BetaArchive

BetaArchive is an online software preservation community, mostly known for its large software archive. It was founded on 2006-08-17 by Andrew Whyman following the demise of OSBetaArchive and has since then grown to be one of the largest pre-release software and abandonware repositories. The site consists of a forum board, an FTP server and a wiki. BetaArchive hosts over 35,000 releases in its almost 70 TB archive, which has dropped from over 100TB of releases and 50,000 releases. FTP access can be gained by registering on the forum and then contributing a release.

In 2008-12, the site received a large update dubbed "BetaArchive v2" with the switch from phpBB 2 to phpBB 3. in 2013-03, the development of BetaArchive v3 was announced, however, it has been postponed indefintely and version 2.1 was unveiled instead in 2013-09, mostly consisting of forum restructuring. In 2018-09 the BetaArchive Release Database, an online listing of all releases archived by the community, was publicly launched.