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Re:Web Decay Graph by greggman on Monday June 01, 2015 @06:03AM (#9637574)
Donate to the internet archive. Then once in a while run some script to check your links, if they fail or pointing to crap link to the archive? Check them again later just incase you got a false positive?

Yea I know it won't work for all links.

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Re:Web Decay Graph by MasterScrat on Monday June 01, 2015 @07:41AM (#9637860)
Sounds like there should be a service for that:

* make a copy of all linked resources when each post is published

* regularly compare the linked resources to the copies to make sure the links still work as expected

* when a link dies, automatically replace it with a link to the copy

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Re:Web Decay Graph by gosub on Monday June 01, 2015 @10:51AM (#9638965)
more than a service (the service provider could also disappear), it should be a function of the publishing platform
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Re:Web Decay Graph by sp332 on Monday June 01, 2015 @11:07AM (#9639110)
There's an extension called Resurrect Pages that modifies Firefox's "Page not Found" screen, so you can pull the URL from Google's cache or the Internet Archive. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/resurrect-pag...
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