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When a bug tracker is inside the exclusive walled-gardens of MS Github or Gitlab.com, and you cannot or will not enter, where do you file your bug report? Here, of course. This is a refuge where you can report bugs that are otherwise unreportable due to technical or ethical constraints.

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Mastodon threads no longer archivable on archive.org (web.archive.org)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by coffeeClean to c/bugs@sopuli.xyz

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There used to be no problem archiving a Mastodon thread in the #internetArchive #waybackMachine. Now on recent threads it just shows a blank page:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240318210031/https://mastodon.social/@lrvick/112079059323905912

Or is it my browser? Does that page have content for others?

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[–] coffeeClean 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for digging into the problem. So in the end, it looks like you’ve worked it out that the content is getting archived but it’s just not rendering, correct? It used to render. Apparently the Mastodon JavaScript got too fancy and broke the use of archival.

I wondered at first if Mastodon was deliberately archive-hostile. The sensible ways to block archival are host-specific¹, so I guess it’s still unclear.

¹ (for lack of better phrasing… I don’t mean to imply it’s sensible to block archival to begin with)

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It really is a shame the archived version isn't rendering, as it really does need to be archived. It's really shitty of any medical provider to reject patients based on not owning a smartphone.