In the worst case one might write a cool article and get two hits, one noticing it exists, and the other from the archive service. After that it might go viral, but the author may have given up by then.
The author is losing out on inbound links so google thinks their site is irrelevant and gives it a bad pagerank.
All you need to do is get archive.org to take a copy at the time, you can always adjust your link to point to that if the original is dead.
In the worst case one might write a cool article and get two hits, one noticing it exists, and the other from the archive service. After that it might go viral, but the author may have given up by then.
The author is losing out on inbound links so google thinks their site is irrelevant and gives it a bad pagerank.
All you need to do is get archive.org to take a copy at the time, you can always adjust your link to point to that if the original is dead.