Comment by mattowen_uk

3 years ago

This is so much fun, I love it.

I don't want it to be part of HN though, I like HNs minimalism as it is.

Also, what the long term prospects of this project? If I bookmark it, and return in 5 years time, will it still be up ?

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capableweb  3 years ago

> Also, what the long term prospects of this project? If I bookmark it, and return in 5 years time, will it still be up ?

I recently went through my bookmarks (900+, oldest bookmark from 9 years ago) and about 20% of the links still worked (2xx status code) while only half of those actually had the same content as the one I bookmarked.

So yeah, if you bookmark X and return in 5 years time, it's very unlikely to still be there. The web is suffering from huge bitrot scenarios right now with no fixes in sight so far. I personally started backing up content locally with `wget --mirror $URL` to prevent this for myself.

quickthrower2  3 years ago

As long as netlify doesn’t get in the way, yes. I used this rather than my own domain as I’m more likely to let my own domain drop.