# No more broken links, ever?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-more-broken-links-ever/395333>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [February 5, 2026, 10:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-more-broken-links-ever/395333 "2026-02-05T22:48:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![elmuerte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/elmuerte/32/456517_2.png) [@elmuerte](https://meta.discourse.org/u/elmuerte)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2026, 6:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/no-more-broken-links-ever/395333/3 "2026-02-06T06:38:31Z")

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The oldest post on my forum are more than 25 years old. Going back to them they are full of broken links. Then I migrated to Discourse I put a lot of effort into trying to prevent link rot from the old forum software URLs. But the rest of the internet quickly forgets their past addresses. In quite some cases the content is still their, just at a completely different location.

A feature like this would be incredibly helpful to also make older content on my forum worthwhile.

Sadly the Internet Archive can’t keep up with preserving the internet. When I looked at what it managed to archived after I migrated to Discourse, it is quite sad. Only a few pages of the indexable output of Discourse are preserved. IA’s archiver isn’t able to properly archive Discourse pages. (I wish IA could more correctly archive a Discourse site.)

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