How I built a web archive by hand, the tradeoffs between manual and automated archiving, and what I learnt about preserving the web.
  • kata1yst@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    23 hours ago
    • Linkwarden archives to multiple formats out of the box, including PDF and full HTML.
    • Both Linkwarden and Karakeep use https://github.com/Y2Z/monolith in the backend. Monolith is battle hardened and widely used and accepted.
    • ‘far from stable’ isn’t referring to the archiving, it’s referring to the frontend, tagging, etc. Features this blog post doesn’t even offer
    • a hastily cobbled together, manual (more mistakes allowed), untested system is more fragile than standardized software used by many thousands daily