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Thay got what they got and they can't get no more. We should be lucky for those 8 posts that were partially saved. In the future, with the right assistance, I'
by pests 3y ago
Thay got what they got and they can't get no more. We should be lucky for those 8 posts that were partially saved.
In the future, with the right assistance, I'm sure they could grab better archives in the limited time they have.
I still don't think that makes what they did save less useful or make it less admirable.
It would be like a library burning down and then telling the firefighters that the few scraps of books they managed to save are not useful. Why didn't they use tools needed to save the books better?
- svat 3y agoI think it's great that they saved so much (especially now that I can see that some of their results are actually usable, even if we have to manually edit the CSS or whatever). It's just that: 1. Re "In the future, with the right assistance…", they don't seem to be very open to assistance, as mentioned in another comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38411567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38411567) 2. At the time they were saying things like 98% of content saved, which led one to believe they'd get to properly archiving some of the popular profiles at least, but it turns out everything is only very partial: in your analogy it's like the firefighters celebrating that they saved most of the books, but it turns out they got only the front cover of each book. (Which is great, and better than nothing! It's just… if they had made it easier to see what they were saving, maybe more people would have been able to help? Or would have saved the ones they particularly wanted?)