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Link website to Wayback Machine if feature no longer exists #294

Open 1ec5 opened 3 years ago

1ec5 commented 3 years ago

This shop closed back in May. The feature is still tagged with website because it had that website back when it was open. As of writing, the website value still redirects to a valid website. But over time, the original domain runs a high risk of being taken over by a spammer or worse. We should avoid linking the website value verbatim. Instead, we could optimistically link to the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine in case it happens to have crawled the website before it was taken down. Or we could simply remove the link and expect users to consult the Wayback Machine manually.

ghost commented 2 years ago

for sites that are still up but haven't been crawled yet it's possible to request a crawl and then the results of the request are provided for the requester (https://web.archive.org/save). There may be an API for this but I'm not sure it's worth weighing iD down with it versus relying on manual addition.