Comment on English Wikipedia bans archive.today
CombatWombat@feddit.online 9 hours ago
Deeply saddening. Archive.today was a great resource, and stored a vast repository of human knowledge. As the internet turns to slop, we need sites that preserve the history of the web more than ever, and it’s very disappointing that the team at archive.today has failed us so profoundly in our hour of greatest need.
totally_human_emdash_user@piefed.blahaj.zone 7 hours ago
It is not clear to me why archive.today is so important given the continuing existence of archive.org.
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social 7 hours ago
Because having one thing is never good. IA goes down then what? Also archive.today captures websites differently which can work in a pinch when IA fails to archive a site.
chaogomu@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Altering the content of the archive certainly is different. And is undeniably worse.
CombatWombat@feddit.online 6 hours ago
It does more to handle client-side rendering than archive.org, so there are pages that could be rendered by today that were not archivable by org. Also, because of differing usage patterns, it has archives of pages that org didn’t, and even for pages that org does have, at times org doesn’t.