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Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot

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Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot

#22
How is Mummify going to get around the copyright implications of ripping off the now removed piece of content which they don't own?

Also wondering: what happens if the publisher redirects the old URL to a new place -- maybe an "update"... or maybe a useless hub page?

Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot

#23

Most of the time, one will not know which pages one links to will disappear in the future. This service therefore only seems really useful if you use it with every link you make. That would make the biggest plan short on "mummies" by a couple of orders of magnitude, at least.

Not every page one visits is worth storing. The whole point is to filter out (and save) the good from the rest. An aside: Mummify needs browser plugins for all the major browser to make saving as seamless as possible.

> Not every page one visits is worth storing. The whole point is to filter out (and save) the good from the rest.

If this is a tool to "fight link rot", then we're not talking about every page one visits, we're talking about every page one links to. Presumably, every page worth linking to is also worth saving.

Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot

#24
50 mummies per month for the highest plan is way way way too low. It should 10,000 or even 50,000. Think about it this way: the people who are willing to pay you for this type of service are probably huge publishers who would use this service to share their URLs to their followers in Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot

#26
post #5

One point to note is that a DMCA takedown targeted at Mummify.it will remove the content just as it would from the nytimes.com. If I manually save that content to disk then any DMCA take down doesn't affect the content stored on my local hard disk.

What if the server was not in the US? A DMCA takedown notice would not apply.

Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot

#27

50 mummies per month for the highest plan is way way way too low. It should 10,000 or even 50,000. Think about it this way: the people who are willing to pay you for this type of service are probably huge publishers who would use this service to share their URLs to their followers in Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Doesn't help them much if a huge publisher is paying them $15 a month. That type of sale would require a SLA too, they really just need a contact email address.

Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot

#28
post #21
post #17

Weird pricing plan. At even the most expensive plan (of 15$/mo) only 50 'mummies' a month. Seems like an arbitrarily low number

There are free alternatives, like Peeep.us [1] and Archive.is. [1]: http://www.peeep.us/ [2]: http://archive.is/

From Peeep FAQ:

How long will Peeep keep my data?

Virtually forever. Nevertheless, we retain a right to remove content which has not been accessed for a month.

Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot

#29
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

FYI, for those of us with Firefox's NoScript extension your site is completely broken. Nothing loads, it is just a blank page with a list of scripts you intend to run. I wasn't curious enough about your service to whitelist your site, but I will leave a comment asking that you consider providing alternate content. It is rare to have a site completely fail to load, even with all scripts blocked (though I accept I will…

You're running an extension that purposely disables what makes the majority of the web work. Unless you disable it, you can't really complain about sites not working correctly for you.

HTML is what makes the majority of the web work, with additional functionality (optionally) provided by scripts. When I see a blank page I wouldn't call that 'not working correctly' I would call it 'not working at all'.

Maybe we agree to disagree now, and you go on blindly trusting all websites to execute random code on your machine. I am perfectly content to have new websites look a little funny the first time I visit.

Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot

#30

50 mummies per month for the highest plan is way way way too low. It should 10,000 or even 50,000. Think about it this way: the people who are willing to pay you for this type of service are probably huge publishers who would use this service to share their URLs to their followers in Twitter, Facebook, etc.

Doesn't help them much if a huge publisher is paying them $15 a month. That type of sale would require a SLA too, they really just need a contact email address.

Oh the price should increase too. Right now OP is targeting a imaginary customer. Who would pay $15 a month just for 50 mummies?
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