Wayback machine now only saving Bengali content

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For some reason, the internet archive/ wayback machine started storing only the Bengali language version of Chess.com on November 22, 2016.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.chess.com

At this point, the last 9 crawls are all in Bengali.

When you click on a date, you see the message:

Got an HTTP 302 response at crawl time

Redirecting to chess.com/bn

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I wrote to chess.com support hoping that if they fix the 302 error, things will start working properly again.

I wonder how many other things this impacts? I would guess that any other site that links to Chess.com would encounter this problem. Without a manual edit, anything that crawls the web like search engines will be affected.

 

/ For those who don't know, the internet archive (Wayback machine) has stored working images of chess.com going back to 1996. If you want to know what chess.com looked like at any point in its history, you can find out.

// Now would be a good time to start Bengali lessons.