diff --git a/web/src/objects/view.rs b/web/src/objects/view.rs
index b9db42f..d1dfb59 100644
--- a/web/src/objects/view.rs
+++ b/web/src/objects/view.rs
@@ -41,9 +41,22 @@ pub fn ObjectView() -> impl IntoView {
 				<hr class="color ma-2" />
 				<code class="cw color center mt-1 mb-1 ml-3 mr-3">
 					<a class="clean" href=format!("{base}/context")><span class="emoji">"🕸️"</span>" "<b>context</b></a>" | "<a class="clean" href=format!("{base}/replies")><span class="emoji">"📫"</span>" "<b>replies</b></a>
+					{if auth.present() {
+						Some(view! {
+							" | "<a class="clean" href="#crawl" on:click=move |_| crawl(base.clone(), auth) ><span class="emoji">"↺"</span></a>
+						})
+					} else { None }}
 				</code>
 				<Outlet />
 			}.into_view()
 		},
 	}}
 }
+
+fn crawl(base: String, auth: Auth) {
+	spawn_local(async move {
+		if let Err(e) = Http::fetch::<serde_json::Value>(&format!("{base}/replies?fetch=true"), auth).await {
+			tracing::error!("failed crawling replies for {base}: {e}");
+		}
+	});
+}
diff --git a/web/src/timeline/mod.rs b/web/src/timeline/mod.rs
index 1d66bfc..539a20e 100644
--- a/web/src/timeline/mod.rs
+++ b/web/src/timeline/mod.rs
@@ -84,9 +84,6 @@ impl Timeline {
 				feed_url + "?replies=false"
 			};
 		}
-		if auth.present() {
-			feed_url += "&fetch=true";
-		}
 		let collection : serde_json::Value = Http::fetch(&feed_url, auth).await?;
 		let activities : Vec<serde_json::Value> = collection
 			.ordered_items()