> Exploit it while you can, and be prepared to move on when you can’t.
I'll be fine for moving to whatever platform in the future, as long as it uses an open protocol, NNTP or HTTP, it doesn't matter.
My problem is when websites start pushing destructive upgrades that make reading historical posts difficult, for example, excluding them from index or completely screwing up the formatting.
Hopefully the Internet Archive Team will take care of it, if HN ever does it.
I mean you have to physically mine anything you want to save into an archive of your own. Exploit.
Sorry if this seems cynical, but if anything on the Internet is worth referring back to, it’s worth making your own copy or you should just assume that at some point you’ll never see it again. Fortunately it’s just text and hyperlinks. Even screenshots work if you OCR them somewhere down the line, though I don’t employ that method.
I'll be fine for moving to whatever platform in the future, as long as it uses an open protocol, NNTP or HTTP, it doesn't matter.
My problem is when websites start pushing destructive upgrades that make reading historical posts difficult, for example, excluding them from index or completely screwing up the formatting.
Hopefully the Internet Archive Team will take care of it, if HN ever does it.