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>Google Code. Also Wave and half a dozen chat apps, but Code was a serious one that broke a lot of the developer web. What did it break?

• Arnt 8y ago
  It hosted repos, and broke links to those repos and links within them. It also broke processes that relied on the repo, e.g. automatic issue creation in CI, but that's less serious. URLs that change without good reason are a PITA.
  • rrdharan 8y ago
    They have a process for setting up redirects. They also provide read only access to all public code AIUI: https://code.google.com/archive/about https://code.google.com/archive/about
    • ebg13 8y ago
      Setting up a redirect works if you are the administrator of the project...and are still alive. Migrating a project was simple if it didn't have a wiki. There are a lot of details that caused some real headaches. I remember it being like a mini Y2k at the time, and there's no telling how much we just collectively lost from it.