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Narutoforums: Broken Links

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I inserted links to the Wayback Machine and Google Cache in the original post.
 
Ok, i put them into Google Cache and have the pages. Should i put them into a thread or blog post so we don't lose them?
 
If they are calculations that we use, you should replace the links for the profiles that do so.
 
Also, before we potentially make a widespread mistake, how reliable is Google Cache?

Are the pages there stored for the long haul, as with the Wayback Machine, or are they just temporary for a few months at most?

If it is the latter, it is by far preferable to use the names of the calculation pages to search in the Naruto forums for the new URL locations.
 
@697086 Okay. I hope that you are right. Can others who are informed about the issue confirm this?
 
@Kav: Using the external link searcher brings out hundreds, if not thousands of links that you have to browse through. This makes finding exact links to a specific profile very difficult, if not impossible to do in a reasonable amount of time.

Perhaps if the people here can through the profiles for each tiering, see/replace any broken NK links that would be for the best.

There is a statement where Google web seems to update itself every week or something. Now I am wondering, if Google web updates every week, how would that affect the links?
 
That is what I am worried about. Perhaps we should stick with the Wayback Machine, and searching the Narutoforums blog archive for the names of the calculations?

Also, I would appreciare if you could ask the Narutoforums administrators if it would be possible to migrate the blog post calculations to the same URLs as before? If they do that it would be incredibly appreciated, and help them as well, as the OBD wiki also links to them.
 
Perhaps we should wait a week or two before updating links to see what would happen to the Google cache links. However, it seems that Google cache takes a snapshot of the page and stores it, meaning that the snapshot itself will last for a long time.

I will ask the NF admins if they could migrate the blog post calculations to the same URLs.
 
Thank you very much for the help. It would be extremely appreciated if they could do so.
 
I am uncertain, and would appreciate if somebody could search for the specifics of Google cache storage times. If it is recurrently updated, it will simply link to a copy of the "404" error page after all.

Also, Please do not remove any profile links to the Naruto Forums. If you do, people will get the wrong impression that the statistics in question are based on nothing. And the calculations still exists. They have simply switched URL. If they remain, others can search for and replace the links later.
 
@Ant: The profile links to NF have not been removed, but rather, the link itself has been changed via Google cache. Let's just wait and see.
 
No. I mean that some members have started to remove currently nonfunctional links from the profile pages.
 
Well, idk how everyone else does it, but the way I do it is I find the broken link and search it on google. Ex: narutoforums blog 26438 (Samurai Jack's sun dodge) and go use googles' webcache, find the user here then find the blog with the same name and re-add the new link.
 
Okay. Thank you for the information. That seems like a good approach.
 
Hey Canis's way actually works way faster than what i did. Huh.

Edit: Nvrmind, it worked for a bit until it just stopped and didn't work due to some of the calcs not being "cached" or something. -_-
 
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