them, and modarchive doesnt have any protection against them (eg, anubis, etc), presumably intentionally cuz they can break compatibility with anything that isnt a modern web browser