I'm seeing a recent trend where postings here are just URL
references to messages and example code which are hosted
elsewhere. For the immediate author or reader, I suppose this
works OK (though if I don't recognize the domain, I almost
certainly won't follow a link to it).
But another value of this forum--one I've used often--is that it
is a standalone repository of the efforts made in asking and
answering questions. Link rot is a thing, and it would be a real
pity for this forum's archival functions to be degraded by 20%,
30%, perhaps more than 50% by the loss of the content which makes
it informative.
Please take this as a heartfelt request to ask and answer in text
which is held on this forum, and to paste code into the forum
post itself.
Thank you for giving this a moment's thought.
