Re: Removing old news from webpages

From	Martin <debacle@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.project
Subject	Re: Removing old news from webpages
Date	2025-07-17 11:50 +0200
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On 2025-07-17 11:23, Jonathan Carter wrote:
> From my understanding, URL structure is a bit less of an issue, search
> engines in particular are good at dealing with it. However, the SEO
> value that we get from that huge history and incoming links is
> extremely valuable and it's something that money can't buy. Also,
> historical data, even though not as often referenced, is extremely
> valuable and I absolutely agree that it should be preserved and that
> the web team reconsiders this!

IMHO, we should definetively maintain all the historical pages
"forever", and also preserve their original URLs. But it might be useful
to have a header on historical pages, like The Guardian has:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2006/oct/13/dumpfirefoxsw

"🕑 This article is more than *18 years old*"

Thread

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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