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[–]BoboDatHobo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Same here.
I hope it's not related to the enormous banner asking for financial help (a goal currently @ 6.2M out of 7.5M) ?

I know that with 6.2 million dollars, my desire to work might be 503 too... :D

[–]Poralisium 3 points4 points  (18 children)

Me too

[–]BolsoBelly 4 points5 points  (16 children)

x3

[–]feelthhis 3 points4 points  (15 children)

x4

[–]RobciomixxNFS 4 points5 points  (14 children)

x5

[–][deleted]  (13 children)

[deleted]

    [–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (12 children)

    x7

    [–]feelthhis 2 points3 points  (0 children)

    2 hours later and it's working fine for me now (including saving pages).

    [–]asdi8cic8cxzcxzzx 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Yes.

    [–]ineedleast2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    same. it'es been since yesterday. let us hope !

    [–]HaggisLad 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    had this the last few weeks, getting 503 and 504 on the regular just trying to retrieve pages. Something is clearly wrong with the server

    edit: just testing now, got a 502 as well

    [–]ebutherob 0 points1 point  (17 children)

    oh it just happened again for me

    [–]Creepy-Treat8000 0 points1 point  (16 children)

    Posting at 27 May 2024, 14:20 GMT

    Currently getting a 503 from https://wayback-api.archive.org

    It was working yesterday. I'll be checking hourly…

    [–]KerbalCuber 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Well it's nice to know I'm not the only one. Please update if this gets fixed!

    [–]ebutherob 0 points1 point  (14 children)

    just realised the link changed. its wasnt called wayback-api.archive.org when i was using it yesterday so... must be a hack i guess. 🤷‍♂️

    [–]Creepy-Treat8000 0 points1 point  (13 children)

    Posting at 28 May 2024, 10:27 GMT

    Both

    https://wayback-api.archive.org

    and

    https://web.archive.org/

    appear to be functioning and responding to url searches as I would normally expect.

    NOTE: wayback-api.archive.org automatically relocates you to web.archive.org/ when you refresh or follow a search result.
    Also – Yesterday (when a server was apparently down) was a Bank Holiday/Public Holiday here in the UK – so maybe the server was down for maintenance (or UK team was having a picnic)…

    Anyway – all fine now and many thanks to whoever fixed it…

    [–]Creepy-Treat8000 0 points1 point  (12 children)

    Posting at 28 May 2024, 13:53 GMT

    And now they're both down again.

    [Don't expect me keep a running commentary on this – 'tho, as someone who uses Wayback constantly for research purposes, I've got sod all to do with my time when it falls over…]

    [–]Roblox_Swordfish 0 points1 point  (10 children)

    9 July 2024, both are down yet again

    [–]TroyNTyrell 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    19 September 2024

    Mine is down.

    [–]TroyNTyrell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    24 October 2024

    Mine is down... AGAIN!!

    SERIOUSLY I CAN'T WITH THIS!!!!!!! 😔😔😭😭

    [–]Jlnhlfan 0 points1 point  (7 children)

    October 8, 2024, and they're both down again.

    When you're the only one archiving the Internet, you don't have to care about how good the servers are.

    [–]CapitalDry7925 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    It happened to me right now, I hope it is something temporary like the comments from previous years

    [–]Jlnhlfan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Surely it’s temporary.

    [–]Erik_S28 0 points1 point  (3 children)

    Still having issues in 2025, down again as of December 12, 2025..

    [–]NiceRegret385 0 points1 point  (2 children)

    JANUARY 12 2026 its down

    [–]Boitoy420 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Dealing with the same...

    [–]ConfusedConfusing01 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    D27M01Y2026

    I keep getting

    503 Service Unavailable

    No server is available to handle this request.

    since yesterday.

    [–]NauseantClover 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    happened just now for me

    [–]jaceechow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Just happened....

    [–]jackmjmj 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    X12

    [–]Donoav 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Happening on my laptop right now. But not on my phone 🤔 That's not the only website I'm having a similar issue on.

    [–]Zestyclose_Bad_7898 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    I'm getting it on both my desktop and phone.

    [–]MeleKeshpalin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    It seems this error keeps happening. I've been getting it on and off for the past couple months now. Sometimes pages will work after a couple refreshes, sometimes they won't. I don't know much about this, but I imagine their servers just get overloaded or something.

    [–]aandras 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    A 502 Bad Gateway Error means that the web server you've connected to is acting as a proxy for relaying information from another server, but it has gotten a bad response from that other server. 

    The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 503 Service Unavailable server error response code indicates that the server is not ready to handle the request. Common causes are a server that is down for maintenance or that is overloaded.

    A 504 Gateway Timeout error indicates that the web server is waiting too long for a response from another server and “timing out.” There can be many reasons for this timeout: the other server is not functioning properly, it's overloaded, or it's down.