This seems like a great idea. I wanted to do something in this space for a while, but didn’t yet get around to figuring out how precisely to do it.
I expect that if we do this for all link posts in a batch, we will probably hit some kind of rate-limit, but I might still give it a try, and/or stagger them somehow. And then setting it up so that any new post gets archived this way, and has an immediate link to an archived version somewhere on the post-page should be quite straightforward.
Thanks a lot for the idea! I don’t know how soon we will get around to this, but I do want to make it happen. I expect sometime in the new few months, given current priorities, but I can be convinced we should prioritize it more, if people think it’s particularly important. Making this happen would probably also be a very simple open-source contribution, so I welcome anyone to submit a PR implementing this.
Actually, a feature I have on my to-do list to add to the ArchiveURLs recipe is automatic periodic (with a configurable period) re-archiving (which archive.is does support). That way, updates will get captured indefinitely.
This seems like a great idea. I wanted to do something in this space for a while, but didn’t yet get around to figuring out how precisely to do it.
I expect that if we do this for all link posts in a batch, we will probably hit some kind of rate-limit, but I might still give it a try, and/or stagger them somehow. And then setting it up so that any new post gets archived this way, and has an immediate link to an archived version somewhere on the post-page should be quite straightforward.
Thanks a lot for the idea! I don’t know how soon we will get around to this, but I do want to make it happen. I expect sometime in the new few months, given current priorities, but I can be convinced we should prioritize it more, if people think it’s particularly important. Making this happen would probably also be a very simple open-source contribution, so I welcome anyone to submit a PR implementing this.
Drive-by suggestion: I’d suggest doing the archiving maybe a week or month after posting. That way, most updates to the post are archived, too.
Actually, a feature I have on my to-do list to add to the ArchiveURLs recipe is automatic periodic (with a configurable period) re-archiving (which archive.is does support). That way, updates will get captured indefinitely.