[dang]

I agree - it's clear that archive.is / archive.ph / archive.today / who-knows-what-else has been a lubricant in many HN threads, letting people read things they otherwise couldn't, and that increases the interest of the topic.

I suppose I should add that we prefer archive.org links when they're available, but often they aren't.

Edit: I suppose I should also re-add that we have no knowledge of or opinion about what's going on in the dispute at hand.

[chrisjj]

> we prefer archive.org links when they're available

Interesting. May we know why?

[dannyw]

Archive.org is run by a registered nonprofit instead of what’s likely a sole maintainer, who while I personally appreciate, does seem to go a little unhinged sometimes (like the dispute with Cloudflare DNS).

[chrisjj]

I assume that answer is not official, since there's nothing more unhinged than archive.org facilitating the page's originator to make alterations after the snapshot.

[direwolf20]

This also makes it susceptible to government pressure. It's easy to get a page taken down from archive.org and it won't archive anything paywalled.

[chrisjj]

Government pressure is the least of the problem. Anyone gaining control of a domain can delete all archives of it.

[direwolf20]

Because the government pressures them to obey this

[russelg]

Perhaps because the admins of archive.org don't go around DDoSing random blogs I'd reckon.

[chrisjj]

Instead they execute source page JS and allow it to doctor the archive copy.