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submitted 2 years ago by Quexotic to c/support

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What's the deal with all these archive.is links? All they do is send me to infinite capcha loops. I don't get it.

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[–] marco 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's a free service with high cost that's doing a lot for the Internet.

Seems like at the moment there is a bug. I'm sure it's gonna go back to normal soon.

[–] Quexotic 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Did archive.org just get another top level domain? If that's the case then yeah definitely it's some kind of bug. I hope they get it sorted out. They're definitely one of the good guys.

[–] marco 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Never mind two separate things 😣

Archive.org's goal is to archive as much of the Internet as possible for the long term, like most archivists, and is backed by a nonprofit foundation. The "wayback machine" is only one part of what Archive.org does.

Archive.is has the more modest goal of taking on-demand snapshots of web pages in case they change

Though what I said above applies to both in my opinion.

[–] Quexotic 1 points 2 years ago

Thanks. The clarification helps.

[–] SomeGuyNamedPaul 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's not just you.

[–] Quexotic 5 points 2 years ago

Good. I like the idea but it's a PITA. It's nice to know it's not just me