# 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: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [16 Octubre, 2015 03:50 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-discourse-play-nice-with-the-wayback-machine/34579/3 "2015-10-16T03:50:45Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> You may want to raise this with them, if they can make their crawler archive pure JavaScript sites, but it requires an extremely advanced crawler that runs headless browsers. Pure text curl retrieval is no longer sufficient, they have to retrieve the JS and execute it.

orrrrr we could build a topic view that looks like this 😄 (from my [AMPproject.org](http://AMPproject.org) experiment branch)

This layout is both extremely easy to crawl, and works with both wide and narrow screens.

However, I seem to have forgotten the topic’s category.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/2/b237ddf5c71141a008e05df5029933fbd454e290.png)

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