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ajxstoday at 1:29 AM1 replyview on HN

Something about these JS-heavy sites I haven't seen discussed: They don't archive well.

Websites that load a big JS bundle, then use that to fetch the actual page content don't get archived properly by The Wayback Machine. That might not be a problem for corporate content, but lots of interesting content has already been lost to time because of this.


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userbinatortoday at 2:58 AM

Depending on the site, unfortunately that might be interpreted as a feature and not a bug.