352 sats \ 14 replies \ @aoeu 8 Dec 2023 \ on: I grinded ~5000 hrs of Bitcoin content to build WhyBitcoinOnly.com. AMA AMA
Holy crap. This is super comprehensive. Well done! I noticed that the anchor links to Parts 4, 5, and 7 from the table of contents are not working on my browser. The other links are.
Given the reliance on the links to third party sites, would you potentially also include a link to a web archive version of them or even a PDF version in case the source material ever is removed?
Link rot is a big problem, i have a list of bitcoin resources and in a year or two many links die. Pdf/web archive should probably be the default links for sites like this
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Yeah, maybe add "(archive)" link after each link?
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How would you go about doing this? I've never made a fully backed up archive like you're alluding to, I assumed it'd be extremely storage-intensive to have an offline version made of every single content piece.
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Some of it might be as easy as linking to archive.org, though not all of the sites might be on there. There has got to be an program you could run that would create your own archive of the websites. I'll look into it and see if I find anything.
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Interesting. If you could I'd really appreciate it! Will be quite busy with family obligations in coming weeks so can't dive into much myself, but definitely all ears to anything you learn!
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wayback machine has "save now" function where it will take a snapshot of the website if the website is not forbidding crawlers - that would be the easiest solution but i'm sure some websites will have crawlers disabled in robots.txt
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Does it have a bulk capability where I could tell it to save every link on the page (in the 4-digits I believe 😅) or would I need to click through every single one manually?
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You can use a browser extension from https://archive.is. Probably a lot of those articles are already archived there.
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Just tested those anchor links myself and they're working fine on my end, that's odd they're not for you, not sure why.
As for making a web archive for everything, do you mean like having a PDF backup of every written piece, MP4 of every podcast, etc.?
That would be incredible, but incredibly resource/storage-intensive, no?
(I've never done anything like that before so I'm all ears if this is more doable than I'm imagining)
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It is some of the outline anchor links at the top that don't work.
For example with #4
<a href="#ClearingUpBitcoinFUD"><span style="text-decoration: underline;"><b>Part 4 - Clearing Up Bitcoin FUD:</b></span></a>
it should be
href="#FUD" so at to link to the start of section 4 shown below.<h2 id="FUD"><a href="#FUD"><b>4. Clearing Up Bitcoin FUD</b></a></h2>
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!!! Great catch, thank you!
If you spot anymore, LMK. I've tweaked those anchor links around quite a few times so unfortunately I've borked a few
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Weird. Not working still on Edge on Windows 10 system at work or Firefox on Windows at home. I'll let you know if I have an issue on my Mac.
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to archive you website like that , you can download program script "wabarc/wayback" in github
to use that in android and install that in termux (minimum the phone ram rom 4gb/64gb),