getsol.us website has numerous dead links

[chrisdebian]

The getsol.us website has numerous dead links. I noticed this after following a GitHub link on the Hacktoberfest 24 blog page, and getting a 404 error.

It may be useful to use a tool to check the website for deadlines. I've used this one, in the past, but more experienced team members may know a better tool.

Just mentioning this, because it's good housekeeping, and also helps to get Solus to more people, as dead links impact the search engine optimisation (SEO).

Just trying to help.

Chris
chris_debian

[EbonJaeger]

There are over 4000 links in old blog posts to git.solus-project.com that are supposed to point to git commits for individual package updates. I don't know what to do about that; it's far too many to do by hand, and idk if something could be automated. The related question is how should they be fixed?

[davidjharder]

You can use the md-dead-link-check pip package.
Output here https://gist.github.com/davidjharder/2e031f6a1940d317f3edafb79e4ed761

Classes of dead links

• https://git.solus-project.com/packages/lsb-release/commit/?id=a7bcb26 git links with a commit ID
  • remove link, text remains
• /2016/03/02/solus-1-1-shannon-released/ Internal links
  • Check manually, hopefully correct to the right page
• https://dev.solus-project.com/R2210:f1c8e878367c5615d5957221524072f4c3f3502b phab links
  • remove link, text remains
• More ?