# 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:** [16 Octubre, 2015 02:39 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: ![Falco](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/falco/32/179432_2.png) [@Falco](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Falco)
#### Post date: [13 Marzo, 2018 18:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-discourse-play-nice-with-the-wayback-machine/34579/29 "2018-03-13T18:14:45Z")

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> [@anarcat](#):
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> also, setting my useragent to Googlebot works: I see the crawler version with javascript enabled or not. It would still be nice to show that version when Javascript is disabled, for example…

It does. In Chrome when I disable JS and refresh the Let’s Encrypt page I get a fully readable page.

> [@anarcat](#):
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> if I disable javascript/XHR (in uMatrix) and hit “reload”, I get the “Cannot load app” message.

There are several reports of bad browsers extensions that don’t work on service worker enabled sites: [ServiceWorker thinks I'm offline when I'm not - #19 by supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/t/serviceworker-thinks-im-offline-when-im-not/77886/19)

> [@codinghorror](#):
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> (Also the IA user agent is explicitly in our list of crawler user agents, as I recall)

Last I checked, they send down the user agent of the user who asked the archive, making our user-agent approach useless :sadpanda:

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