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IA's public Wayback Machine (moved from SourceForge)
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Colors to show the status code of an archived URL #110

Open Arkiver2 opened 8 years ago

Arkiver2 commented 8 years ago

When currently searching for an archived version of an URL with status code 2xx it can take some time before an archived version is found which was archived while it was still available. Searching for the right version of an archived URL can become a lot easier if it's easy to see which archived versions returned status code 2xx or 3xx.

Currently an archived page is shown in the Wayback Machine as a blue circle on the date it was archived, see for example http://wayback.archive.org/web/20010501000000*/http://archive.org. Multiple colors can be used here to let someone know the status code of a page, for example:

When an URL is archived multiple times on the same day a larger circle is shown. Multiple colors can be added to this larger circle to show with which status codes the page was archived, for example:

This same idea can be used for the black bars showing the number of archived version for the months.

I think implementing colors or some other way of showing what status code an URL returned when it was achived would be very helpful for finding a right version of an URL.

mcint commented 8 years ago

2nd'ed. I'm not at all familiar with this codebase, but I might dig into this.