Scripting News: A link back to the beginning (Scripting News)
Mark W.
· 4 months ago
"For both Barger and myself, linkrot has not claimed our work -- it's all still there, many many years later." I'm curious as to what you may do to eliminate/minimize linkrot to the material linked to within your posts. In other words, do you have software that checks the validity of the links in your old posts? Do you try to repair those broken links where possible?
dave
· 4 months ago
No. I'm just talking about our sites, as opposed to the ones we point to.
bob stepno
· 4 months ago
Terrific article, Dave. Thanks for pointing to it. It's great that you and Jorn have maintained your servers/URLs to keep away linkrot for all these years. Makes me wish I'd opted for the "your own server" option instead of using http://radio.weblogs.com/0106327 -- since Userland has posted a surprise notice that hosting ends in December.
Now belatedly trying to figure out how to move seven years of admittedly not prolific or profound posts. Open to advice. (My http://stepno.com host only allows sftp connection, which Radio doesn't do.) Export to WordPress somehow? Suggestions?
I've been browsing around other users looking for notes on how they left... not seeing anything on my low technical level, but some interesting trivia: http://bit.ly/zPQIq
dave
· 4 months ago
Bob you just have to get someone to run a Radio Community Server.
We released the code for it way back when.
Pool together enough $40 users and it would pay for itself.
bob stepno
· 4 months ago
If anyone hears of such pooling going on, let me know...
As mentioned, above I'd need sftp to use my server... Also need a place clueless users (like me) could learn & get support, sort of a "userland." :-) Sad that it looks like the company by that name is fading away -- no mention of the end of radio.weblogs hosting in the April renewal bill, no e-mail alert; I just stumbled on a posting on the company site when I went to check about something else that wasn't working.
dave
· 4 months ago
Why don't you write a blog post and explain what you want
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I'm curious as to what you may do to eliminate/minimize linkrot to the material linked to within your posts. In other words, do you have software that checks the validity of the links in your old posts? Do you try to repair those broken links where possible?
Now belatedly trying to figure out how to move seven years of admittedly not prolific or profound posts. Open to advice. (My http://stepno.com host only allows sftp connection, which Radio doesn't do.) Export to WordPress somehow? Suggestions?
I've been browsing around other users looking for notes on how they left... not seeing anything on my low technical level, but some interesting trivia:
http://bit.ly/zPQIq
We released the code for it way back when.
Pool together enough $40 users and it would pay for itself.
As mentioned, above I'd need sftp to use my server... Also need a place clueless users (like me) could learn & get support, sort of a "userland."
:-)
Sad that it looks like the company by that name is fading away -- no mention of the end of radio.weblogs hosting in the April renewal bill, no e-mail alert; I just stumbled on a posting on the company site when I went to check about something else that wasn't working.