If you love a website, back it up(blog.mistys-internet.website)
602 points by ingve 1 day ago | 141 comments
tl;dr: A web archivist laments losing a favorite fansite to domain squatters and urges readers to personally back up sites they care about rather than relying on the Internet Archive. The post walks through three tools (all from the author's employer) for creating WARC/WACZ archives: the ArchiveWeb.page browser extension, its standalone app, and Browsertrix for larger crawls. Archived sites can be replayed locally, embedded in blog posts via ReplayWeb.page, or shared as files with others.
HN Discussion:
  • ↑Agrees with bitrot concerns and recommends additional tools like SingleFile for one-off captures
  • ↑Shares personal regret about losing their own websites/content, reinforcing the article's urgency
  • ↑Warns about broader threats like LLMs replacing/rewriting the open internet, extending the article's concerns
  • ↑Describes personal archival workflows and tools (bookmarklets, wget, IA extensions) as practical implementations
  • ~Suggests going beyond backup to re-implementing/improving beloved sites