Hacker NewsApr 10

The difficulty of making sure your website is broken

https://letsencrypt.org/2026/04/10/test-sites.html

#HackerNews #websitedevelopment #webtesting #cybersecurity #brokenlinks #letsencrypt #technews

The difficulty of making sure your website is broken

Have you ever needed to make sure your website has a broken certificate? While many tools exist to help run an HTTPS server with valid certificates, there aren’t tools to make sure your certificate is revoked or expired. This is not a problem most people have. Tools to help manage certificates are always focused on avoiding those problems, not creating them. Let’s Encrypt is a Certificate Authority, and so we have unusual problems we need to solve.

Ecologia DigitalOct 2, 2025
"As someone said on Mastodon when I posted about #replanting, this does unfortunately break Berners-Lee’s rule that “Cool #URIs don't change.” I think he originally wrote that in 1998, when it was almost impossible to foresee the scale of #brokenlinks & parasite SEO we are living through on today’s web.
So, maybe that 1998 rule needs to be updated: Cool URIs don’t change, but sometimes they're junked or left to rot—in which case, you need a cool new #URI."
#DigitalMemory
https://cybercultural.com/p/replanting/
Replanting Articles: Bring Legacy Posts to Your Website

Old articles and blog posts too often get removed from the web or neglected, left to rot on broken pages. Replanting lets you migrate legacy content to your current site so it can thrive again.

Cybercultural
Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏Oct 1, 2025

#Website designers and developers who redesign or update sites WITHOUT creating broken links are among our tech heroes!

Why? Updating broken links is very time-consuming, and it is NOT our favorite website maintenance task!

If you can volunteer some hours to help fix broken links in https://bit.ly/SkillsSafetyLaws (e.g., we just updated broken links to City of Marina municipal code, which we discovered while looking up sidewalk info for a teen this eve ) or elsewhere on our site, please contact us https://bikemonterey.org/contact-me.

And if you just want to report a broken link, https://bikemonterey.org/using-this-site/be-a-community-reviewer.

Also note: We still need a Ruby on Rails expert to volunteer for https://bikemonterey.org/boosting-small-businesses-via-discounts-for-people-who-bike-e-g-the-her-helmet-thursdays-project.html.

Muchas gracias.

#WebsiteDeveloper #WebDevelopment #WebDesign #WebDeveloper #WebDev #BrokenLinks

3. Bicycle Riding Skills, Bike Safety, and California Bike Laws—for Children, Teens, and Adults | Bicycling Monterey | Resources for Anywhere & Monterey County Biking Information Hub

N-gated Hacker NewsSep 9, 2025
🚨BREAKING: US job numbers were a figment of imagination, off by 911,000 jobs! 🔍 Meanwhile, the article is a treasure hunt of broken links and random stock names. 📉 If only jobs appeared as fast as those irrelevant stock mentions... 🙄
https://www.barrons.com/articles/jobs-report-revisions-bls-fed-3d88c77b?st=u8mw75 #USJobsFiction #JobMarketReality #BrokenLinks #StockMarketChaos #EconomicTruth #HackerNews #ngated
KeyUpIdeasApr 15, 2025

✔️ 404 Monitor-as-a-Service for Abandoned Affiliate Links

✨Build once: a service that monitors large websites or blogs for broken affiliate links (404s) and notifies owners—or offers to buy traffic #Redirection from them for a profit.

#AffiliateMarketing #404Monitoring #BrokenLinks #SaaS #PassiveIncome

HostvixJul 19, 2024

Google is going to disable ‘goo.gl’ shortened URLs in 2025

https://stackdiary.com/google-is-going-to-disable-goo-gl-shortened-urls-in-2025/

#Google #goo #shortener #URL #links #shutdown #discontinue #deprecated #web #tech #developers #marketers #digital #internet #linkrot #Firebase #adaptation #transition #technews #webtools #SEO #analytics #redirects #brokenlinks #update #evolution #techgiants #webservices #innovation #disruption #dependency

Google is going to disable 'goo.gl' shortened URLs in 2025

Google has announced that its URL shortening service, goo.gl, will be entirely disabled by August 25, 2025. Initially launched in 2009, goo.gl offered a

Stack Diary
Keith Bradnam 📈Jun 20, 2024

One of the common challenges in managing a large website with thousands of pages is dealing with #BrokenLinks.

One source of broken links is organisations that change their name. Sometimes this is from mergers with other organisations (very common with charities) but often it is because of cultural changes.

This week I fixed a broken link on our site from an organisation that has changed its name *many* times...

Sven Oliver Rüsche | ARKM.DEMar 24, 2024
Heute war #Frühjahrsputz bei meiner persönlichen Homepage: https://www.sor.de - Bin gespannt, wie #Google #Bing & Co. die Optimierungen und das große Ausmisten (Schärfung meines Profils)annehmen. #Datenschutz #Datenhygiene #brokenlinks #SOR
SOR - Datenschutz und Digitalstrategie

Externer Datenschutzbeauftragter SOR. Unternehmensberater für Datenschutz und Digitalstrategie. ☎ (0800) 9989888.

Sven Oliver Rüsche - Unternehmensberater und Internetexperte.
Lnk.BioMar 23, 2024

⛓️‍💥 Automatically discover broken lnks on your linkinbio page with our new automated check

https://lnk.bio/linkin/automatically-discover-broken-lnks-on-your-linkinbio-page

#linkinbio #automation #brokenlinks #error404

Automatically discover broken Lnks on your linkinbio page

Find out if broken links are costing you traffic and engagement

Ciourte PiailleMar 15, 2024

Monoprix veut garder du piment dans notre relation. 🌶️ C'est pour ça que tous les quelques mois, les URLs auxquelles trouver les informations sur ses magasins changent sans qu'il y ait de redirection depuis les anciennes adresses.

#liensBrisés #badUX #brokenLinks #deadLinks #Monoprix