David_Gerard comments on 96 Bad Links in the Sequences - Less Wrong

34 Post author: Alexandros 07 April 2011 10:39AM

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Comment author: David_Gerard 07 April 2011 12:02:57PM *  4 points [-]

Yes, particularly links to particular comments on OB that no longer link to the same comment on LW. This is very annoying when it's part of a point being made by a post.

Then there's dead external links, though fixing those would be slightly more work.

Well done for working on this very annoying problem.

Comment author: Alexandros 07 April 2011 12:06:11PM 3 points [-]

Cheers. If anyone's willing to make the changes to the articles, It's trivial to recinfigure my scraper to test external links for 404s.

Comment author: gwern 07 April 2011 03:15:19PM 3 points [-]

Or one could use a regular tool like link-checker to spider LW. I use it on gwern.net to good effect. (I've never thought of running it on LW because it would probably turn up so many broken links.)