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Is stuff online worth saving?

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128 points Brajeshwar | 5 comments | 17 Dec 24 14:31 UTC | HN request time: 0.638s | source
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zdc1 ◴[21 Dec 24 18:45 UTC] No.42481387[source]▶
These days whenever I read an interesting article, I will take 2 minutes to copy and paste it into my Obsidian vault under my Articles folder. I'll take care to paste the images as images (and not links) and make sure I've got the author and source URL at the top, and have my separate notes section link to it. It's a bit silly and obsessive, but given how transient content on the Internet is, I think it's necessary to make a copy of anything you care about.
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1. jeofken ◴[21 Dec 24 19:00 UTC] No.42481474[source]▶
In my day browsers could save an archive of a page

Is this still the case?

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2. Macha ◴[21 Dec 24 19:05 UTC] No.42481506[source]▶
They can but generally that includes any Javascript on the same page which sometimes does funny stuff when you open it up offline or after the remote server goes away.
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3. compootr ◴[21 Dec 24 19:37 UTC] No.42481694[source]▶
SingleFile can make a snapshot with just content/styling
4. accrual ◴[21 Dec 24 23:46 UTC] No.42483268[source]▶
It's not perfect, but Edge will let one take a simple full page screenshot with Ctrl+Shift+S. It results in a hefty PNG but at least it's a visual copy of everything which might suffice for a certain set of purposes (e.g. links will be lost, so it's not good for that).

I can still right-click > Save any page as .html, but that doesn't guarantee server streamed stuff, media, images, etc. will be preserved correctly.

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5. 800xl ◴[21 Dec 24 23:56 UTC] No.42483324[source]▶
Thank you for this! I pressed Ctrl+Shift+S in Firefox just to see if it would work and it has the same functionality.