Another preview of Blog Audit, this time with my own blog. It’s a sad commentary on link rot. 🙁

@manton shame about the links. Wonder if it could fallback to the Internet Archive if not found. Browsers should build that in.

@vincent I’ve used a WordPress plugin that does that in the past. It would be good to see it built-in here.

@manton Just wait until they split the internet across political borders.

@vincent Yes, that’s exactly what it does! It checks every link to see if there’s a copy in the Internet Archive or in Micro.blog’s own bookmark archive. For my blog, on first glance looks like over half the broken links are saved in the Internet Archive.

@adders Cool, do you remember the WordPress plugin name? Always looking for inspiration.

@manton is it live, yet?

@numericcitizen Almost! It’ll be live in a couple hours.

@manton Ah, like the plugin “Wayback Link Preserver”
micro.blog/account/p…

@g Thanks for the reminder about your plug-in! I’ll link to it too when I blog about this.