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Archive.today is the most widespread archival tool on the forum, but I notice users often complaining about the long wait times for archiving pages, usually followed by them adding the direct links to the site, proving they were waiting for the process to completely finish. This is something I've observed for a long time now, and I feel it's something which discourages users from properly archiving screenshots.
You can actually just take the WIP/placeholder link as it loads. To demonstrate, I've archived this subforum just now.
As you can see, the website is being rather slow due to the large quantities of archives being processed. The website didn't complete archiving until roughly five minutes later.
But when this page is shown and gives this link, you can actually just use it as an archive. It will still be processing when a user clicks on it immediately, but as you can see now, it still redirects to the finished archival link.
Archiving is already a small annoyance, but believing you need to wait minutes at a time for each page rather than taking the link instantaneously discourages users from archiving at all. If it was made clearer that links can be taken immediately, either by editing the thread users will regularly stumble across when figuring out how to archive or by adding an informative note in a place where users will notice it, users will be more willing to actually bother archiving to begin with.
As threads go on and produce more content, the users who readily archived before soon find the process too grating and will cease to so much as provide screencaps let alone archives, and users willing to replace them are few and far between when there is a perception of archiving being more tedious than it actually is. I believe this small change will produce a more ready willingness for users to both archive and post content for threads.
You can actually just take the WIP/placeholder link as it loads. To demonstrate, I've archived this subforum just now.
As you can see, the website is being rather slow due to the large quantities of archives being processed. The website didn't complete archiving until roughly five minutes later.
But when this page is shown and gives this link, you can actually just use it as an archive. It will still be processing when a user clicks on it immediately, but as you can see now, it still redirects to the finished archival link.
Archiving is already a small annoyance, but believing you need to wait minutes at a time for each page rather than taking the link instantaneously discourages users from archiving at all. If it was made clearer that links can be taken immediately, either by editing the thread users will regularly stumble across when figuring out how to archive or by adding an informative note in a place where users will notice it, users will be more willing to actually bother archiving to begin with.
As threads go on and produce more content, the users who readily archived before soon find the process too grating and will cease to so much as provide screencaps let alone archives, and users willing to replace them are few and far between when there is a perception of archiving being more tedious than it actually is. I believe this small change will produce a more ready willingness for users to both archive and post content for threads.
