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This is definitely interesting and HN-worthy. If nothing else, archive.today links are posted on tons of HN submissions, so it's topical.
by golfer 8mo ago
This is definitely interesting and HN-worthy. If nothing else, archive.today links are posted on tons of HN submissions, so it's topical.
- dang 8mo agoI agree - it's clear that archive.is / archive.ph / archive.today / who-knows-what-else has been a lubricant in many HN threads, letting people read things they otherwise couldn't, and that increases the interest of the topic. I suppose I should add that we prefer archive.org links when they're available, but often they aren't. Edit: I suppose I should also re-add that we have no knowledge of or opinion about what's going on in the dispute at hand.
- chrisjj 8mo ago> we prefer archive.org links when they're available Interesting. May we know why?
- russelg 8mo agoPerhaps because the admins of archive.org don't go around DDoSing random blogs I'd reckon.
- chrisjj 8mo agoInstead they execute source page JS and allow it to doctor the archive copy.
- dannyw 8mo agoArchive.org is run by a registered nonprofit instead of what’s likely a sole maintainer, who while I personally appreciate, does seem to go a little unhinged sometimes (like the dispute with Cloudflare DNS).
- direwolf20 8mo agoThis also makes it susceptible to government pressure. It's easy to get a page taken down from archive.org and it won't archive anything paywalled.
- chrisjj 8mo agoGovernment pressure is the least of the problem. Anyone gaining control of a domain can delete all archives of it.
- direwolf20 8mo agoBecause the government pressures them to obey this
- chrisjj 8mo agoI assume that answer is not official, since there's nothing more unhinged than archive.org facilitating the page's originator to make alterations after the snapshot.