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Re: Removing old news from webpages

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Hello,

I just discovered this happened, in particular these two commits
https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/-/commit/e92471ba4917f0ec62d22e04229928e5531698f4
https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/-/commit/be8c189a8accd9bd381148c1a1a815c937e9fe2b

That are removing 25ish years of news.

I don't understand why.
One comment from the author states that this to not present outdated
news to users, but I feel this is bu**t.  If that was the reason proper
UI and decent filters in the right place (UX) would be much better.
One example could be to add categories to everything (or just to those
things you'd like to hide, like the security updates that are clearly
filling up the list of news), and have a different index list them.  But
the URI of the original ones should stay there.

It's not good to delete them and keep them deleted for months while
working on the new system, so please revent the commits now and work on
that later.


A LOT of those news where are referred from newspapers, other website,
bloggers, pretty sure I saw something on wikipedia as well, and have
been used as bibliography for documents.

It's one of the few websites I know of that hasn't changed much of the
URL structure since inception, and PRETTY PLEASE that's a feature, don't
stop now.


News articles should stay there forever, please revert the whole change,
or at the very least please provide a good reason for it that to be.



ty,
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Re: Removing old news from webpages (was: Peter Miller memorial page) Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> - 2025-01-03 23:30 +0100
  Re: Removing old news from webpages Mattia Rizzolo <mattia@debian.org> - 2025-07-14 21:10 +0200
    Re: Removing old news from webpages "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2025-07-17 10:30 +0200
    Re: Removing old news from webpages Martin <debacle@debian.org> - 2025-07-17 11:50 +0200
      Re: Removing old news from webpages Robbi Nespu <robbinespu@gmail.com> - 2025-07-18 00:30 +0200
    Re: Removing old news from webpages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-18 12:00 +0200
      Re: Removing old news from webpages "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2025-07-18 17:30 +0200
        Re: Removing old news from webpages Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-07-19 13:30 +0200
          Re: Removing old news from webpages Daniel Lange <DLange@debian.org> - 2025-07-19 14:10 +0200
            Re: Removing old news from webpages Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2025-07-19 18:30 +0200
      Re: Removing old news from webpages "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2025-07-18 18:00 +0200
        Re: Removing old news from webpages "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2025-07-19 22:10 +0200
    Re: Removing old news from webpages "Jonathan Dowland" <jmtd@debian.org> - 2025-07-24 18:30 +0200

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