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This is a very important reason why books, in general, contain better information that websites. On websites, people care a lot less about the correctness of th

This is a very important reason why books, in general, contain better information that websites. On websites, people care a lot less about the correctness of the information. You can just update stuff later (of course, this doesn't always happen). Also, sites are a very volatile medium. I often bookmark pages with interesting information to read later, and it inevitably happens once in a while that a site went down and I just can't find the information anymore.

concernedctzn 9y ago
I have this problem too, thankfully archive.org has been able to resurrect most of the text based sites I bookmarked ages ago. Such an invaluable resource.
rahiel 9y ago
> Also, sites are a very volatile medium. I often bookmark pages with interesting information to read later, and it inevitably happens once in a while that a site went down and I just can't find the information anymore. I had the same experience and that's why I made a browser extension that archives pages when you bookmark them. (https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror)
- kbenson 9y ago
  Maybe something that archives to IPFS would be interesting. As things are marked as interesting, they are both archived and distributed based on interest.
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- j_s 9y ago
  I collected a list of ~15+ archival tools on a discussion of Wallabag last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14686882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14686882 Happy to discover yours!
  - ernsheong 9y ago
    Here's one more! https://www.pagedash.com https://www.pagedash.com Launching soon. We use a browser extension to mine your current tab on a click of a button!
- jandrese 9y ago
  I still have my bookmarks.html file I started building in 1995, but almost everything in it has rotted away. It's a shame too because a lot of the stuff in there would still be useful or interesting, but nobody wants to pay even a nominal fee to keep it online.
Crontab 9y ago
> I often bookmark pages with interesting information to read later, and it inevitably happens once in a while that a site went down and I just can't find the information anymore. I've recently had this problem with some online fiction that I had bookmarked. Now, I was able to recover thanks to the Wayback Machine, but I really shouldn't depend on that. I should really put some thought into archiving pages I like or getting a Pinboard account.

concernedctzn 9y ago

I have this problem too, thankfully archive.org has been able to resurrect most of the text based sites I bookmarked ages ago. Such an invaluable resource.

rahiel 9y ago

> Also, sites are a very volatile medium. I often bookmark pages with interesting information to read later, and it inevitably happens once in a while that a site went down and I just can't find the information anymore. I had the same experience and that's why I made a browser extension that archives pages when you bookmark them. (https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror https://github.com/rahiel/archiveror)

kbenson 9y ago
Maybe something that archives to IPFS would be interesting. As things are marked as interesting, they are both archived and distributed based on interest.
- deleted 9y ago
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j_s 9y ago
I collected a list of ~15+ archival tools on a discussion of Wallabag last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14686882 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14686882 Happy to discover yours!
- ernsheong 9y ago
  Here's one more! https://www.pagedash.com https://www.pagedash.com Launching soon. We use a browser extension to mine your current tab on a click of a button!
jandrese 9y ago
I still have my bookmarks.html file I started building in 1995, but almost everything in it has rotted away. It's a shame too because a lot of the stuff in there would still be useful or interesting, but nobody wants to pay even a nominal fee to keep it online.

Crontab 9y ago

> I often bookmark pages with interesting information to read later, and it inevitably happens once in a while that a site went down and I just can't find the information anymore. I've recently had this problem with some online fiction that I had bookmarked. Now, I was able to recover thanks to the Wayback Machine, but I really shouldn't depend on that. I should really put some thought into archiving pages I like or getting a Pinboard account.