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Cool. I'm glad. Thanks for the information you've shared in your posts. I try to be as informed as I am able to be on topics and I am more informed on these two archive sites now than I was prior to this discussion thanks to you.

From a functionality standpoint for my usage, while I find archive.today useful for archiving general news stories, it absolutely is a piece of shit in regards to other uses - such as in relation to archiving PDF links. Instead of it archiving the PDF file so that it can be saved like a PDF archived with archive.org, or the PDF text being viewable on-screen in its entirety or in a scrollable box, it is usually just a snapshot of the start of the file as a picture on the screen and the picture even has a scroll bar in it. I archive anything of actual importance like PDFs and science studies on the toxic injections on archive.org instead.

But I did mention I encounter some issues on there. Sometimes the saved page displays improperly like it has no CSS styling and a bunch of page elements are missing. Other times I will archive a link and it says the page was successfully saved, but I then click the archive link it gives for the page and it says that page has not been saved yet and asks if I want to save it now. When I save it again it says that the page was just archived and that pages can only be archived once every 5 minutes or something but their archived page link still brings up saying that the page isn't archived yet. Archive.org also has a list of sites that it intentionally excludes from being eligible for being archived

I'll look more into whether the archive.org issues I experience are only something on my end instead of something with them (some addon combination/conflict or cache/browser issue). If I can get archive.org to actually archive links every time without the not-actually-archived issue and have the pages display properly as they normally do on the source page, I'd prefer to switch entirely over to using it versus archive.today.