The "gone site" perldesignpatterns.com was registered by a domain snapper and dozens of links in the monastery - including in posts of mine - are now forwarded to a sex site.

Not sure what the best strategy is ...

Ideas?

A generic solution would be nice.

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

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Re: Link rot by domain snapping
by parv (Parson) on Apr 03, 2023 at 03:59 UTC

    Seems editing to neuter the links (possibly include a "editor's note" at top|bottom of such a post) could be long lasting if not also easier. Consider that at some point some other domains would become defunct.

    Someone would have to search for the URLs on The Wayback Machine. Would Internet Archive outlast PerlMonks?

Re: Link rot by domain snapping
by afoken (Chancellor) on Apr 03, 2023 at 10:47 UTC
      That would also help (at least a little) with people posting links to (www.)?perlmonks.(com|net|org) instead to [id://...]
Re: Link rot by domain snapping (indirect links redirector)
by Anonymous Monk on Apr 03, 2023 at 07:39 UTC
    Standard mechanism is a link redirector page warning you're leaving perlmonks. This was suggested many times and tye liked the idea. A redirector could also construct a wayback archive link with date from node as an alternative dest. Redirector
      We did have a link redirector.

      It was abused for spamming.

      Edit

      Can't find the discussion anymore, but deactivation caused problems for choroba's CB client.

      Cheers Rolf
      (addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)
      Wikisyntax for the Monastery