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English Wikipedia bans archive.today (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 42 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Deeply saddening. Archive.today was a great resource, and stored a vast repository of human knowledge. As the internet turns to slop, we need sites that preserve the history of the web more than ever, and it’s very disappointing that the team at archive.today has failed us so profoundly in our hour of greatest need.

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    It is not clear to me why archive.today is so important given the continuing existence of archive.org.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago

    It does more to handle client-side rendering than archive.org, so there are pages that could be rendered by today that were not archivable by org. Also, because of differing usage patterns, it has archives of pages that org didn’t, and even for pages that org does have, at times org doesn’t.

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