Comment by ExtHD on 18/11/2017 at 22:04 UTC

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View submission: New feature: AutoMod will create sticky comments on link posts that link to Archive.is archives of the link

Why not https://archive.org/[1] instead?

1: https://archive.org/

Or both?

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Comment by CelineHagbard at 18/11/2017 at 22:17 UTC

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I had originally intended to use archive.org, but there's a few issues that complicate it. For one, it obeys robots.txt, which disallows webcrawlers from accessing sites who use it. It also appears to not follow redirects, meaning if someone uses a link shortener, it won't archive the correct page.

I'm not opposed to adding it, but it will work on far fewer links out of the box.