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internetarchive / wayback-machine-webextension

A web browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari 14.
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Add support for when the website / service is overloaded #985

Open exurd opened 1 year ago

exurd commented 1 year ago

Is your feature request related to a problem/ issue? Please describe. The extension doesn't tell you if the website (or the service itself) is overloaded. Wayback Machine automatically places the capture into a queue, so the extension just needs to show that it's gonna take a bit longer.

Describe the solution you'd like There should be a different status (and maybe an icon) telling you that Wayback has received the request but it will take more time to capture it.

Describe alternatives you've considered You could have it error out, but it seems a bit janky to do so since it hasn't failed outright. You can't say that it was successfully captured either because the capture is still in progress. If there are better ways than the one I've described above, don't hesitate to comment.

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cgorringe commented 1 year ago

Thanks, and I agree we should do better on this!

VishnuRaghavan commented 1 year ago

Do WM have api's exposing capturing progress or failures right now in place ?