Questions tagged [broken-link]
For discussing the effects of broken links within posts and comments across the network, what to do with them, and how we can prevent them from becoming broken.
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Blog links to /category pages are broken
Related but not the same issue: Blog post redirects without the /dd/ in the URL are broken
This link: https://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/
Should correctly lead to a list of blog ...
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Links to old Google product forums are broken
TL;DR: 3,332 posts from multiple communities have links to productforums.google.com. Source. Apparently all these links are "broken" (they are redirected to the homepage of a community ...
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What is the right way to deal with links to sites with viruses?
This question is meant to ask for general guidance - although I will mention a specific example. (It is not my intention to call out a specific user - simply the issue is better explained on an ...
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Bulk Fix possible for "Old New Thing" links? Important Win32 resource
I keep running into broken links to Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog posts, which are a very valuable resource for winapi / win32 programmers. There are probably close to a thousand of them site-...
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Fix broken links to Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics
There are quite a few links in the network (148 when I'm writing this, mainly on Cross Validated, Mathematics and MathOverflow) to the Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics hosted at ...
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"edit your question" link on author-only guidance on duplicate questions has wrong URL on sites other than Meta Stack Exchange
When a question is closed as duplicate, the post owner has their own guidance to edit their question. The guidance also include "edit your question" link.
The link is supposed to redirect ...
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Does the bulk replacement tool also check if the new link is working?
Sometimes (on the request of the local community), the CMs mass replace some dead links by new ones. See, for example, this post (and Shog9's answer): How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on ...
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Can I update a link in a post by another person if both old and new links were written by me?
A page I wrote on a website I used to run has been edited in a way that makes it less useful.
I have a new website with a better version of this information.
If someone on Stack Exchange has linked to ...
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Can the mass-replacement tool also replace and remove?
Stack Exchange staff has a tool which can change a bunch of links without bumping the edited posts, see here: How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on a site?
In the situation that I've seen ...
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Links to HTML versions of RFC's need to move from "tools" to "datatracker"
A helpful user notified me that ~8 links in one of my answers on Cryptography were broken. I quickly found out that the problem is that the HTML version of RFC's have moved. The original HTML versions ...
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Dead link in the 'create chat room' page
The 'create a new chat room' page has a dead link. There is a link to 'the help center', trying to go to https://stackexchange.com/help/licensing, but that link doesn't go anywhere anymore.
I was ...
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Characterizing broken external links on Stack Overflow
I extract all external links in the text blocks in Stack Overflow posts and comments. 14.2% of the links on Stack Overflow are broken links. Posts with broken links receive fewer votes after the links ...
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Link to Reddit is broken in the Help Center article on harassment
The Help Center article How do I report harassment? contains the following footer:
Thanks to Twitter and Reddit, whose articles on harassment were helpful in creating some of the phrasing on this one....
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In Ask Patents, the link to "more site stats on Area 51" is broken [closed]
Ask Patents SE is a Beta site that skipped the Area 51 development phase completely, according to Which Stack Exchange sites weren't proposed in Area 51?. However, the sidebar showing the site stats ...
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Link in the question status block leads to the wrong site
In the questions on enSO there is a block (shown only to users with an Accept-Language header for a given language), which suggests one to find an answer on a localized site.
I see this block in ...
