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by wolco 2105 days ago
No one touched on this but the experience of viewing through the waybackmachine is awful.

Media many times will not be saved so pages look broken. The iframe and the iframe breakers on original sites can kill any navigating.

The waybackmachine is okay for researching but a poor replacement as a perm link.

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> Media many times will not be saved so pages look broken.

In my experience, this has gotten much, much better in the last few years. I haven't explored enough to know if this is part of the archival process or not, but I've noticed on a few occasions that assets will suddenly appear some time after archiving a page. For instance, when I first archived this page (https://web.archive.org/web/20180928051336/https://www.intel...), none of the stylesheets, scripts, fonts or images were present. However, after some amount of time (days/weeks) they suddenly appeared and I was able to use the site as it originally appeared.