Jeremy Keith built a static archive of his site The Session:

I wanted to reduce the dependencies on each page to as close to zero as I could. All the CSS is embedded in the the page. Likewise with most of the JavaScript (you’ll still need an internet connection to get audio playback and dynamic maps). This keeps the individual pages nice and self-contained. That means they can be shared around (as an email attachment, for example).

Not everyone can code something like this, so more web platforms should have this as a built-in feature. Micro.blog has multiple exports with just plain HTML.

Pelle Wessman

@manton I remember that there's been some who have done this for their blog so that articles was generated using the site design at the time of publish and then kept like that – making the archive not just an archive of content but a full on time capsule

Quite a nice idea

Been a discussion in the IndieWeb if one should do the same for WebMention avatars or whether one should try to keep up to date with the latest from the source (I think GDPR requires the latest if its a photo of someone)

Manton Reece

@voxpelli Yeah, it’s already hard enough to keep profile photos in sync everywhere. I can see not trying to solve that completely.

Manton Reece @manton
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