There are things like search.yc, the thing with hacker news is I'm sure if interest is maintained and quality doesn't go down over the long term many people wil

There are things like search.yc, the thing with hacker news is I'm sure if interest is maintained and quality doesn't go down over the long term many people will roll their own archive formats for it. If people saved most of the random junk on geocities I'd think that many people would be interested in preserving what's here.