# Link for old browsers doesn't work on old browsers
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-old-browsers-doesnt-work-on-old-browsers/381666
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 5, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-old-browsers-doesnt-work-on-old-browsers/381666 "2025-09-05T02:29:13Z")
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### Author:  [@pnorman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pnorman)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2025, 2:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-old-browsers-doesnt-work-on-old-browsers/381666/1 "2025-09-05T02:29:13Z")
Via a [community member](https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/incompatible-browser-message-unhelpful/135225), this is a bug report for the notice about old browsers.
When viewing our Discourse with an old browser someone gets the message
> Your browser will soon be incompatible with this community. To keep participating here, please upgrade your browser or [learn more](https://meta.discourse.org/t/358131).
The link for viewing more about old browsers is [Dropping iOS 15 & other old browsers in July 2025](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dropping-ios-15-other-old-browsers-in-july-2025/358131) . The bug is that this link doesn’t work in old browsers, so they’re being directed to a page we know they can’t read.
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### Author:  [@NateDhaliwal](https://meta.discourse.org/u/NateDhaliwal)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2025, 2:45am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-old-browsers-doesnt-work-on-old-browsers/381666/2 "2025-09-05T02:45:19Z")
Hi there, just to be sure, are you referring to the part where the user says:
> > Unfortunately, [your browser is unsupported](https://discourse.org/about#browser). Please [switch to a supported browser](https://browsehappy.com) to view rich content, log in and reply.
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> (and the link from there appears to be to a random Wordpress site with essentially no content
where the [browsehappy.com](http://browsehappy.com) link here is the part which is the ‘random Wordpress site’?
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-old-browsers-doesnt-work-on-old-browsers/381666/3 "2025-09-05T04:58:04Z")
I cannot reproduce that. The link takes me to the topic and I can read it.
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### Author:  [@pnorman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pnorman)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2025, 7:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-old-browsers-doesnt-work-on-old-browsers/381666/4 "2025-09-05T07:57:04Z")
What browser are you using?
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### Author:  [@pnorman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pnorman)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2025, 8:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-old-browsers-doesnt-work-on-old-browsers/381666/5 "2025-09-05T08:01:03Z")
No - the bug is earlier, where a user on an old browser is directed to a link on [meta.discourse.org](http://meta.discourse.org) that doesn’t work on an old browser. The user with an old browser should be directed to a page that has no minimum browser requirements.
If the link for “switch to a supported browser” is helpful or not is a different question and not part of this bug.
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### Author:  [@Moin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Moin)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2025, 8:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-old-browsers-doesnt-work-on-old-browsers/381666/6 "2025-09-05T08:12:47Z")
That was Kiwi. But it’s the same with Firefox 115.27.0esr
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [September 5, 2025, 8:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-old-browsers-doesnt-work-on-old-browsers/381666/7 "2025-09-05T08:29:16Z")
Yeah just confirming what @moin has demonstrated: as with any Discourse topic, the recent browser-support announcement is available to view in any browser. There will be an ‘unsupported browser’ banner at the top, but the content should still be there.
@pnorman if your community member is unable to read the content, please could you ask them for a screenshot, and precise browser version, so we can investigate?
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### Author:  [@pnorman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pnorman)
#### Post date: [December 1, 2025, 11:17pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-old-browsers-doesnt-work-on-old-browsers/381666/8 "2025-12-01T23:17:57Z")
They are now able to read the content, so the issue has been fixed at some point.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 31, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/link-for-old-browsers-doesnt-work-on-old-browsers/381666/9 "2025-12-31T23:18:05Z")
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