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I'm surprised no one has created a service similar to archive.org but for redirects. It could work as a browser extension and would simply be a library of old b
by esperent 4y ago
I'm surprised no one has created a service similar to archive.org but for redirects. It could work as a browser extension and would simply be a library of old broken links and their new locations. Whenever you hit a 404 page it would query the service for an alternative. People can submit links themselves.
I've brought up broken links in projects I contribute to on a few occasions and it seems like people basically don't care if there's even a tiny bit of extra work involved to fix it. Complaining about this and expecting people to maintain links themselves won't work.
- cxr 4y agoI have been known to use Hypothes.is to annotate 404 pages with a signpost to the correct place, especially if getting to the correct one isn't as easy as putting the original URL into the Wayback Machine. I always tag them with the "uncool URI" tag. (Funnily enough, some of the pages I've had to use this tag include ones on w3.org or ones associated with projects like runmycode.org or operated by folks at the Internet Archive.)
- snowwrestler 4y agoArchive.org does archive redirects. They are little green bubbles instead of blue on the calendar view.