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Lesson I've long learned: never bookmark anything. Bookmarks are to temporarily remember a URL, not to archive content. If the content is important or meaningfu

by c3534l 7y ago

Lesson I've long learned: never bookmark anything. Bookmarks are to temporarily remember a URL, not to archive content. If the content is important or meaningful to you, save the page.

ben0x539 7y ago
im surprised at myself for shilling a service i dont even use and dont have any stake in, but https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/ lets you bookmark things and then also archive those things so they dont go away
- jimmaswell 7y ago
  That site could do the same thing as the wiki.
  - MaxBarraclough 7y ago
    Not impossible, but it's a big part of how the site makes money.
  - goatsi 7y ago
    You can download a complete archive of all the bookmarks and pages: https://alexwlchan.net/2017/07/backing-up-pinboard-archives/ https://alexwlchan.net/2017/07/backing-up-pinboard-archives/
    - miladiir 7y ago
      I tried this in the past, but could not even get it to compile. Can you share your working setup, or have you just found this?
JeremyNT 7y ago
Yes this. Grab the 'singlefile' add-on[0] and train yourself to hit that instead of bookmarking. You'll be much happier if you ever need the information again! [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/
- hyperpallium 7y ago
  Firefox: reader view then bookmark saves the content.
- zelphirkalt 7y ago
  I'll bookmark that page, thank you!
  - nocman 7y ago
    I see what you did there. :-D Naturally, you mean you'll SAVE that page, right? LOL.
    - zelphirkalt 7y ago
      Ah, right, of course, so that I can later access that page locally and install the extension whenever I need it. Then with that extension installed, I could even save that extension page!
nikanj 7y ago
Too bad modern single-page apps make it very hard to just scrape the site.
- imtringued 7y ago
  For some inexplicable reason some pages add script tags with javascript. So what happens is that you archive a page. The page is gone and when you visit it you notice all the broken links pointing to javascript files that are gone as well. Archiving even just a single webpage is non-trivial. You're dependent on the internet archive if you want a reliable backup.
Causality1 7y ago
Absolutely. When it comes to sites with mostly static content I have a habit of archiving them with HTTRACK, though I wish there was a more modern solution with better support for active content.

by c3534l 7y ago

Lesson I've long learned: never bookmark anything. Bookmarks are to temporarily remember a URL, not to archive content. If the content is important or meaningful to you, save the page.

ben0x539 7y ago

im surprised at myself for shilling a service i dont even use and dont have any stake in, but https://pinboard.in/ https://pinboard.in/ lets you bookmark things and then also archive those things so they dont go away

jimmaswell 7y ago
That site could do the same thing as the wiki.
- MaxBarraclough 7y ago
  Not impossible, but it's a big part of how the site makes money.
- goatsi 7y ago
  You can download a complete archive of all the bookmarks and pages: https://alexwlchan.net/2017/07/backing-up-pinboard-archives/ https://alexwlchan.net/2017/07/backing-up-pinboard-archives/
  - miladiir 7y ago
    I tried this in the past, but could not even get it to compile. Can you share your working setup, or have you just found this?

JeremyNT 7y ago

Yes this. Grab the 'singlefile' add-on[0] and train yourself to hit that instead of bookmarking. You'll be much happier if you ever need the information again! [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

hyperpallium 7y ago
Firefox: reader view then bookmark saves the content.
zelphirkalt 7y ago
I'll bookmark that page, thank you!
- nocman 7y ago
  I see what you did there. :-D Naturally, you mean you'll SAVE that page, right? LOL.
  - zelphirkalt 7y ago
    Ah, right, of course, so that I can later access that page locally and install the extension whenever I need it. Then with that extension installed, I could even save that extension page!

nikanj 7y ago

Too bad modern single-page apps make it very hard to just scrape the site.

imtringued 7y ago
For some inexplicable reason some pages add script tags with javascript. So what happens is that you archive a page. The page is gone and when you visit it you notice all the broken links pointing to javascript files that are gone as well. Archiving even just a single webpage is non-trivial. You're dependent on the internet archive if you want a reliable backup.

Causality1 7y ago

Absolutely. When it comes to sites with mostly static content I have a habit of archiving them with HTTRACK, though I wish there was a more modern solution with better support for active content.