The Internet Archive is still down after an attack. A backup of the web is too important to only have one copy of. This is why we do so much archiving inside Micro.blog (for Premium). Everything you link to in a blog post is archived, with images and CSS. Helps distribute the work just a little.
@manton I’m curious about what I assume would be ballooning storage/costs for a feature like that. It’s very much appreciated, but sustainable?
@manton how does that work in practice? When a site goes down, you detect that and automatically serve the mirror copy?
@AlexKucera Nothing automatic yet, although I've thought about it. Check out this video I made with more details.
@manton It’s a great feature but the trouble is it has barely any discoverability and documentation. The latter is scattered across some videos, blog posts, and maybe something in help pages. And it’s not clear how to retrieve and browse archived versions as a reader or user. In that sense, it seems nothing like the Wayback machine.
@moonmehta We could add more of a time-based browsing interface. Right now it's primarily accessible from the bookmarks or post edit screens.
