Questions tagged [link-rot]
Link rot describes the result of removing a web page from the Internet while other sites continue to link to it, causing "Page not found" (404) errors.
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Dead link to OpaVote software on the election page (in the announcement of results)
After successful election, the election page contains text: "This election ended ... Voters have access to pre-built OpenSTV software to audit the results ..." This text contains the link ...
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When an SE site is closed, redirect the dead URLs to Area 51 instead of 404s [duplicate]
Example: https://productivity.stackexchange.com/ was closed. It'd be better if it redirects to https://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/4296/personal-productivity instead of some 404 message, so ...
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Help center page on flairs links to a YouTube video that has since been made private
Article in question: https://meta.stackexchange.com/help/flair Flair is an image summarizing your accomplishments (your reputation, your badges, the top sites you've participated on), suitable for ...
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Improve Community bot replacement edit summary
In the context of the Community bot URL replacement run addressed in 'Links to HTML versions of RFC's need to move from "tools" to "datatracker"' it became clear that the ...
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To prevent link rot, don't roomba posts that are linked by other posts
Over on Skeptics.SE I've been following this question, which is part of a series and links to four other related questions, as indicated in this handy table: Unfortunately, three of those questions ...
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Automatically load external images in posts onto Imgur (like GitHub camo) [duplicate]
GitHub uses "camo" (anonymized image URLs) for all external images that appears on GitHub, like when rendered in a README file, in a document, or in issues/pull requests. Using a proxy for ...
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1 answer
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Stable links to latest Boost documentation?
Boost C++ library documentation links typically look like these: https://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_71_0/doc/html/stacktrace.html and I (and others) occasionally use them in answers on the site. But ...
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Bitbucket will shut down hg repos in 2020, what to do with existing links?
As described in https://bitbucket.org/blog/sunsetting-mercurial-support-in-bitbucket bitbucket will delete hg repositories in less than one year from now. For an example, I linked to the thg repo and ...
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Links to tinypic.com are about to become permanently broken on August 26, 2019
I notice that there is an image link that no longer works at the end of this recently updated page in Meta.SE. I suspect that this is only one example of many items that have links to tinypic.com. ...
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30 votes
1 answer
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Automatically have links archived in the Wayback Machine
In a recent (now deleted) question, I proposed having a little reminder of some sort to archive links that are put in questions and answers, as they can die and much of the time there is no archive of ...
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Broken image (error code 400) for some Facebook avatars
I noticed a broken image on this profile. Closer inspection showing the avatar throw error with status code 400, for this url: https://graph.facebook.com/280988338943803/picture?type=large Probably ...
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Remove link to elections.se from all network sites which conducted an election [duplicate]
As can be seen in elections.stackexchange.com isn't loading, the site http://elections.stackexchange.com/ is closed until further notice (which can take long weeks/months) hence all the links ...
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Link in example newsletter leads to dead YouTube video
When visiting an SE community you are currently not a part of, you may see something like this: Upon clicking the "example newsletter" link you can scroll all the way to the bottom to find these three ...
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7 votes
1 answer
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File-sharing service links like Dropbox and Google Drive contribute to link rot
I'm a little surprised that this hasn't been requested already, as far as I could tell. I've recently encountered 3 users who used Google Drive links to share images in their questions, rather than ...
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Enable users to edit link rots [duplicate]
An answer to previous questions on link rots indicated that they are best fixed by user edits. Such edits are limited to a minimum of 6 characters, which is sometimes not the case with link rots. So ...
