Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot
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Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot
#2Interesting in light of this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6504331
But to trust that something like this to make a permanent copy of stuff I'm linking to, I'd need to know a bit more about them. Else this is effectively like using a link shortener -- a single point of failure.
Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot
#3Things like this should be required when posting links in Stack Overflow and the like.
Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot
#4Interesting in light of this discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6504331 But to trust that something like this to make a permanent copy of stuff I'm linking to, I'd need to know a bit more about them. Else this is effectively like using a link shortener -- a single point of failure.
Hey creator here, we realize there is a bit of a trust issue, thats why we have the paid plans. Our costs are low enough that, even if you were our only paying customer left we would be able to keep the service running just for you.
Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot
#5One 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.
Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot
#6and if Mummify goes down...
Would it be a better option if the "permanents" were shared across p2p/bittorrent and every unique item had at least 10 shares distributed across the globe, maybe a max of 20. When one share host goes down, it just picks up a replacement.
Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot
#7Let's centralise the interwebs!
It seems like a bad idea, but they do have a point. Maybe when referencing a link also make a small note to one of these archive sites?
Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot
#8I don't get the number of free/paid mummifications? Seems very low, space or bandwidth are abundant.
I think, and with respect to original developer, this is more a feature then an app and probably would help if it would be developed further to target more specific problem/group.
Having said that, I wish you best.
Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot
#9One 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.
If it's something personal, I use http://archive.is with their bookmarklet in Chrome (free; unlimited archiving). It immediately renders the page, saves a copy with a unique url, and gives me a .zip link to download the archive.
If it's something I want to submit to the Internet Archive, I use wget with WARC extensions (http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Wget_with_WARC_ou...), submit the archive to the IA and notify them it needs to be merged in, and keep the .tar.gz archive.
Eventually I'll webapp/one-click the whole thing, with an archive to S3 and/or Glacier.
Disclaimer: archiveteam participant
Re: Show HN: Mummify – Preserve web content, fight link rot
#10First I had to make an account.
Then it doesnt work. Stuck at "caching page".
I hate you.