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Richard MacManus Oct 2, 2025

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.

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Colby Russell Oct 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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Colby Russell

@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".