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> If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I'll shut it down. To avoid the problem of linke
by codetrotter 2y ago
> If it ever degrades to the point of being actively dangerous (and the attribution link rot is pretty close), I'll shut it down.
To avoid the problem of linked domains leading to malware or things like that, you might consider linking to archived snapshots on Wayback Machine of the links instead of the real pages, for those sites that are now no longer hosting what they used to.
- dreadlordbone 2y agoi bet those load times would be very bad
- codetrotter 2y agoWell that'd be ok. We are talking about the a href text links, not about hot-linking the images themselves.
- rollcat 2y agoPlease don't ever treat archive.org as a free CDN, they are a public library in need of your support, not free hosting for your side-project. There are enough free resources (e.g. Github Pages, Netlify, Cloudflare...) that are better suited for this task.
- choudharism 2y agoThey're talking about link rot, not hosting for the website itself.
- codetrotter 2y agoExactly.
- rollcat 2y agoI think I actually meant to reply to dreadlordbone's comment, where they implied image hotlinking - "it loads slower" because archive.org is not a CDN.