[mensetmanusman]

Unfortunately some dead links, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6512288

Would be cool if HN had its own web archive after 100 comments or so.

[niea_11]

Or a bot that browses discussions and if any recent ones have > 100 comments automatically sends the link to archive.org to be archived and then add a comment with the link of the archived copy

[ashtonbaker]

Are bots allowed here? I've never seen the kind of utility bot that is common on Reddit.

[gus_massa]

Bots are heavily discouraged here. (Almost totally forbidden.)

Perhaps if the bot sends the page to the archive immediately but instead of posting the comment immediately waits a few days (until the last day comments are allowed), it will not so controversial because it will add no noise to the conversation.

It's better to send an email to the mods with the idea before implementing it, because the bot may get banned.

[JKCalhoun]

Found a replacement for the (broken) video link in "WATCH THE VERY FIRST FILM VERSION OF ‘ALICE IN WONDERLAND’ FROM 1903":

https://youtu.be/zeIXfdogJbA