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Defunct Miiverse Posts Archived by Team of Users

Miiverse may be dead, but its contents have now been preserved for posterity by a team of internet archivists.

Ozzie Mejia

January 3, 2018 2:30 PM

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Back in November, Nintendo users bid farewell to Miiverse, the social media network that ran across Nintendo's Wii U console. But with the Nintendo Switch taking off in ways that the Wii U could never dream of, the time came to discontinue the Miiverse service. But while the social network went dark in November, a team of intrepid users found a way to preserve it for future generations to browse.

Eurogamer observed the works of Archive Team, self-described "rogue archivists" who took it upon themselves to save as many Miiverse posts as humanly possible. Their work is available through a website called Archiverse, containing over 133 million Miiverse posts. The posts are all searchable and contain replies, screenshots, drawings, avatars, profiles, and even deleted and hidden posts.

While Archive Team wasn't able to recover absolutely everything, citing posts that Miiverse admins had nuked into orbit and profiles that were hidden by users, Archiverse proves to be the most complete collection of Miiverse activity available on the internet. It's quite an impressive and something that should prove to be a fascinating historical time capsule down the road.

Okay, everyone, I have now launched https://t.co/K3Hy7fLwKp, your guide into the Miiverse Archives!

216,901,986 Replies
133,003,599 Posts
75,955,135 Screenshots
72,135,190 Drawings
8,278,693 User Profiles

That's nearly 17 terabytes of data saved by @archiveteam! pic.twitter.com/K0oFtuIIKn

— Drastic "MAGfest" Actions (@drasticactionSA) January 3, 2018

Ozzie Mejia

Senior Editor

Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?