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82points
23comments
#356of 2,272 in 2014
Top 16%of 2014 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

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

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

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 HN
    • I'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 HN
    • Great 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 HN
    • BTW 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 HN
    • That 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

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