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

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Post by zackbloom »

tombrossman wrote: post #29
theg2 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 vis…

"HTML is what makes the majority of the web work" - Yes, ten years ago.

The modern internet is javascript. The code is executing in a secure sandbox. If you can get it to do something random on your machine make sure to let Google know, they'll send you a pretty big check.

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

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Post by vijucat »

I have been using the Scrapbook add-on (see screenshots and manual here : [1]) in Firefox [2] for many years for this; it saves the web page to your local hard disk, and there are several types of annotations that you can perform on the saved page. One trick I use is to first run Readability on the page to get a clean version, and then save that to Scrapbook. With full-text and comments-only-search, this add-on, all by itself, kept me with Firefox even during the dark period when Chrome came in and thrashed Firefox on performance :-)

I used to use diigo.com, which does the job quite well, too, before I discovered Scrapbook.

[1] http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/ [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/En-us/firefox/addon/scrapbook/

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

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Post by Axsuul »

tombrossman wrote: post #18
zek wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry you are having trouble with it. Sometimes the caches take a bit to generate. Please feel free to shoot us an email at help@mummify.it if your problem persists.

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…

It's a Backbone site =p

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

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Post by primigenus »

itry wrote: post #10

First I had to make an account. Then it doesnt work. Stuck at "caching page". I hate you.

From your profile:

> Intelligent but bad at communication. Trying to improve my communication skills.

Start by not posting "I hate you" to people on the internet.

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

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Post by nine_k »

toomuchtodo wrote: post #37
nine_k wrote: post #15

The approach is nice, the problem being solved is real. Hopefully paying customers will flock in. The question: is mummify.it itself going to go under some day? So I'll wait for an open-source analog of this service, to run on my own tiny server. (Or carve some time to write it myself, of course.)

There already is an open source analog: http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_ou... + http://archive.org/web/web.php

Wget is definitely a good start. What's needed is a shiny and usable UI, ways to catalog / tag / search inside your saved data, and a painless installation process. This could use come work.
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