Re: Link Rot

2021-05-24 Thread geneb via cctalk
On Mon, 24 May 2021, ben via cctalk wrote: On 2021-05-24 9:58 a.m., Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: On 5/22/21 10:28 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: A more disturbing popular trend is information being placed in long-ish Youtube videos that could have been summarized concisely in a page

Re: Link Rot

2021-05-24 Thread ben via cctalk
On 2021-05-24 9:58 a.m., Jules Richardson via cctalk wrote: On 5/22/21 10:28 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: A more disturbing popular trend is information being placed in long-ish Youtube videos that could have been summarized concisely in a page of text. Kids. It seems to be the modern

RE: Link Rot

2021-05-24 Thread Ali via cctalk
> Kids. It seems to be the modern way - current generations don't want to > spend a couple of minutes reading text when they can sit though 30 > minutes > of visual content instead. It's like brains have lost the ability to > focus > on something unless it's noisy and moving. No. Money. It is

Re: Link Rot

2021-05-24 Thread Jules Richardson via cctalk
On 5/22/21 10:28 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: A more disturbing popular trend is information being placed in long-ish Youtube videos that could have been summarized concisely in a page of text. Kids. It seems to be the modern way - current generations don't want to spend a couple of

Re: Link Rot

2021-05-22 Thread Justin Goldberg via cctalk
I've always thought that robots.txt would the be interesting stuff that should be archived, perhaps it could be behind a paywall. There's no law against archiving it other then subnets being blocked, which is easily bypassed as matt cutts wrote a blog post on silently spidering content. Also you

RE: Link Rot

2021-05-22 Thread Ali via cctalk
> However, it's far from perfect--in particular ftp content has > apparently Yes, who would have ever thought FTPs would be dropping like flies though? Web sites? Sure. But FTP - how else were you going to distribute all those drivers, patches, etc... Short answer just don't bother doing it

Re: Link Rot

2021-05-22 Thread Chuck Guzis via cctalk
On 5/22/21 7:41 PM, Adrian Stoness via cctalk wrote: > link rot is weird in what disapears vs still works > > On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 6:45 PM Ali via cctalk > wrote: > >> Interesting article on Link Rot and its prevalence. According to the >> article even sources being referenced as early as

Re: Link Rot

2021-05-22 Thread Adrian Stoness via cctalk
link rot is weird in what disapears vs still works On Sat, May 22, 2021 at 6:45 PM Ali via cctalk wrote: > Interesting article on Link Rot and its prevalence. According to the > article even sources being referenced as early as 2018 have about a 60% > Rot.I think all of us in this hobby can