convert all links to archive.org, archive.md, or similar

[NewAlexandria]

Summary

The links here are to line articles — which have a tendency to go offline. For this to be a resource of long term value, link-rot can be avoided by archiving the pages.

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[kdeldycke]

I have no issue replacing the original URL with an alternative archived/cached one if the original is no longer reacheable.

I agree with you, broken URLs are frustrating. But I don't think it is a good idea to replace them all. We'll do that an a case-by-case basis. If you find a broken one, please propose a PR to fix it. Or just report it as an issue and I'll do the work.

[NewAlexandria]

You can't save a tree after it's been cut down. How are you going to archive articles that went offline?

[kdeldycke]

I see this issue as a meta-stable system:

• This list is now popular enough for its content to be picked up by archival crawlers.
• Popular content in this list are naturally archived by users who value them.
• Authors who cares about their content, or like the SEO juice this list provides, have an incentive to keep them online.

All in all, if there is no pre-existing archived copy in archive.org by the time the original has disappear, maybe the content wasn't worth it in the first place and not good for inclusion. Like a natural selection process on content.

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