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*"
