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> the half-life of many URLs (5-10 years?) makes them unreliable. "Simple" enough experiment, on this very site: Use the "past" feature on the main menu to go
by Bluestein 2y ago
> the half-life of many URLs (5-10 years?) makes them unreliable.
"Simple" enough experiment, on this very site: Use the "past" feature on the main menu to go back a step at a time, and tally the number of broken links from the external submissions the further you go back.-
The amount of dead projects, expired domains, broken links, 404s, etc. is sad.-
- remram 2y agoSomeone did that and found that only 5% of submitted URLs (200k/4M) were dead: https://blog.wilsonl.in/hackerverse/ https://blog.wilsonl.in/hackerverse/ Submitted 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40307519
- Bluestein 2y agoThanks for the data. That's actually not bad. Then again, 5% of a "webscale" number of sites is still a lot.- Thanks for pointing to that study ...