Website (https://www.shroomery.org/) and Forum (https://www.shroomery.org/forums/) still around.

Actually this are very good, much better than original quality.

Thanks, posted some there.

Yeah, looks like it keeps changing :)

Historically irc has been used for many things. Chat is just one of its main purposes, but there is virtually no limitations what you can use it for especially with upcoming IRCv3 (https://ircv3.net/)

I was talking about; https://lemmy.ml/c/opendirectories it shows page 404, and when I tried creating it it says already exists. So maybe it existed on lemmy.ml at one point and it was deleted or banned?

USENET (NZB) is different from IRC (XDCC), USENET has more content but useally paid, IRC is completely free and can be easier to automate.

The Eye archive is down since Nov/2025 and it dosn't seem to be coming back anytime soon. I think its more than hard drive failure. And even if it was hard drive failure its a very bad practice having a public facing website on same hard drive where you store your data.

I asked ChatGPT and here is the answer. I useally hate using too much AI, but when it comes to remembering scenes from movies or shows I had a good luck with it. So hopefaully this helps you find what you are looking for. By the looks of it, its correct.

Yes — you are remembering a real scene, and it is from a canonical X-Files mythology episode, not the Mandela Effect. Here’s the actual reference and where it happens: The Episode You’re Thinking Of The scene you’re describing — where information that someone wanted destroyed is preserved through the oral tradition of a Native American tribe — occurs in the mythology episode “Anasazi” (Season 2, Episode 25). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anasazi_%28The_X-Files%29)

In Anasazi, Mulder comes into possession of a secret, encrypted Defense Department tape containing explosive information about UFOs and government conspiracies. At one crucial moment, a Syndicate member asserts that the tribe’s elder, Albert Hosteen, has passed the relevant knowledge to many others by word of mouth, meaning it can’t be completely erased by burning the tape — unless “you kill every Navajo living in four states.” This is essentially the theatrical reveal you remember about information surviving through oral tradition.

This line has become somewhat iconic among fans because it underscores the durability of spoken knowledge versus fragile physical records — and it’s very much part of the official mytharc.

Why You Might Not Find It Easily:

• Anasazi isn’t a Monster-of-the-Week; it’s a mythology episode packed with plot twists and government conspiracy.
• Most episode summaries focus on the encrypted boxcar, Navajo code talkers, and the cliffhanger ending — the “oral tradition” line is in dialogue rather than plot synopsis, so it’s not always mentioned in episode guides or quick wikis.

Good to know thanks. I also noticed there is no c/opendirectories I tried creating it and it says already exists, but it only shows page 404. So not sure if it was removed or intentionally blocked.

There is a clone at https://gitee.com/clone_github/torzu