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Wow I just noticed that archive.is automatically appends selected text reigons to the link in the address bar. neat https://archive.is/I55sb#selection-887.146-887.383

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It's such a great service. Can't really believe it's just one person maintaining it essentially as a public service given that it's quite expensive to run (based on a post I read in the last year or two).

Basically all my techie and non-techie friends use it -- hoping that he finds a way to make it sustainable so that it sticks around! It's a much nicer experience than waybackmachine imo, at least for my use cases

I wish it would support reading mode! It doesn't for me, at least not on Microsoft Edge.

Chromium on Android has this problem too, so it can be a chromium problem. On the other hand safari reader mode works flawlessly

I’m surprised they don’t open the code up to allow more people to pitch in.

I suspect it's to keep the secret sauce away from people that want to block it.

Good point, didn’t think of that! Although, trust issues aside, allowing anyone with an internet connection to record what they’re seeing may help circumvent such blocks too.

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