Archive sources

[yawarasuuna]

I don't know if you are already doing it, but perhaps it might be a good idea to archive the sources used for each entry somewhere?

Perhaps a backup file with the links pointing to https://archive.org or something similar?

As an example, Credit Suisse was acquired by UBS a couple of years ago, and they are winding down all branding related to it, so eventually, any entry that might point to Credit Suisse website will disappear (which isn't the case right now, I opted to use Taurus' source instead)

I can see some entries already use archive, but not all of them. Perhaps set up github action that updates the backup with an archive link after a new entry? idk, I'm just spitballing here

[hanniabu]

So far I've only been doing it for paywalled articled but I can look into the github actions route

[brossetti1]

just passing through and saw this isssue, figured id drop a reference in case its of interest -- i was working breifly on fixing alot of bad links with ethereum.org and was using archive.org alot and a tool called lychee. they have a section in their docs discussing this mechanism and they have references to a github action that does this. I have not personally set it up, but these resources may be useful to know about so im just going to leave this comment here, feel free to ignore.

https://lychee.cli.rs/github_action_recipes/archived-links/
https://github.com/marketplace/actions/wayback-machine-query

[hanniabu]

Thanks! I actually have something staged, I just need to find time to work out a bug before publishing it. On page builds it'll check each source if it's an archive link, and if not it'll get one to replace it, then save the adoption.yml file with the updated links.