My blog posts contain lots of dead links which now point to the Internet Archive.
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@Edent Not bad, but I don’t understand the rationale behind the superscript.
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@Edent Alt text for the logo would be great of course.
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JeffersonBledsoereplied to Terence Eden last edited by
@Edent Do you need to make users aware individually for each link that it is an archive? Or is a warning at the start of a page that contains archived links enough?
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@mora in written English, it is usual to put some meta text in superscript. For example footnotes, ibid, etc.
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Terence Edenreplied to JeffersonBledsoe last edited by
@JeffersonBledsoe I find it helpful when scanning lots of links. Knowing that one out of dozen *might* be, is less useful.
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Matthewreplied to Terence Eden last edited by [email protected]
@Edent my only thought was that I think if I was reading this without knowing already, I’d assume that was two links, the main one and some archive one for some reason I didn’t know (I’d miss that there’s only one underline). Perhaps “archived link” and not sure the superscript makes it clearer
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@dracos good shout. I'll experiment.
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@dracos @Edent I think I'd have some kind of instant pop-over title that says "archived link" when you mouse over it, but that isn't very friendly for phones.
Perhaps a JS interstitial overlay that explains the website is now gone and allows you to click through to the archive?
Any kind of icon is going to require people to have context for the meaning, and any text is going to ruin the flow of your writing.
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@Edent I went with this icon on my personal corner of the internet Though reading through the comments in this thread it looks like this might not have been the best idea.
It's added via CSS :after. I'm feeling slightly less guilty as links have the added data elements per https://robustlinks.mementoweb.org/spec/ but clearly can do better from an accessibility standpoint.
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@Edent I really enjoy the banner you use for necroposts. I use something similar to add "context from the future" sometimes.
A similar banner above posts that informs that some links have been replaced archive links because they were dead (where applicable) would be a really neat solution to my mind.
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@roelant That's a reasonable idea. I'll give it some thought.