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Re: Show HN: Never lose a website again

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Post by bradbeattie »

mooism2 wrote: post #2

What browsers does it work with? Where's your privacy policy?

Moreover, how does this work with sites that make use of ajax content? It'd be frustrating to assume that it's recording just fine, only to later find that patches of your history couldn't be recorded.

Re: Show HN: Never lose a website again

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Post by flippyhead »

bradbeattie wrote: post #3
mooism2 wrote: post #2

What browsers does it work with? Where's your privacy policy?

Moreover, how does this work with sites that make use of ajax content? It'd be frustrating to assume that it's recording just fine, only to later find that patches of your history couldn't be recorded.

That's a great point. At the moment it only records what's in the DOM (stripped of all HTML) after the first page load event. I'm working on how to include AJAX content but it's not nearly as straight forward.

Re: Show HN: Never lose a website again

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Post by flippyhead »

mappum wrote: post #5

I don't understand, what is the advantage over using Chrome's history menu?

Chrome doesn't index the contents of the page and is limited in how much history it records. This does full text indexing of the pages you visit and lasts forever. It's backed by elasticsearch.

Re: Show HN: Never lose a website again

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

Do you just record n-grams indexed against the page url, are you then uploading that index? If you're not uploading it how is there no "local version" available?

It's an interesting idea. Personally I have a script that wgets all the pages I bookmark and I very rarely use that content. What use cases are you anticipating?

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