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Poster:	TL7	Date:	Dec 17, 2023 6:33am
Forum:	opensource	Subject:	YouTube comments should be stored into the text collections.

July 9th, 2013, was a very bad day in the history of YouTube. On that day, YouTube made a change to the way comments are displayed.

Since that day, the Wayback Machine has been unable to capture YouTube comments due to comments being loaded separately through AJAX instead of being pre-included in the HTML document.

If it is not possible to display comments in the Wayback Machine due to technical limitations, I suggest that comments are stored separately in the text collection.

A "view comments" button could be added to the Wayback Machine toolbar at the top, which would then refer to the file that contains the comments.