Pages Tagged “Linkrot”
Tech Tips
- Feedly 404 Feedback Loop (Obsolete) I set up my site to publish an RSS feed of 404 hits, and added it to Feedly…which tried to retrieve the broken URLs, adding a new item to the report…
Blog Posts
- How Link Shorteners Leave Holes in Your Social Media
Another problem I’ve noticed in my Twitter archive: Lots of URL shorteners and image hosts have shut down or purged their archives. Sure, bit.ly and is.gd and tinyurl and ow.ly are still around. But in the days before t.co, I used a lot of different Twitter apps that used different shorteners or image hosts. I […]
- Linkrot, Ten Years On
I found an old post about linkrot in which I wondered how many links would still be around ten years later. It’s been ten years, so I looked to find out.
- Saving Ideas from the Contracting Blogosphere
Special-purpose online communities have given way to spots on major hubs like Facebook. I’ve moved a lot of old content from those networks to this site.
- A Decade of Dead Links
It’s been a while since I cleaned out – or even looked at – the dead links on this site. Wow, are there a lot of them! But do they really matter?
- Best Way to Label Dead Links
Strikethrough implies that text has been changed, and arbitrary formatting provides no clues. Using a low-contrast color might be the solution.
- Ambitious, crazy, or both?
Interesting read: Backing up Geocities: Lessons so far. A side-effect of the whole process is I now know way, way, way too much about Geocities than I ever expected to. Weâve had to dissect every aspect of how the site functions to understand how to mirror things, from its history through how it does crazy […]
- Web Contest: 11 Years Later
While checking some dead links in the Internet Archive, I decided to see what they had of the website for the Literary Guild at UCI. This was a creative writing club we were both involved in back in college. There’s an abbreviated history of the club still online. I looked at the earliest archived copy […]
- Vanishing Realm
Every Friday, a script verifies all the links on this website. I usually check the results that evening, or sometimes during the day at work, and see which dead links I can fix. Strangely enough, this week 3 links on “What the heck is a Hyperborea?” have dropped off the face of the net. I […]
- Linkrot, Part Deux
While looking for more ideas related to my earlier post on fighting link rot, I came across some interesting articles: Web Sites that Heal [archive.org] considers some of the causes of linkrot, including: changing CMS systems (which I’ve dealt with here twice), poor structure (starting small and simple, but finding that as the site grows, […]
- Weblog Etiquette vs. Link Rot
On an ideal Web, pages would stay put and links would never change. Of course, anyone who has been on the Internet long enough knows just how far away this ideal is. Commercial sites go out of business, personal sites move from school to school to ISP to ISP, news articles get moved into archives […]