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I agree - it's clear that archive.is / archive.ph / archive.today / who-knows-what-else has been a lubricant in many HN threads, letting people read things they otherwise couldn't, and that increases the interest of the topic.

I suppose I should add that we prefer archive.org links when they're available, but often they aren't.

Edit: I suppose I should also re-add that we have no knowledge of or opinion about what's going on in the dispute at hand.

>>dang+(OP)
> we prefer archive.org links when they're available

Interesting. May we know why?

>>chrisj+vI
Perhaps because the admins of archive.org don't go around DDoSing random blogs I'd reckon.

>>russel+sQ
Instead they execute source page JS and allow it to doctor the archive copy.

>>chrisj+vI
Archive.org is run by a registered nonprofit instead of what’s likely a sole maintainer, who while I personally appreciate, does seem to go a little unhinged sometimes (like the dispute with Cloudflare DNS).

>>dannyw+4X
This also makes it susceptible to government pressure. It's easy to get a page taken down from archive.org and it won't archive anything paywalled.

>>dannyw+4X
I assume that answer is not official, since there's nothing more unhinged than archive.org facilitating the page's originator to make alterations after the snapshot.

>>direwo+v41
Government pressure is the least of the problem. Anyone gaining control of a domain can delete all archives of it.

>>chrisj+D81
Because the government pressures them to obey this