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Nice idea, it would be interesting if you could integrate the wayback machine so it archives the webpage you add. That way even if the original page gets deleted, a snapshot will be permanently archived.


a) it does better

> If you add bookmarks, their webpages contents' will be saved to ensure that you will always have access to it

b) It's not inline with the idea of archiving things you care about. If you don't control it you can't rely on it. You definitely can't rely on wayback machine to always exist. Someone's got to keep paying for those servers and it's not a huge profit center, and there have been questions regarding its survival before because of lack of money.


> a) it does better

that's not very interesting because when I find an interesting read I rarely bookmark it. For me bookmarks are links that I visit often.

> b)

that is a fair point, however I think the wayback way is still not too shabby an idea. It ensures there's a copy snapshotted just in case, and yes it might not last forever but it's done a fantastic job so far so not trusting it now just because it'll not survive sounds a minor risk imho.


it's not "browser" bookmark. It's "add a bookmark" into the app

see https://github.com/Uzay-G/archivy/blob/master/main/templates...

it's just a form where you paste the URL of the site you're interested.


so? I don't understand why this is a meaningful statement.

Lots of us use Pinboard.in or similar "bookmark" services. They aren't "Browser bookmarks" they're just forms in some separate app too. We find them more useful than browser bookmarks. The pasting can easily be worked around with a simple bookmarklet.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.


clashmeifyoucan was saying "For me bookmarks are links that I visit often" which I interpreted as "browser bookmark".

When I read the description of Archivy, I had the same impression (it somehow captures the action of bookmarking).

So I looked at the code to see how it was done, and in fact, as you said, it's more like a local pinboard/similar "bookmark" services.

No real point to make, just clarify what 'bookmark' it was.


While I greatly appreciate that it saves it locally, which I consider essential, but saving it to wayback machine serves a different purpose: In case of a dispute with another party, you can resolve the claim about the state of a particular webpage using the wayback machine.


if you're concerned about legal proof, then again, relying on a third party service with questionable financials is a terrible idea.

This is plaintext markdown files. You can easily integrate git with it which will provide a timestamp and cryptographic proof that the contents are unchanged.


I just use one of many article parsers and save things in Markdown files, providing me with a local snapshot.


Yeah I recommend this approach, it's what ArchiveBox does as well.




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