On: Show HN: Pocket Stream Archive – A personal Way-Back Machine

[bicubic]

This seems neat, curious what are the use cases for this?

[nikisweeting → bicubic]

Slowing down the inevitable tide of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_rot. When I cite blog posts or want to share sites that have gone down, I can swap out the links for my archived versions.

[bicubic → nikisweeting]

Why is archive.org or one of the other centralized web archives not suitable for that? They don't index the content you want to retain?

[anc84 → bicubic]

Never rely on others to care about things you need.

[nikisweeting → bicubic]

Archive.org is a single-point-of-failure, also they don't take PDFs and screenshots of fully-rendered sites with their JS-loaded content.