Post by anomalocarididae on Apr 18, 2024 21:43:55 GMT
So. Recently, a popular Minecraft YouTuber claimed their NameMC page and blitzed every skin they've ever worn from their skin list, save for four.
This has prompted a skin archival effort, not just for this person, but for several other popular YouTubers.
I'm making this thread to spark discussion on how to find skins that may have been deleted from someone's NameMC page. Two (or more) heads are better than one.
Here's the strategies that I have been using so far to find and contribute skins:
- Looking for usernames on NameMC that have used one of that creator's skins, in the hopes that they've used multiple (this has been pretty reliable, if tedious)
- Searching Planet Minecraft or Skindex for reuploads (not that reliable)
- Looking at NameMC alternatives that archive name and/or skin changes (obtained some previously unavailable skins from there - skinmc, mcskinhistory)
- Looking for usernames on NameMC that have used one of that creator's skins, in the hopes that they've used multiple (this has been pretty reliable, if tedious)
- Searching Planet Minecraft or Skindex for reuploads (not that reliable)
- Looking at NameMC alternatives that archive name and/or skin changes (obtained some previously unavailable skins from there - skinmc, mcskinhistory)
- Extracting PNGs from cached Figura avatars (only usable in hyper specific scenarios, but interesting)
I'm particularly interested in finding skins from before 2014. There's a handful of strange skins that a certain YouTuber did use, but never were archived on NameMC.
