Re: Are websites closing down en masse? (distributed free standards and tools)

2023-12-18 Thread Joseph Turner via libreplanet-discuss
Hi Paul! "Paul D. Fernhout" writes: > On your question "What kinds of responses have you received to your > talk from the FSF or other groups/individuals?", I have not received > any responses I can recall. Beyond other factors limiting > communications, perhaps shaping standards is just not on

Re: Are websites closing down en masse? (distributed free standards and tools)

2023-12-15 Thread Paul D. Fernhout
Hi Joseph, Thanks for the reply and the links and so on. On your question "What kinds of responses have you received to your talk from the FSF or other groups/individuals?", I have not received any responses I can recall. Beyond other factors limiting communications, perhaps shaping

Re: Are websites closing down en masse? (distributed free standards and tools)

2023-12-13 Thread Joseph Turner via libreplanet-discuss
Hi Paul! "Paul D. Fernhout" writes: > Glad to read about "hyperdrive.el" by another poster as one more > alternative for distributed content. I personally enjoy working on > software in that area myself sometimes in my spare time. I welcome you to join our XMPP chat room to share ideas!

Re: Are websites closing down en masse? (distributed free standards and tools)

2023-12-13 Thread Paul D. Fernhout
A search on "average lifespan of a web page" (and similar) produces estimates ranging from forty days to just under three years (including an estimate supposedly derived from archive.org at some point). So, in general you are right that most web pages don't last very long, but this is not

Re: Are websites closing down en masse?

2023-12-08 Thread Joseph Turner via libreplanet-discuss
Hi Akira! Akira Urushibata writes: > Recently I feel I frequently encounter defunct links. Links to > external material toward the bottom of Wikipedia articles often turn > out to be unavailable. [...] > One possibility I can think of is that hosting services are somehow > affected by

Re: Are websites closing down en masse?

2023-12-05 Thread Paul Sutton via libreplanet-discuss
Hi I am not too sure if my experience counts here,  but yes I agree there are a fair number of broken links out there. I have maintained my own website / blog for a number of years. For a long time this ran on Wordpress, until the person who maintained the hosting was no longer able to

Re: Are websites closing down en masse?

2023-12-05 Thread Laurent Lyaudet
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Are websites closing down en masse?

2023-12-04 Thread Akira Urushibata
Recently I feel I frequently encounter defunct links. Links to external material toward the bottom of Wikipedia articles often turn out to be unavailable. I don't know if there is any empirical data on this. I can provide an example from a page I help maintain. From what I see here I am pretty