Should the community archive open model weights in case Hugging Face gets restricted?
Tall-Ad-7742 · reddit · 2026-10-26
A Reddit user warns the community is overly dependent on Hugging Face for model downloads and asks whether torrent-based archiving could preserve access if HF becomes unavailable or starts removing models. Open questions: whether restrictions would accelerate torrent distribution, whether individuals seeding their own collections beats coordinated community efforts, how much storage to invest in, and which models (popular, small, or specific quants) to prioritize. Torrent mirrors currently lack many important models.
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