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Comment by toomuchtodo | Hacker News Reader

Could pull directly from the Internet Archive if the object exists?

IMO we shouldn't rely on TIA to deliver content because the original source is really bad. They have limited resources and are already being abused by lazy devs, moreover the picture you will get might have been modified to be something else on the archive.

The user you’re replying to asked how to solve a practical problem and you responded with philosophy.

While I don’t disagree with what you said in principle, being able to fall-back to TIA for removed/deleted images would probably solve the issue 95% of the time.

Last I checked, HN isn’t OPs personal army, as it were. I’m sure that the replier is aware of what was being asked, and what they were responding with. To suggest otherwise is condescending.

This is a social network. This sort of conversion is not just allowed, but encouraged. Perhaps you’d feel more at home on a Stack Exchange website, where like-minded individuals will stand alongside you in enforcing a strict Q&A format, even when it doesn’t make sense to.

Are we talking about removed/deleted images? My impression was that the suggestion was to use TIA to circumvent imgur's rate limit. Which is an application I find very questionable.

> The user you’re replying to asked how to solve a practical problem and you responded with philosophy.

If you never apply your morals you may as well not have them. Not to mention that overusing a free resource might cause it to be restricted in the future

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