Chosting to infect your entire platform with linkrot rather than pay a bug bounty, very cool.
December 13, 2023 at 7:50 PM
Chosting to infect your entire platform with linkrot rather than pay a bug bounty, very cool.
December 10, 2024 at 2:49 AM
Eh, it really does point out just how ridiculous it is, because, as the comment says, linkrot.
October 17, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Eh, it really does point out just how ridiculous it is, because, as the comment says, linkrot.
Many many years ago I wrote a piece for Cracked about how I inadvertently became an “accomplice to mass murder.”
It was my first-ever published piece. It seems to have fallen to linkrot. I can’t find an archive version, either.
Can anyone help?
www.cracked.com/personal-exp...
It was my first-ever published piece. It seems to have fallen to linkrot. I can’t find an archive version, either.
Can anyone help?
www.cracked.com/personal-exp...
www.cracked.com
September 24, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Many many years ago I wrote a piece for Cracked about how I inadvertently became an “accomplice to mass murder.”
It was my first-ever published piece. It seems to have fallen to linkrot. I can’t find an archive version, either.
Can anyone help?
www.cracked.com/personal-exp...
It was my first-ever published piece. It seems to have fallen to linkrot. I can’t find an archive version, either.
Can anyone help?
www.cracked.com/personal-exp...
Yankee Hotel Linkrot, is this anything
September 17, 2026 at 2:45 PM
Yankee Hotel Linkrot, is this anything
Made a post about fighting linkrot + published a lightweight solution I made with Claude
croissanthology.substack.com/p/archiving-...
croissanthology.substack.com/p/archiving-...
May 23, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Made a post about fighting linkrot + published a lightweight solution I made with Claude
croissanthology.substack.com/p/archiving-...
croissanthology.substack.com/p/archiving-...
remarkable how much worse the internet has gotten over the last 10 years. search sucks, websites clogged with intrusive ads, platforms are almost all shit or being torn up on purpose, linkrot, etc
June 10, 2023 at 4:07 PM
remarkable how much worse the internet has gotten over the last 10 years. search sucks, websites clogged with intrusive ads, platforms are almost all shit or being torn up on purpose, linkrot, etc
This already happened in miniature as old DIY blogs went offline and Pinterest devolved into linkrot and SEO garbage. LLMs are absolutely devouring their seed corn by capturing the last human-populated sites.
July 21, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This already happened in miniature as old DIY blogs went offline and Pinterest devolved into linkrot and SEO garbage. LLMs are absolutely devouring their seed corn by capturing the last human-populated sites.
I love the concept of FOSS software and all but frustrated at how proponents seemingly never want to admit that just because there's the potential that anyone CAN do something with the code doesn't mean anyone WILL, and most of them end up being linkrot wastelands anyway
February 3, 2026 at 12:07 AM
I love the concept of FOSS software and all but frustrated at how proponents seemingly never want to admit that just because there's the potential that anyone CAN do something with the code doesn't mean anyone WILL, and most of them end up being linkrot wastelands anyway
BlueSky: speedrunning linkrot into a new forme of shitpost
April 3, 2026 at 3:25 AM
BlueSky: speedrunning linkrot into a new forme of shitpost
Linkrot on govt websites drives me absolutely insane
May 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Linkrot on govt websites drives me absolutely insane
I felt bad about deleting my tweets because linkrot is bad but maybe a little linkrot is fine
Well this nightmare dystopia we all share keeps being predictably terribler and horribler by the minute.
July 31, 2023 at 5:05 PM
I felt bad about deleting my tweets because linkrot is bad but maybe a little linkrot is fine
Tenk så mye kunst de kunne kjøpt rett fra kunsteren med de penga. Og ingen linkrot! Men neida
April 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Tenk så mye kunst de kunne kjøpt rett fra kunsteren med de penga. Og ingen linkrot! Men neida
Heb een extra opdracht gekregen van een onderzoeker en ik kom er nu achter dat linkrot echt een heleboel verpest
September 23, 2026 at 2:09 PM
Heb een extra opdracht gekregen van een onderzoeker en ik kom er nu achter dat linkrot echt een heleboel verpest
despite all the money being thrown around, some of those nerds aren't paying for the hosting any more so NFTs are being lost to linkrot lmao
April 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
despite all the money being thrown around, some of those nerds aren't paying for the hosting any more so NFTs are being lost to linkrot lmao
Been relying on baking/pressure cooker charts whatever on your favorite website for years? Print and laminate that stuff. Linkrot is accelerating.
November 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Been relying on baking/pressure cooker charts whatever on your favorite website for years? Print and laminate that stuff. Linkrot is accelerating.
the piece linked above is so emblematic of my career: thousands of words barely-edited, link-rich scoop on a blatant Tesla scandal, written for a defunct startup outlet, which never had a single impact on Tesla or NHTSA, now only available via the Wayback Machine and riddled with linkrot
October 22, 2025 at 7:53 PM
the piece linked above is so emblematic of my career: thousands of words barely-edited, link-rich scoop on a blatant Tesla scandal, written for a defunct startup outlet, which never had a single impact on Tesla or NHTSA, now only available via the Wayback Machine and riddled with linkrot
oh hey, I just learned that the ~2005 website we made to function as a fully illustrated, HTML-based key to California's arthropods is STILL THERE, a miracle in this age of linkrot essigdb.berkeley.edu/biokeys/inve...
September 9, 2025 at 12:50 AM
oh hey, I just learned that the ~2005 website we made to function as a fully illustrated, HTML-based key to California's arthropods is STILL THERE, a miracle in this age of linkrot essigdb.berkeley.edu/biokeys/inve...
Okay, got the "Progressive Rampage!" posts tagged properly. Watch out for linkrot in those!
April 1, 2026 at 9:07 PM
Okay, got the "Progressive Rampage!" posts tagged properly. Watch out for linkrot in those!
now not only have we moved to versions of the internet where the infinite contextuality enabled by hyperlinks has been replaced by context collapse, the old, context-rich parts of the web are falling apart due to linkrot
June 27, 2024 at 3:46 PM
now not only have we moved to versions of the internet where the infinite contextuality enabled by hyperlinks has been replaced by context collapse, the old, context-rich parts of the web are falling apart due to linkrot
First link death, then linkrot...
December 22, 2024 at 1:38 PM
First link death, then linkrot...
related note but I hate what linkrot has done to all the mp3 blogs of the late 2000s, so many random songs and remixes that you can’t get anymore
November 3, 2024 at 7:11 PM
related note but I hate what linkrot has done to all the mp3 blogs of the late 2000s, so many random songs and remixes that you can’t get anymore
I was already noticing massive linkrot in the citations sections of Wikipedia articles ~10 years ago though.
June 10, 2023 at 6:50 PM
I was already noticing massive linkrot in the citations sections of Wikipedia articles ~10 years ago though.
Linkrot and chatbots is humanity becoming an oral culture again.
August 20, 2023 at 6:49 AM
Linkrot and chatbots is humanity becoming an oral culture again.