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by interurban 2153 days ago
Saving every single page feels a little overwhelming to me, I open lots of pages looking for a piece of information or an answer to a question and many aren't relevant, many others are outright spam.

That said, I use pinboard to save/bookmark links, and I paid for the archival account type which automatically stores the pages I save. There's a handy bookmarklet so saving a page is a one click operation.

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How do you deal with the eventuality of Pinboard going down? (Which will almost certainly happen sooner or later.)

While the civilization doesn't depend on my data, I always like to have a backup, so paying for a service to store my web archive is barely more future-proof than saving links.

You can export the archive and put it on your own harddrive if you want, that's what I do, so I have an offline backup of all sites I have bookmarked.
One thing to note is that pinboard’s retrieval is not instantaneous. It will save your page “eventually”, which sometimes means “never” because the scraper will get there too late. It happened to me quite a few times, which is part of the reason I’m not a subscriber anymore.