Richard MacManus
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. Here's how I'm doing it... https://cybercultural.com/p/replanting/ #replanting #savetheweb
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
Oct 2, 2025 at 10:08amPhanpy
Show threadAlan is @cogdog 🇨🇦Oct 2, 2025

@ricmac “Replanting” is a fab term, it goes to with what others call “rewilding” the web.

I’ve been accumulating my own as a pile of bones- sites lost from web services that vanished as well as my own ones that I’ve had to move https://bones.cogdogblog.com/

CogDog Web Bone Pile

Show threadColby RussellOct 24

@ricmac the "re-planting" metaphor is fun and attention-grabbing, but ultimately anything that that frames republishing in terms other than the established terms from the history of publishing is probably harmful (perpetuates a harmful fiction that has really been a source of major problems for most of the lifetime of the Web).

Just call them they are: "reprints" or "reissues". <https://hypothes.is/a/FWEDwInLEeyhtVeF1gArUw>

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Hypothes.is
Show threadColby RussellOct 24
@ricmac broken links and "edited" pages aren't dead or changed, respectively. They're unavailable (in the "out-of-print" sense) or "published by an untrustworthy source".
Show threadbMcDOct 24
@ricmac I have a json file of old articles, but no idea how to replant. Need to figure that out.