Ask HN: Should archive links go in the submission header?

4 points

3 years ago

Many people now submit archive links of news stories, for reasons that don't need to be repeated here. Submitted as comments, they have 3 shortcomings:

- creating the appearance (on the new or main page) that a discussion has begun, when it hasn't

- the archive link isn't always the top comment so it can get lost among others, obviating its utility

- when it is a top comment, it's visually distracting

Proposal: HN recognizes links like archive.org, archive.today, archive.is, archive.ph etc. and adds them to the submission header alongside the title or 'menu line' immediately underneath.

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