Agree with this. I started down learning more about archival while I was adding it to my own thing [1]. I wish there was more of an existing toolset for diffing archivals as well - what changed is just as interesting as what is there. Equally, something I kind of think is lacking in WARC/WACZ is exploration of the archives - maybe forensics is too strong a word but it would be nice to have an easier way to explore what you’ve captured and understand the data in different dimensions.

I’ve supported some of this in my own tool, ZShot - capture in sqlite, Quicklook extensions for WARC and WACZ. Just trying to make archiving easy and interpretable.

It’s also been interesting to see people use archival but for different uses: Kiwix [2] showed up in my reading recently, “archival but for offline internet”, which I’m kind of fascinated by.

[1]: https://zshot-app.com/for/archivists/

[2]: https://get.kiwix.org/en/