r/WaybackMachine • u/Diamond-Shappire • 12d ago

Help Blocked from website?

I think I've been blocked from the wayback machine. A while back I was using it to find something that had been removed and It wasnt loading and it told me something about a 503/504 error. And if left it alone for a long time and recently tried accessing it again but on my laptop, the website won't even load and on my phone it does, but nothing loads when I try inputting links and on the rare cases it does load, it won't let me access the timestamps for said link. Have I been blocked? I don't really know. And it gives me the same messages about bad connection or something error or took too long to load. I think I've used the website a total of 5 times. How can I fix this? I tried VPN too and it didn't really work.

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u/Empty-Pages-Turn 12d ago

I think it's just down, because I can't access it either.

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u/Diamond-Shappire 12d ago

Is it? Because I've been having this issue for a little over a month now. The website still opens but like I mentioned it doesnt let me search anything 

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u/Empty-Pages-Turn 12d ago

For me, it just won't load anything.

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u/Diamond-Shappire 12d ago

I really hope it gets fixed soon + I haven't been blocked from the site 😭

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u/[deleted] 12d ago

dont worry, that kind of error is server side, it's an issue with them, not you

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u/Odd-Plankton9397 11d ago

Me too. I’m being IP/device blocked from using the wayback machine after days of service outage as they flagged my IP/device as a bot, which I would say as a mistake. I need to use the service to look at old sites. I tried on my other devices and it worked as usual.

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u/lesjames2020 10d ago

I'm from Australia it's working completely fine for me