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How can we fix Lemmy codebase so Wayback Machine archives not allowing replies to comments being viewed? (i.imgur.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by nix@merv.news to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Currently if you archive a Lemmy thread you can see all the posts and comments but all replies to all comments are hidden in a “X# more replies ->” which if clicked it tries opening it forever and the replies never load.

Edit: updated title and body so its more clear im asking about how lemmy can be updated so its easier for the wayback machine to also archive the replies to comments

Example: https://web.archive.org/web/20230801065606/https://lemmy.world/post/2398000

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[–] grant@toast.ooo 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s two archive-friendly solutions Lemmy could take to solve this tho:

Detecting archive services and doing a full render for them
Instead of using api requests and adding them to the DOM, having them link to a separate page that has the comment thread (like how Reddit does it)

[–] Deebster@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'd rather see the second option - having a JavaScript-free solution is definitely more resilient than trying to detect and whitelist every archive service. As long as it works for wget/curl then it works for almost everyone.

[–] nix@merv.news 1 points 1 year ago

This would be best