The sites are still all being archived through IPFS! The link of the latest archive was temporarily removed from the site profile, but it's coming back soon when we launch the new IPFS infrastructure (weeks not months). The first IPFS implementation was experimental, the next version is going to be pretty amazing. Stay tuned.
Using Neocities with IPFS has been really great for stress testing, as we have a lot of content and it links to itself in really weird ways. It's discovered some performance bottlenecks that the IPFS devs have been able to solve. The result is that the newest IPFS implementations are much, much better for massive datasets.
I'm a very strong believer in the distributed web. I think it's the future of static web content. People much smarter than me think it's the future of the dynamic web too, but I'm pretty single-focused on the static side of things right now.
You are doing a pretty huge service to the IPFS project just by trying to use it at this scale. I would love a blog post giving your experiences using it. One of my main complaints about IPFS is that it is very hard to have visibility into the project if you are not willing to follow all the github issues.
Using Neocities with IPFS has been really great for stress testing, as we have a lot of content and it links to itself in really weird ways. It's discovered some performance bottlenecks that the IPFS devs have been able to solve. The result is that the newest IPFS implementations are much, much better for massive datasets.
I'm a very strong believer in the distributed web. I think it's the future of static web content. People much smarter than me think it's the future of the dynamic web too, but I'm pretty single-focused on the static side of things right now.