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How HN took it
6 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 15 comments about the project. Thread score +0.16.
Idea: 3 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for finding past pages and visual search
From 3 comments
I was working on the exact same tool. My links used to be spread all over the place and it was not searchable. Good work, this seems very useful.
ibrad on HNI'd like something like this add-on to work flawlessly, maybe giving me the option to selectively save the page rather than doing it systematically. I may not be useful when you…
Renaud on HNGreat job. I love useful chrome extensions. I wonder where all the extension security haters on HN went today :p
ramoq on HN
Objections
Only captures a single screenshot per URL, missing long scrolling pages
From 1 comment
Great idea. I tried this addon now. One limitation I see is that it's only saving single screenshot for each URL, not full page. So on a long (vertically scrolling) page only a…
jyvbn on HN
Nuked or altered browser history access
From 2 comments
This is neat, but I think it just nuked my browser history. That's bad.
javajosh on HNBTW disabling or uninstalling the plugin restores access to the "normal" history. And I infer that it didn't stop recording history while active, so that's good.
javajosh on HN
Captures private pages like email and banking with no exclusion list
From 1 comment
I can't imagine a large amount of people would be interested in this addon. People who use addons are usually power users, who I don't imagine would have the need for something…
Mandatum on HN
Requests
Add a Do Not Capture list of URLs
From 1 comment
I agree. I was planning on letting the user add a "Do Not Capture" list of URLs in the Options page, but didn't have time to do it on initial release. Sorry.
idibidiart on HN
Capture full pages or scroll-based captures
From 2 comments
That's an interesting problem I think will all the screenshotting tools out there. If you want the full page the extension has to scroll down the page and stitch the individual…
joshmlewis on HNThat or just record what I've actually scrolled. Why would I archive content I've never seen?
Already__Taken on HN
Alternatives named
TimeSnapper screen recording tool
From 1 comment
Slightly different, but I use a program called timesnapper [1] that takes a screen grab every second. It is so useful for figuring out exactly what I did a couple of weeks ago.…
7952 on HN
Greplin
From 1 comment
I use to use greplin for something similar. Where did I hear about this band? Search for it, see it was a tweet from my friend a year ago. Cool project.
joshdance on HN
Gwern's URL archiving approach
From 1 comment
This is pretty cool. I've had the urge to build something similar ever since reading Gwern's article about archiving[1]. My approach was going to either be an extension that…
zrail on HN