> an analysis of existing links has shown that most of its uses can be replaced.

Oh? Do tell!

I would be suprised if archive.today had something that was not in the wayback machine

Archive.today has just about everything the archived site doesn't want archived. Archive.org doesn't, because it lets sites delete archives.

Wayback machine removes archives upon request, so there’s definitely stuff they don’t make publicly available (they may still have it).

You don't even need to do requests if you are the owner of the URL. Robot.txt changes are applied in retrospect, which means you can disallow crawls to /abc, request a re-crawl, and all snapshots from the past which match this new rule will be removed.

Trying to search the Wayback machine almost always gives me their made-up 498 error, and when I do get a result the interface for scrolling through dates is janky at best.

Accounts to bypass paywalls? The audacity to do it?

Oh yeah those where a thing. As a public organization they can't really do that.

I personally just don't use websites that paywall important information.

>> an analysis of existing links has shown that most of its uses can be replaced.

>Oh? Do tell!

They do. In the very next paragraph in fact:

   The guidance says editors can remove Archive.today links when the original 
   source is still online and has identical content; replace the archive link so 
   it points to a different archive site, like the Internet Archive, 
   Ghostarchive, or Megalodon; or “change the original source to something that 
   doesn’t need an archive (e.g., a source that was printed on paper)

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> archive.today

Hopeless. Caught tampering the archive.

The whole situation is not great.

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I just quoted the very next paragraph after the sentence you quoted and asked for clarification.

I did so. You're welcome.

As for the rest, take it up with Jimmy Wiles, not me.

aka Jimbo Wales

Thanks for the correction. I can't type the letter 'a'[0].

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ewY8CnFae0&t=56s