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Couldn't archive.org go away some day though? It could disappear before the original site. This seems unlikely but it's possible. I'd rather link to the origin
by choward 5y ago
Couldn't archive.org go away some day though? It could disappear before the original site. This seems unlikely but it's possible.
I'd rather link to the original but save it on archive.org as a backup. Of course whoever uses the broken link would have to know to go look it up on archive.org.
- hwers 5y agoI guess it's a question of minimizing risks and it seems likely that risk of shorturl site going away > risk of website going away > risk of archive.org going away
- dewey 5y agoWell that's always a possibility. The archive.org URL usually contains the full original URL so there's no downside of using it. In this case though, it's still just code documentation so ideally it should be somewhat possible to figure out what's going on without a link to an external site. It's just about minimizing the risk.