- A 600 GB corpus of paywalled scholarly sources was shared on Reddit’s r/DataHoarder, offering a partial alternative to Sci-Hub for open-access research.  
- Participants debated practical ways to mirror or distribute Sci-Hub’s ~50 TB corpus, weighing tape cartridges, DVDs, and other low-cost duplication strategies for local propagation.  
- The “paperbloat” project—an effort to analyze and reduce academic publishing redundancy—was recalled, with one participant wondering why work on it had stalled.  
- The channel’s public logs were temporarily unavailable, prompting discussion about archival continuity and the need for reliable long-term storage of conversation history.  
- Overall, the day’s dialogue centered on preserving and decentralizing scientific knowledge, highlighting both technical hurdles (storage size, bandwidth) and social ones (coordination, motivation).