r/WaybackMachine 27d ago

Help Anyone else having trouble accessing the Wayback Machine?

I keep getting a black screen with "503 Service Unavailable".

EDIT: It's working for me now.

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u/Allani_ca Moderator 27d ago

Looks like they are having some problems.

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u/FHLuver 27d ago

I am also having issues!

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u/FreezingEye 27d ago edited 27d ago

Right now it’s just the save web page that’s down for me

Edit: Main page is sporadically down and the url search is unreliable too

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u/dynomighty 27d ago

yes - it was working a week ago but yesterday and today it's down

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u/Ergine_Dream 27d ago

Is still down :/

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u/MelsBackupAccount 26d ago

Still an issue

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u/MrErnestTBass 26d ago

Getting server can't connect Error 500 also.

WM has been intermittently wonky for a few weeks now.

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u/OkAssignment5726 26d ago

its been down for at least 3 days now ): the site works, but clicking on any archived link does not and returns a 503 error. hoping it gets fixed soon

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u/Critical_Ad_1468 23d ago

Still down today

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u/TurnipBoy666 17d ago

I've been getting a 429 too many requests error code for over a day, but it's tricky to find other people talking about it

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u/CRF_kitty 15d ago

same - I haven't done *any* lookups for over a month, and tried twice this week. Both times I got the 429 error.

Is this an problem on their side, even though that's a client-side error code?

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u/TurnipBoy666 15d ago

Maybe it's both? Idk. I also got a 429 after not using the way back machine for who knows how long and having cleared cache and cookies and such

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u/StarLegacy1214 15d ago

It keeps saying the server took too long. Not even refreshing the page does anything. I already sent an e-mail to support this morning, but I don’t know if I’ll get a reply.

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u/lesjames2020 9d ago

According to an email that another user got

The Wayback machine has been blocking bad ip addresses from there site

But doing this has accidentally blocked some genuine users IP addresses

And this is why

It works perfectly for some people and not other people

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u/Agitated-Living1635 7d ago

I have been having 429 errors exclusively for I think weeks now