Stephen HayJan 14, 2025

I'm interested in how you all deal with broken links. Now that Twitter—among others—has gone the way of the dodo, I have some in my blog (which I'm saving from the way of the dodo).

Keep the broken links but add an annotation? Note that there was once a link but no longer? Rewrite the copy such that it doesn't feel like a link was there?

Show threadFlorian ZieglerJan 14, 2025
@stephenhay @rem wrote about this here: https://remysharp.com/2023/09/26/no-more-404 Probably doesn't work for Twitter embeds, though.
No more 404

As with any ageing blog, _some_ of my outbound links are hitting either 404s or domains that are no longer active. It's understandable given that my blog is ar…

Show threadrem
@florianziegler @stephenhay I suspect twitter embeds might be a race condition, I can look at that though (ie. unrot loads first, then the twitter embed goes in, and clicks to their links prevent bubbling…theoretically).
Jan 14, 2025 at 8:57amWeb
Show threadStephen HayJan 14, 2025
@rem @florianziegler Additionally, masses of people have simply deleted their accounts and many tweets no longer exist.