I've been blogging for a long time. Over the years, I've linked to tens of thousands of websites. Inevitably, some of those sites have gone. Even when sites still exist, webmasters seem to have forgotten that Cool URls Don't Change. I use the WordPress Broken Link Checker plugin. It periodically mon...
I recently started checking all my old posts manually. Turns out only a handful of links still work. The thing that really annoyed me tho is when a domain changed ownership and displays wildly different content eventually. Some even with disreputable content.
So yeah, some “link hygiene” on occasion is probably a good idea.
Link Expiry – Verily mentioned this reply on degruchy.org.
@bekopharm @en Vocabulary note: you probably didn’t mean “indisputable” but probably “disreputable”.
@hypolite @en You’re totally right on this. Thanks!
@hypolite Also behold the awesomeness of #Webmention. Fix propagated to my comment on @Edent blog as well 😀
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