Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)

Posted by Klaster_1 14 hours ago

Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)(www.w3.org)

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donatj 4 hours ago|

I find that every time major companies as well as most authors switch blogging systems even if they maintain their URLs broadly, their RSS feed url breaks.

Swizec 7 hours ago||

I've been trying to keep all URLs backwards compatible forever on swizec.com and it's surprisingly hard. I _think_ anything from 2010 onward should be good. The domain started in 2005.

Unfortunately I'll never know for sure.

nicbou 8 hours ago||

This is something I work really hard to maintain on my websites. I often refer to government websites as sources for my guides, and these URLs break at an alarming pace. It's as if the German government is moving reference pages and services around just for giggles. It creates a significant maintenance burden on my end.

When I worked for an ecommerce website, we spent weeks making sure every URL worked after a migration.

Nowadays it feels a little quaint because most of my 404s are from LLMs hallucinating URLs that never existed, sometimes for topics I never covered. I wonder what nonsense it attributes to me.

ricardo81 7 hours ago||

I recall some link rot research from ~10 years ago that estimated it was in the high single digit percentiles per year.

archive.org perhaps have/could have some interesting insights on it.

jruohonen 12 hours ago||

It is not only about "coolness" but long-term preservation too; that was one of the main motives behind DOIs.

shiandow 10 hours ago||

The headers that push a bit into the margin are an interesting stylistic choice, but why on earth does it have to be random? Did something change that affected the layout somehow? (ironically)

snthd 10 hours ago||

It's different for the different header levels.

https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/GuideStyle.css

    H1 { margin-left: -20%; }
    H2 { margin-left: -15%; }
    H3 { margin-left: -10%; }
    H4 { margin-left: -05%; }

al_borland 10 hours ago||

I find it works well for helping maintain context. I often can't easily tell the difference between different headers unless they're right next to each other, and even then some of them are difficult to discern. Adding the indentation is a way to make the hierarchy more clear.

moritzwarhier 7 hours ago||

Evergreen. Correct.

toomuchtodo 6 hours ago|

https://arks.org/

https://doi.org/

https://perma.cc/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenURL

_kb 5 hours ago|

https://specs.ipfs.tech/ipfs-uri/

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