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I use it like permanent bookmarks. I can go back to it and trust it'll still be there. And this isn't just "things disappear eventually" - for a specific exam

by soneil 5y ago

I use it like permanent bookmarks. I can go back to it and trust it'll still be there. And this isn't just "things disappear eventually" - for a specific example, I was working on something rather last-minute recently, and wanted to refer to a vendor's whitepaper - and their entire site was "down for maintenance" all weekend. So I went onto my archive and I still had a copy from my first pass over the topic. It's a free resource, I can't blame them and I can't complain - but if I can make sure it doesn't impact me, even better. I know other people would still have that tab open from 3 weeks ago, but I just don't work like that. I'm not going to complain about wayback/archive.org at all, but the nature of the beast is that there's certain requests they have to obey - and with my own offline, non-exposed equivalent, I don't (well, I do, but I simply don't receive them)

sleavey 5y ago
> I use it like permanent bookmarks. I create browser bookmarks regularly but I wouldn't be bothered to SSH into my server to also tell it to grab a copy of the URL. Automating this with a browser plugin would be cool.
- soneil 5y ago
  There is a web UI, so I have a JS "bookmarklet" in my toolbar. If you go to the web UI and Add a url, right at the bottom of the page there's a link you can bookmark to do the same. So that's my workflow - click Archive (or cmd-alt-1), then hit enter. Done.
  - sleavey 5y ago
    Aha, that's great! I might give this a go this weekend then.
    - nikisweeting 5y ago
      There's also a real browser extension in the works by one of our users: https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/577#issuecomment-872915877 https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox/issues/577#issuecom...