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Slum: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor

by rand0mx1 on 1/13/25, 5:23 AM with 6 comments

• by fs0c13ty00 on 1/17/25, 3:58 AM

  Shadow libraries are truly a gift to humanity. Thanks to them, poor and starving people in developing countries like myself can access knowledge, escape poverty and thrive.

  It's great to have something like Slum. It makes accessing these libraries much easier and helps users check if a site is down for everyone or just for them. Plus, having the up-to-date links provided is super helpful!

• by zozbot234 on 1/17/25, 10:17 AM

  Does anyone know whether these shadow libraries also include substantial amounts of public-domain/legal content that has yet to be made available on the more legit sites? If so, we should definitely have some sort of organized effort to harvest all that so it can also be hosted legitimately and not be taken down due to the obvious issue of also having so much illegal content there.

• by thomasfedb on 1/17/25, 3:44 AM

  Is this dashboard something off the shelf?