Timeline for What should I do when I see broken links in questions and answers?
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.askubuntu.com/ with https://meta.askubuntu.com/
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.askubuntu.com/ with https://meta.askubuntu.com/
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| Mar 17, 2017 at 10:13 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
replaced http://meta.askubuntu.com/ with https://meta.askubuntu.com/
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| Feb 17, 2014 at 5:02 | answer | added | Amith KK | timeline score: 3 | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 4:33 | comment | added | DK Bose | Added one. OP is still active and may see the comment. | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 4:29 | comment | added | Seth | That isn't a 404 error, so I'd just comment. | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 4:28 | comment | added | DK Bose |
Please see this example: askubuntu.com/q/233438/248158 OP was asked to post data and obliged but now links to data are giving me the message I showed. But it doesn't say 404
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| Feb 17, 2014 at 4:24 | comment | added | Seth | If you are getting a 404 error the page is most likely never coming back. If it's just "down" add a comment. | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 4:24 | comment | added | DK Bose | I think your advice to leave a comment is safest. Because a (small) server could be down for days and then get back online. Of course, there's the chance that the comment won't be seen but it's still better than fixing something that is only broken for few days. Thanks. | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 4:21 | comment | added | Seth | If the link is a 404 and it isn't part of a question, try to find a similar link and edit it. If you can't find a similar link, you might be able to just remove it but you might not as well, depending on the answer. Then add a comment. | |
| Feb 17, 2014 at 4:00 | history | asked | DK Bose | CC BY-SA 3.0 |