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Cool URLs don't change. https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI If you simply must redesign a site, make sure all the exis

Cool URLs don't change. https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI If you simply must redesign a site, make sure all the existing URLs still work and take someone visiting to the same equivalent in your new site. If you're going to drop a site before its redesign is ready... what the hell are you doing?

PcChip 3y ago
>If you simply must redesign a site, make sure all the existing URLs still work and take someone visiting to the same equivalent in your new site. looking at you, vmware
- no_identd 3y ago
  Personally I consider what The Cybernetics Society pulled with regards to their new homepage / the botched (in numerous ways) move of their old homepage to https://archive.cybsoc.org/ https://archive.cybsoc.org/ far more atrocious, because with Microsoft and VMware it feels less tragic
sph 3y ago
Shameless plug. I'm working on a service to solve this very problem. I hate 404s, they're so frequent even my mum knows what a 404 Page Not Found error is. Right now I'm focusing on simple, automated link checking in a closed free alpha with a few users, but the killer feature I want to implement by the end of this month is notifying users if they redesign their website and forget to set redirects to old content. [1] I would love to have more alpha testers, and the plan is to make it available for free to open-source projects and documentation sites, like c2.com. If you join the waitlist, I'll let you straight in. https://bernard.app https://bernard.app -- 1: I am redoing my personal website, trying different static generators, and I cringe at the thought that I am completely unaware if I break someone's bookmarks, or the RSS feed URL changes and I lose the couple followers I have. Bernard exists first and foremost to solve this problem for me, and I hope it might be useful to others that care about this issue.

PcChip 3y ago

>If you simply must redesign a site, make sure all the existing URLs still work and take someone visiting to the same equivalent in your new site. looking at you, vmware

no_identd 3y ago
Personally I consider what The Cybernetics Society pulled with regards to their new homepage / the botched (in numerous ways) move of their old homepage to https://archive.cybsoc.org/ https://archive.cybsoc.org/ far more atrocious, because with Microsoft and VMware it feels less tragic

sph 3y ago

Shameless plug. I'm working on a service to solve this very problem. I hate 404s, they're so frequent even my mum knows what a 404 Page Not Found error is. Right now I'm focusing on simple, automated link checking in a closed free alpha with a few users, but the killer feature I want to implement by the end of this month is notifying users if they redesign their website and forget to set redirects to old content. [1] I would love to have more alpha testers, and the plan is to make it available for free to open-source projects and documentation sites, like c2.com. If you join the waitlist, I'll let you straight in. https://bernard.app https://bernard.app -- 1: I am redoing my personal website, trying different static generators, and I cringe at the thought that I am completely unaware if I break someone's bookmarks, or the RSS feed URL changes and I lose the couple followers I have. Bernard exists first and foremost to solve this problem for me, and I hope it might be useful to others that care about this issue.