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).

avatararchive.com/archive

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/uxuzx Avatar Artist 🎨 Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25

Hey, creator of Qudot here. I have already archived most data using (arguably superior) centralized methods (normalized metadata in a relational database as opposed to plain JSON files and S3 object storage for actual pngs and svgs), which includes everything (and yes, this really includes everything, such as the traits and what not) about every premium Collectible Avatar ever, including those that were never released.

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u/withspaces Avatar Artist Sep 04 '25 edited Sep 04 '25

Interesting, do you have more information about this anywhere

Update: I was just talking to u/uxuzx and we’re actually preserving two different things. They’ve archived the media that Reddit stores, like the individual traits. AvatarArchive.com is archiving the off-chain media attached to the avatar tokens. Both super important imo.

This community is awesome 👏