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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

#11
This is an example of how great branding can help explain a product. Love the name, love the look, the copy is clever... but I don't like the low number of mummifications you get per plan.

I suggest adding more value or lowering the monthly price.

Overall, very cool.

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

#12
post #10

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

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.

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

#13
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.

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

#14

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.

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

#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.)

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

#16
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.

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 a…

+1

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

#18
post #12
post #10

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

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 have reduced functionality).

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

#19
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.

Good point. Perhaps a "download catacombs" feature?

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

#20
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…

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.
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