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Hello. Voat-fugee here looking for a new home.

I think I could get used to this site, but there is one problem that the Javascript is not compatible with older browsers.

For various reasons not everyone is able to upgrade to the latest and greatest. I'm stuck with an older system :(

On Voat there are no problems as it is running compatible JS, but here the code is using async/await, which requires a more modern browser engine. As a result the site crashes with the following error:

Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token function

Without having to redo the code a simple solution would be to just transpile the offending file (main.js) with Babel:

https://dev.to/btandayamo/a-guide-to-through-async-await-with-babel-and-webpack-mh5

Babel will then generate compatible code which works out of the box on older browser too.

Any chance to fix this issue? Pretty please...

Hello. Voat-fugee here looking for a new home. I think I could get used to this site, but there is one problem that the Javascript is not compatible with older browsers. For various reasons not everyone is able to upgrade to the latest and greatest. I'm stuck with an older system :( On Voat there are no problems as it is running compatible JS, but here the code is using async/await, which requires a more modern browser engine. As a result the site crashes with the following error: `Uncaught SyntaxError: Unexpected token function` Without having to redo the code a simple solution would be to just transpile the offending file (main.js) with Babel: https://dev.to/btandayamo/a-guide-to-through-async-await-with-babel-and-webpack-mh5 Babel will then generate compatible code which works out of the box on older browser too. Any chance to fix this issue? Pretty please...

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[–] [Sticky] • 0 pt

For security reasons we don't support older browsers.

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I transpiled the code myself. Works without any problems. I document the solution here for myself and anyone else that needs it.

Works on Chrome + Tampermonkey:

https://pastebin.com/raw/YdqAVVQB

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Nice!

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and don't forget to put a disclaimer about the security risk from using an older browser (that doesn't get security updates anymore).