Poynter: As websites disappear, link rot threatens journalism. One Stanford fellow is working on a fix. “[Brandon] Tauszik discovered one of his projects, Syria Street, had disappeared due to link rot — the gradual decay of URLs and websites as they become broken, inaccessible or deleted over time. As a journalism fellow with the The Starling Lab for Data Integrity at Stanford, Tauszik has […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/08/poynter-as-websites-disappear-link-rot-threatens-journalism-one-stanford-fellow-is-working-on-a-fix/

Desde un principio tuve mis reservas con Linkwarden, me parecía una solución demasiado compleja. Buscaba algo pensado para durar decadas, que no necesite actualizaciones constantes, algo más conservador y menos preocupado por tener linda estética y animaciones cuando cargan las cosas.

Y efectivamente, a los pocos meses de usarlo salió una actualización que no me hizo perder los links que tenía guardados, pero los dejó inaccesibles desde la UI.

(sigue)

Tengo una preocupación permanente por el "link rot", el contenido en Internet se va olvidando, corrompiendo, perdiendo, y una vez que uno vivió lo suficiente como para verlo ocurrir muchas veces, se vuelve más tangible.

Estuve usando una solución de archivado llamada Linkwarden, que tiene una interfaz web para poner las URLs a respaldar, y automáticamente guarda copias locales en HTML, PDF, captura de pantalla y también envía a archive.org

(sigue)

Another page that sadly went away from the internet is kidsplaybook.com which presented a broad collection of #childrenGames from a few corners of the Earth.

The #youtube channel with videos is still up, and is cool, but who knows for how long...
https://www.youtube.com/@julesoosterwegel/videos

Weiß jemand, wie man id_main und id_bestand auf aktuelle Archivalien im #bundesarchiv mappt? Auf #Wikipedia gibt es einige tote Links, die diesem Schema folgen:

https://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Weblinksuche&limit=500&offset=0&target=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bundesarchiv.de%2Fbestaende_findmittel%2Fbestaendeuebersicht%2Fbody.html

si potrà mai quantificare quanti santi sono stati tirati giù a causa dell'introduzione della domain "cultura.gov.it"?

Ho l'impressione che non funzionano più indirizzi mail, link ecc. quasi nella metà dei casi

Goodnight https://pcdm.org/. We will (probably) remember you. https://web.archive.org/web/20250122181358/https://pcdm.org/ #LinkRot #DigiPres

I've been browsing #webcomics again recently.

They usually include author's commentary, links to inspirations and collaborators, even Wikipedia pictures.

It's astonishing how many links from 2002-2008 have rotten. Even a Wikiedia pic of a Japanese emperor ("Not PD picture").

Sites which are still up are often stripped down to the basics, the forum and community gone.

I'm beginning to think: if you care about the content, don't just link to it. Copy and host it.

I have an open (educational) resource around the @cdk and one GitHub action checks the links. Since I cite literature where that makes sense, a good number of HTTP links are to scientific literature.

Those DOI links fail with the error in the screenshot. Link rot is a thing, but when (expensive) publishers disallow me to check, they signal they don't care about link rot.

A new blog post for 2025. Very brief. There was a rotten link on wikipedia on port knocking. I re-hosted the file because it was very hard to find. The update to #wikipedia got flagged by a filter as potential self promotion. I'm not sure it'll stick or not. I'm not sure what the rules even are these days.

#linkrot

https://poleguy.com/blog/port-knocking.html

Link seals provide a quick soft-check utility for link health on your web spaces.

It's inspired by a blog post from Terence Eden about managing link rot on a website.

It proposes a very simple concept of a seal key, seal function and seal checker.

Read more on

https://mistystep.org/blog/testable-links

Cool URLs don't change (but they don't have to last forever)
by @cferdinandi
#url #LinkRot #webdev

https://gomakethings.com/cool-urls-dont-change-but-they-dont-have-to-last-forever/

38% of web pages from 2013 are no longer available. raise your hand if you contributed to that

https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024/05/17/when-online-content-disappears/

Interesting essay looking at link rot and disappearing online content from the perspective of a content creator:

https://www.theverge.com/24321569/internet-decay-link-rot-web-archive-deleted-culture