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> After you saved a link, it will automatically saved by the Internet Archive. A reliable backup without maintenance.~

The wayback machine does require maintenance, by the good people who work at archive.org. Might be a nice touch to included a Donate link here instead of implying it's somehow magic.

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There is a donation link in the LinkAce settings for the archive, but making it more prominent is a good idea. I actually donate on a regular base and hope others will do too.

Edit: added a link to the features page.

Alternatively, add an option into linkace to archive the page locally?

That's the approach https://archivy.github.io takes.

I thought a lot about this when I started working on the app. I decided against it because the Internet Archive has the proper tools, expertise, infrastructure and is - hopefully - a long term archive for websites. Maybe an alternative local backup is added in some future version, but I have no plans for it currently.

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