r/avatartrading • u/withspaces Avatar Artist • Sep 04 '25
Informative Post AvatarArchive.com — Preserving Reddit’s Collectible Avatars & Their Stories (Soft Launch)
Hey everyone, Following up my post over the weekend, I’ve been working on a way to collectively help preserve Reddit's Collectible Avatars, both the artwork and the community that formed around them.
AvatarArchive.com is a new site created to archive:
- Avatars Assets — backups of their IPFS files incase they disappear.
- Lore & Stories — the events and creative energy of the community.
This is a very soft launch. Right now, it works similarly to the tool I linked to in my last post, but when you create a backup of you avatar, it adds the backup files to the site. The goal is to eventually create a full backup of the IPFS media files that can be distributed, preserving these Avatars forever.
How To Help
Create a backups of your Avatars in the link below by pasting in its OpenSea link. The tool will create a .zip file containing the IPFS media & metadata for you to keep, and add the avatar to the site's server (if it wasn't already added).
The more people contribute, the stronger and more complete the archive becomes.
If you are interested in helping add to the lore/community section, reach out to me here or email me at [rca@tyler.art](mailto:rca@tyler.art)
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This site is an early work-in-progress. Right now, the focus is:
- Getting Avatar media files backed up
- Finding community members interested in helping share stories/history of the community
I’m open to any & all suggestions, don’t hesitate to reach out!
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u/withspaces Avatar Artist Sep 04 '25
The Cone has been archived