Slashdot nodelet links broken

I assume someone has been working on "Slashdot nodelet" and has broken something. Maybe several things. Here's what I found.

Initially, I was surprised to see all links in this nodelet were showing as "visited".
I then noticed that all of the target URLs were the same. (The link texts are different, and look like genuine Slashdot headers.)
I then became aware that links point to the current page. To clarify:
- as I write this, all Slashdot links on the current tab point to 'https://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Perl Monks Discussion';
- I opened Tidings in a new tab to check if any work had been reported, all Slashdot links on that tab point to 'https://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Tidings';
- changing back to the tab where I'm writing this and all links here still point to 'https://www.perlmonks.org/?node=Perl Monks Discussion'.

I've checked several other nodelets but their links do not appear to be affected by this problem.

There's one other minor issue. The emboldened word Slashdot now appears immediately beneath the Slashdot nodelet heading: it wasn't there yesterday and it's completely redundant.

Could someone fix this please. Thankyou.

— Ken

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Re: Slashdot nodelet links broken by hippo (Archbishop) on Oct 09, 2023 at 09:50 UTC
Perhaps relatedly the jobs.perl.org nodelet has disappeared entirely (not on the page and not even listed in my nodelet settings any more). Hopefully this is just a bug and it hasn't been purposely axed. Update: it appears that it was entirely coincidental. Some maintenance on jobs.perl.org itself caused problems at the source and so this end (at Perlmonks) just wasn't showing any results at all. Furthermore my recollection of it being a separate nodelet was wrong - it just lived in my free nodelet. Everything appears to be back to normal now and I've added a static header in my free nodelet as an aide memoire that this is where the jobs listings live. 🦛	[reply]
Re: Slashdot nodelet links broken by kcott (Archbishop) on Oct 09, 2023 at 12:55 UTC
An additional piece of information which might help in tracking down the problem. All of the Slashdot entries' target links appear to exactly mirror what is shown in my browser's address bar. I had a reply and navigated to "Slashdot nodelet links broken". My address bar had '`https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=11154878`'; all of the Slashdot entries' target links had the same. I voted on the reply; the query string was lost as usual; my address bar changed to '`https://www.perlmonks.org/?`'; all of the Slashdot entries' target links now had the same: '`https://www.perlmonks.org/?`'. I thought that might help in determining where the Slashdot target URLs were coming from. [Aside:* The reply mentioned was from hippo re "jobs.perl.org" and I upvoted it. :-)]* — Ken	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Slashdot nodelet links broken by jdporter (Paladin) on Oct 09, 2023 at 18:01 UTC
Fixed. Thank you for bringing this to our attention!	[reply]
Re^2: Slashdot nodelet links broken by kcott (Archbishop) on Oct 11, 2023 at 00:50 UTC
Thanks. It all seems to be working normally again. — Ken	[reply]
Re^3: Slashdot nodelet links broken by jdporter (Paladin) on Oct 11, 2023 at 01:41 UTC
Cool. Thanks again. Would you (or anyone) be interested in a Hacker News nodelet, similarly?	[reply]
Re^4: Slashdot nodelet links broken by kcott (Archbishop) on Oct 11, 2023 at 07:51 UTC
Re^5: Slashdot nodelet links broken by jdporter (Paladin) on Oct 11, 2023 at 12:51 UTC
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