Ask HN: Weird archive.today behavior?

>>rabino+(OP)
There's really no interpretation of this which isn't malicious, although, not to defend this behaviour whatsoever, I'm not entirely surprised by it. The only real value of archive.is is its paywall bypassing abilities and, presumably, large swaths of residential proxies that allow it to archive sites that archive.org can't. Only somebody with some degree of lawlessness would operate such a project.

>>intern+AV
It's not just for paywall bypassing. Sometimes there are archive.today snapshots that aren't in the Wayback Machine (though I think your overall point about lawlessness still stands).

For example, there was some NASA debris that hit a guy's house in Florida and it was in the news. [1] Some news sites linked to a Twitter post he made with the images but he later deleted the post. [2]

The Wayback Machine has a ton of snapshots of the Twitter post but none of them render for me. [3]

But archive.today's snapshot works great. [4]

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9www02e49zo

[2] https://xcancel.com/Alejandro0tero/status/176872903149342722...

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20240715000000*/https://twitter....

[4] https://archive.md/obuWr

>>Brybry+MX
.

   {
   echo resolve web.archive.org:443:207.241.237.3
   echo url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240404223104if_/https://twitter.com/Alejandro0tero/status/1768729031493427225
   echo user-agent=\"\"
   echo header accept:
   } \
   |curl -qK/dev/stdin|tr \< '\n'|sed -n '/^meta/s/^/</;/./{/og:url/,/og:image/p;}'

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