archive.org will bend to censors very easily unfortunately.

Is there an API for that? I could only find one to check if a page is available (https://archive.org/help/wayback_api.php)

Nevermind, found it: https://foxrow.com/til-api-for-saving-webpages-in-the-waybac...

I'll add this to our hn.curiosity.ai server asap, should be pretty easy to automate as we already have post sync implemented there

If you do that, can you also throw $1000 a year to the Archive so they can buy a few hard drives for the stuff you are asking them to store? Thanks!

Do they store on film or spinning rust?

Keep in mind that the website author has the ability to delete content from archive.org (and I've seen a pretty significant website for a community I'm a part of do so when it shut down, ostensibly for "GDPR compliance" reasons.)

All it takes is a robot.txt file with the right entries in it.

We need something like archive.org, but which reflects the wishes of historians and preservationists, not paranoid website owners.

Do we need that? I feel like the right to be forgotten needs to be protected too. I’m already uncomfortable with the extent to which everything I write can live forever

Which is why your alias is wisely zztop44 and not JamesWilliamsPattersonChicago84.

The right to be forgotten is a very recent invention and very much not universally agreed upon.

> It's on my to-do list to automatically mirror all HN submissions as well

I recently emailed that suggestion to dang as well - both Web Archive and Archive Today (aka archive.is/ws/ph/wh/whatever), as the former is more likely to stick around and the latter is better than 12ft at bypassing paywalls. It's on their to-do list as well.

I'm a huge side project procrastinator, but if this comes after HN performance improvements on dang's to-do list I feel like I might beat them to it ;)