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For what it's worth, I have habitually been saving things with https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/save-page-we/... since last year. Though I have some other motivations, having a git repo with auto snapshots every minute and continously snapshotting HN discussions and changing newssites has been giving me a "I'm gonna analyze the shit out of this" vorfreude since 2 months (don't know the english word, german for literally "pre-happiness")

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I have been practicing the same habit. I save local copies of anything and everything I find interesting. I can't tell you how many obscure youtube videos seemingly disappear forever less than a month after I bookmark them.

Many tech savvy people I know have been similarly burned by link rot and now curate their own archives.

I have a bookmark file with thousands of links that has it's origins in the late 90s. It's sad just how much of it is dead links.

It's sad enough when domains lapse and die, but what is really annoying is every site seems to change structures - bookmarking is becoming so unreliable these days.

A site gets a new CMS--whether it's a news site or some other organizations--and there's a good chance that they're going to break a bunch of links.

I actually used archive.org recently to get money back from a company. I had purchased my spouse a heart-monitoring watch band for her Apple Watch. (The Kardia one that can create an EKG.) At the time I purchased it, there was no wording on their website claiming that you needed a paid account to use the functionality. It was all written as being optional. So after 30 days went by and her device would no longer work for its main purpose, I wrote to the company. Turns out they've updated their web site, so I went to archive.org, made screenshots of what it looked like on the day of my purchase and told them, "you can either give me a full refund or I can do a chargeback." We got an immediate refund and sent the watchband back.

as a fellow german:

giddiness maps wondefully in that sentence.

but to stay rational: 'looking forward to', 'excited for' are the more objective terms.

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And "anticipating" could be a more general term that doesn't necessarily have the happiness connotation. "Eagerly anticipating" would give a hit to a certain desire for it to happen, but not necessarily happiness. Of course, anticipatory happiness can be read in via context if it's an obviously positive event.

The word would likely be anticipation

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/dictionary.cambridge.org/amp/...

vorfreude == “joyful anticipation“ says the wiktionary.

I think it would just be anticipation.

Just that word wouldn't be unambiguous, e.g. (again via Wiktionary):

"Often the anticipation of a shot is worse than the pain of the stick."

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/anticipation#English

Therefore:

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Vorfreude

For me anticipation would be used when it was something positive, for a negative emotions I would use dread.

"Often the dread of a shot is worse than the pain of the stick."

> for me

I think it's just you, see Merriam-Webster, there are 1a, 1b, 2, 3a, 3b and 4 meanings, and yours is just "1b" as far as I see.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anticipation

Also see

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/anticipate

Joyful anticipation is not a phrase I have ever heard or expect to hear. It is too forced, and whilst it may be an exact translation from the German word in question it doesn't really answer the question. In the sentence used by the GP anticipation would be the most appropriate to use.

I wrote a cli application for this purpose. https://github.com/marvelm/erised

How does it handle assets like CSS, JS and Images?

You may want to put some of that stuff on IPFS, it's a good medium for snapshots. Just a thought.

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