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A comment on Ask HN: Why are most dev.to links submitted to HN dead?.

Re:Ask HN: Why are most dev.to links submitted to HN dead? by boffinism on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:14PM (#27109659)
They're... Not? I looked through the 20 most recent links and 19 worked fine. One 404d but it was an article submitted 3 months ago.

Maybe dev.to was flubbing when you looked?

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Re:Ask HN: Why are most dev.to links submitted to HN dead? by mtmail on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:47PM (#27110070)
In your user account you can set 'showdead' to 'yes'. It's 'no' by default.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are most dev.to links submitted to HN dead? by boffinism on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:58AM (#27128542)
Argh, when the rest of the Internet uses 'dead' in the context of links to mean broken, why would HN use it to mean something else?
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Re:Ask HN: Why are most dev.to links submitted to HN dead? by BugsJustFindMe on Monday May 10, 2021 @03:40PM (#27109984)
OP is talking about this https://imgur.com/c9P4n80
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Re:Ask HN: Why are most dev.to links submitted to HN dead? by pier25 on Monday May 10, 2021 @09:07PM (#27112955)
Exactly, thanks.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are most dev.to links submitted to HN dead? by boffinism on Wednesday May 12, 2021 @05:57AM (#27128537)
Oh man, TIL that on HN, when people talk about 'dead links' they mean something specific and different to what the rest of the internet means when they talk about dead links.
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Re:Ask HN: Why are most dev.to links submitted to HN dead? by 1123581321 on Saturday May 22, 2021 @01:03PM (#27248338)
The original question should have said posts, not links. HN generally doesn’t describe the actual submitted URLs as dead, just the submitted post that contains the link.
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