Archive.is blog
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please post the ip address to use when the domain registrar screws with you again
Anonymous
IPs are changing approximately every month. Domains is what make it unnoticeable.
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why is the site down? I'm concerned about stability lately. Please backup all snapshots you have somewhere, such as the Internet Archive.
It is not down. why do you think so?
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Under the 'share' popup. Can you have the short/long links/etc, all match the protocol of the page we're on? It currently always gives HTTP URLs in every field, even when you're viewing a HTTPS version
This is intentional.
If you are going to share a page is better to use a link which works everywhere, not only in your browser and location. -
Is there an android app? Or a simple way to share an url from mobile (android) browser and get an archive is url?
No :(
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Fewer pages from archived websites show up when I enter the search terms. Websites that had snapshots listed in the thousands now have less than a tenth of that. What's going on? Have the pages been removed, did you change your algorithms, or is there some kind of glitch?
The search is performed using “Google Custom Search Engine” and similar Yandex’s product. Only the pages crawled and indexed by them can be found (less than 2% of all of the archived content).
Why does not the archive have its own search engine?
It is not a very demanded feature. Google shares the statistics and the revenue from ads above the search results: there is only about $5/mo while new servers capable to index all the archived texts would cost me about $500/mo.
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in your FAQ, link for the example for supporting national characters (the Chiense charcter: 测试) was broken could it be fixed? I Hsi-chu
Fixed. Thank you for reporting!
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You may have seen talk on Wikipedia concerning whether to allow archive_is links. Archiving prevents link rot in references, & ppl have pointed out archive_is has advantages over alternatives. But there are concerns. e.g. archive_org has a clear model/organization that instills confidence it'll stick around and won't run ads. Wikipedia can't afford to risk linking to a site en masse if it will be filled with ads soon, or if it's not likely to be around for long. Anything you want to add/clarify?
In my estimation the number of pages cited in the Wikipedia several times bigger than the number of pages saved in archive.is. The number of new links which appear on the Wikipedia daily also several times bigger than the number of stored pages every day on archive.is.
If the Wikipedia would save all references into archive.is (you said “afford linking .. en masse“) this is of course cause problems.Such activity would not be similar to pressing PrintScreen and save the picture to a photo hosting site. It would become webcrawling and then archive.is would have to obey robots.txt.
This may incur additional costs associated with the purchase of new equipment to cope with the increasing load. If the expense exceeds a certain threshold then the question arises about who pays for it: me, the Wikipedia or the visitors from the Wikipedia to archive.is (any other options here?). In the last case hardly it will be AdSense advertising as archive.is has on the search page, rather an aggressive fundraising campaign. Fundraising is more familiar to the users coming from the Wikipedia because it is exactly the way used by archive.org and the Wikipedia and the expected conversion ratio is higher than from AdSense.
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Any chance of implementing a "block javascript" option for archiving?
Could you explain your idea?
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Any forum that features a picture from imgur. While archiving it will recognize almost any picture that is directly on their site and save it, however if the picture has an url on imgur it won't. In fact during the process of archiving these images will be marked grey, miss file size and lack an identification of what sort of file they are while other pictures will be in the green, feature they byte size and be written as image/gif or Image/png. Mostly on Something Awful forums
Imgur sometimes (for some clients) redirects from i.imgur.com to imgur.com; from the image to the html page with the same image + ads.
That was the case with the archive, I made a quick fix so images are loaded (example http://archive.is/tNdK2) But I am not sure how reliable it is. I have no idea about how the Imgur’s redirect logic works.
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Archive won't save pictures posted on forums. What might be the problem?
What forum?