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by ppezaris 2052 days ago
Cool concept. In a world that's getting increasingly connected what are the main use-cases?

I ask because the dev tool that our company creates occasionally (okay, very rarely) gets a question about offline mode, and when I prod, it's usually just out of curiosity, not because they actually need it in real life.
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jaggirs 2052 days ago
The coolest part I think is that you have a copy of all these websites on disk, which means you can run a full text search on all the websites you visited (or on their html, technically).

Browsers'history sucks. I don't know if this project does this, but I would absolutely love to be able to do SQL queries on my browsing history.

I have 'lost' many websites I remember visiting, but for which I didn't remember anything in the title.

Also, obviously, websites change sometimes, and the web archive might not have cached the website you visited. Although from what I can tell, this project doesn't version websites, it just caches the latest, so you would probably just overwrite the previous version accidentally.

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reaperducer 2052 days ago
In a world that's getting increasingly connected what are the main use-cases?

Increasingly ≠ totally.

Even though I'm a developer, pre-pandemic I would have to spend a day or three offline several times a year while working. This would be useful for that.

I know an IT guy who works in mines. He loves anything that works offline.

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lxgr 2052 days ago
This seems to geared towars "content goes down" scenarios, rather than "reader is temporarily offline".

It's a concern I have every time I find a particularly interesting independently hosted blog post or article.

The Internet Archive goes a long way towards making me worry about this less, though. (Let's just hope they don't go away!)

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graderjs 2051 days ago
It's both. Not great for suddenly offline, as you need it on all the time and it is slow. But if you can plan it like, you're going in a mine, or spaceship or airplane, or the bush, or an alien attack or whatever... and you need offline to keep reading, then this works.

You can have archives from x day or x week or whatever, organized yourself, versioned with git, as you like, to save web content through version changes, removal or vanishing.

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