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I've been using Historious for the past few days and it has worked pretty well for me so far. We'll see how it works in a month or so when I need to find that R

I've been using Historious for the past few days and it has worked pretty well for me so far. We'll see how it works in a month or so when I need to find that Really Useful Article :) One thing that I did notice about the cache is that when qntm's server was getting hit hard, it was taking ~5-10 seconds to load the cached page. I think this is because even though you cache the page, it was trying to load the CSS, images, and js from qntm's server. Not that big of a deal, but I was expecting it to load faster.

StavrosK 16y ago
Fantastic, I'm glad it's been good so far. Finding that Really Useful Article is working very well, I've been using it for months and it's great :P Unfortunately, it can't not load the CSS/JS/images from the other site, as it would take some pretty involved spidering and a bit of additional code on our end to support caching CSS/JS/images, so it's not very much worth it. What is worth it, though, is building in a sort of version of Readability into the cached page. So you will be able to click "light view" or something and reach a well-formatted page with only the text for the bulk of the article. This is so you can read it better if the parent site is down (it'll load faster without CSS/JS) and you can read it on your mobile, kindle, etc.