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Poster:	TL7	Date:	Sep 29, 2019 8:15pm
Forum:	forums	Subject:	Suggestion: Save Twitter videos and tweet metadata + YouTube with “?disabled_polymer=1&lc=1” parameters by default.

The Wayback Machine, by default, does not store Twitter videos and some metadata, namely the tweet source label (e.g. Twitter for Android, Twitter for iPhone, etc.).

I suggest the Wayback Machine to include that information.

I also have a suggestion to help saving YouTube comments.
Good conversations in the YouTube comments are gone forever the moment a video is taken offline, denying potentially useful information to future generations.

I suggest the Wayback Machine to save all YouTube watch pages with the following parameters:

disable_polymer=1 (“disable_polymer=true” works as well): Recalls legacy, Wayback-Friendlier website layout, instead of new, Dailymotion-like progressive web application website.


&lc=1 (or “lc=any_other_text”): Pre-loads video comments without AJAX, the enemy of Wayback.
Includes top 20 comments (or newest 20, if default set by uploader).
Requires “disabled_polymer=1” to work.

Bonus: Archive.Today also scrolls down the comments, so that hundreds of the uppermost comments can be archived at once.
Unfortunately, the new data cap of Archive.Today handicaps their useability.
I suggest the Wayback Machine to implement the ability to archive more comments (top comments and new comments), so that people in future can read the discussions and conversations that would have been lost if nobody saved them.

Also, it would be great if the Wayback Machine could be compatible with progressive web applications such as Instagram.com, which is highly in demand.

I hope my suggestions are helpful.

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Poster:	TL7	Date:	Oct 1, 2019 4:50pm
Forum:	forums	Subject:	Observation

It occasionally redirects tweet URLs. (is it just me?)

Example: web.archive.org/username/status/20 → https://twitter.com/jack/status/20 .