I no longer trust these archive sites to archive our links and keep them safe! Archive offline too!

This is what happened. I made this post earlier this morning. I archived the links that were posted using http://archive.is. At the time, they both worked. Even the Washington Post link.

Luckily my tabs were still open and was able to take screenshots!

By the time I had put my post together and submitted it, one link no longer worked.
This is what was shown...
http://i.imgs.fyi/img/32lo.jpg

So I decided to go to the wayback machine and archive it there. It worked fine. This is a screenshot of the top of the page... http://i.imgs.fyi/img/32lf.jpg

I went to double check and make sure the link still worked. It didn’t! But it said it had been archived already 6 times and that 3 urls were captured...

http://i.imgs.fyi/img/32ly.jpg
http://i.imgs.fyi/img/32lz.jpg

When I clicked on the links, this is what I saw...
http://i.imgs.fyi/img/32m5.jpg

A few minutes later, it was this...
http://i.imgs.fyi/img/32m4.jpg

I thought that this was really fishy. But I wanted to make sure http://archive.is wasn’t having problems. So I archived a CNN link...

It works just fine...
http://archive.is/oTOC4
http://i.imgs.fyi/img/32m6.jpg

It was like they were editing or deleting in real time while I was doing all this. Maybe making changes. What’s weird is the original link still worked. Maybe they edited it tho?

I think we should start saving things offline if it’s really important. I remember last year the main site we used to archive images suddenly quit and all our images were lost!

If you make webpage screenshots, you can make it into a pdf or a long full page screenshot. Keep a copy on your computer. That’s what I did... http://i.imgs.fyi/img/32m7.jpg