Hello explorers. It is a (somewhat) glorious day. For the past few months, I have been coaxing the machine spirit of the array out of it's archaic head-required Auto-It frankenstein script that was used from 2016-2018 into a modern, headless python script. That is not to say it has been modernized: quite the contrary. This is about as old school as you can possibly be in 2025 but here it is: BBWChan's original homegrown IRC-based archive-and-retrieval system: back online for the first time since April 2018. Basic connection and usage is show in the video. Now. A few caveats. For the first few weeks, the array is NOT sharing it's main database. Instead, it will be sharing the "PURGE" database. After I finished re-coding, I took a look at what the array had accumulated over it's runtime, and identified about 512GB of content that I simply do not care to share/store anymore. We're talking smallfats that I simply don't respect, models who never got off the ground, models who transitioned to onlyfans and now coomer.su covers their content, objectively ugly models, content which was only transiently related to fat (pregnant, tits, expansion, etc), models who have died, models whose content was filmed in the 260p cell-phone era, models whose content is boring and shows little to no development over time, etc etc. The list goes on. I have attached the purge database so that you can check to see if there is anything in there you'd actually be interested enough in to bother connecting to IRC in this day and age, but, after a few weeks of testing this new system, this purge content will be completely deleted, and the main database 2.5TB of primo content will be re-shared. Secondly, if you've been around along enough to even remember the array (you are old now), you might remember that eventually part of the reason it shut down was abuse. It was never meant to be a way to get everything from a specific model, just a way to check out a file or two, fill in a missing piece of a personal collection, or see what other people were interested in: yet abuse persisted. This version has multiple levels of anti-abuse protection, and currently does not require registration on the IRC server to use (so you can easily connect with any web, mobile, or desktop client and use it right away). However, I will be monitoring, and if I see abuse, I will institute that requirement. As of now, all users are allowed 5GB per day in requests (though you can of course download other people's requests without limits with "recent"), from a conservative and may be adjusted total of 512GB/day allowed to be uploaded to litterbox (so that hopefully we can continue to use litterbox as the backend as it allows command line uploads without an account). What better way to test the new script, and give these files, which someone took the time to share at some point and I took the time to store for some reason, a proper sendoff, than announce the array's relaunch out of the blue on a random Wednesday afternoon, sharing the worst of the content available so that it doesn't get overwhelmed. Have fun, let me know if there's any improvement that can be made from a user experience point of view.