The news is not the news. It's a scripted agenda.

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Sorry for writing in an insufficient and confusing manner and I hope what I was trying to relate has come across.

No worries at all. There are some on here that think AT is god's gift to the internet, <cough cough>anticlutch<cough cough> so I like to point there are good reasons to not like AT. Like when they because they couldn't monetize it. But again, it's incredibly useful, but not benign.

We good lol

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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.

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.

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