# Make Discourse play nice with the Wayback Machine

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-discourse-play-nice-with-the-wayback-machine/34579
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [2015 年 10 月 16 日午前 2:39 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-discourse-play-nice-with-the-wayback-machine/34579 "2015-10-16T02:39:46Z")
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### Author: ![anarcat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/anarcat/32/130748_2.png) [@anarcat](https://meta.discourse.org/u/anarcat)
#### Post date: [2018 年 3 月 13 日午後 5:29 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-discourse-play-nice-with-the-wayback-machine/34579/26 "2018-03-13T17:29:21Z")

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Any news from the IA people? it would be great to see this issue fixed…

I’ve tried to archive [this historic post from the Let’s Encrypt people](https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-and-wildcard-certificate-support-is-live/55579) and [archive.org](http://archive.org) made a [page that says “Oops! That page doesn’t exist or is private”](https://web.archive.org/web/20180313171525/https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-and-wildcard-certificate-support-is-live/55579), so clearly there’s something more to be done here. The [print version](https://web.archive.org/web/20180313171904/https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/acme-v2-and-wildcard-certificate-support-is-live/55579/print) does render correctly, but it’s not visible from the user and I wouldn’t have found it without looking here, so I’m not sure it’s a good fix.

In general, this connects with complaints I’ve heard from would-be Discourse users about the heavy use of Javascript in the user interface. Obviously, this was [discussed](https://meta.discourse.org/t/accessibility-concerns-re-email-lynx-jaws/35675) [many](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-basic-discourse-archival-tool/62614) [times](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-as-a-progressive-web-app/47265) here, but having _something_ show up when no Javascript loads at all would be a huge benefit to many users, not just crawlers. In Firefox with Javascript disabled, this site just says “Cannot load app” and basically tells me to go away. Many security-worried folks browse the web with Javascript turned off. As the article @ibnesayeed shared says, this is not specific to Discourse and browsing without Javascript promises a world of pain and emptiness, but it would be nice if Discourse would degrade more gracefully than “Go away, you’re too old”. 🙂

Thanks for all the work! I can already appreciate all the work that’s been done to tailor to all those corner cases, for what it’s worth…

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