[KPGv2]

> Or is there a way to archive sites like this?

A couple days ago, someone published their archive of HN that works in any browser.

Archiving sites is easy anyway. I wrote a Scrapy app that archives everything within the a specific fandom on Ao3. TH hardest part is remembering how beautiful soup queries work.

[roywiggins]

Static sites are straightforward, yeah. Highly dynamic websites like this one commonly explode when you archive them naively.

[sneak]

There is nothing dynamic about this site in the sense of “static site”. This may well be a static site.

[roywiggins]

Wikipedia, at least, uses the same terminology as me:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_web_page?wprov=sfla1

> A client-side dynamic web page processes the web page using JavaScript running in the browser as it loads.

The linked page is one of those. They're often harder to scrape than server-side rendered webforums and the like.

[lossyalgo]

I tried several "static site download" plugins such as SingleFile for FireFox and none of the sliders work :(

[mrkstu]

Server side rendered sites that are dynamic in nature- you'll only get a literal snapshot of state you happen to be in...

[roywiggins]

I mean highly dynamic, entirely frontend sites like these are hard to archive, since you have to really preserve every bit of JavaScript dependency, including any dynamically loaded dependencies, and rewire everything to work again.

And then hope that whatever browser features you rely on aren't removed in 20 years. Flash applets from 20 years ago are usually more self-contained and Just Work if you have a functioning runtime (either the official one or Ruffle)