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A broken link is a broken promise. We help authors keep links in their books functional and gain insight into what gets clicked. Built by @arvidkahl.

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@GergelyOrosz @UberEng Glad to have helped. Thank you for the kind shoutout.

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Today @UberEng removed a blog post I frequent referred to from their engineering blog: Keeping master green at scale.

How do I know? This post is linked in my book Building Mobile Apps at Scale and @permanentlinkhq noticed me that the link broke.

And, indeed: it’s gone.

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There are few feelings like the joy you feel when the SaaS you have been building to solve your own problem actually solves your own problem.

Someone deleted a Tweet that I linked to in my last book. Now that link automatically links to the archived snapshot of that tweet. 🤩

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@natension @jones_spencera @chpmnk_app I feel you.

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@BorisTane @arvidkahl There are a few interesting ideas:

- isomorphic rendering
- allow/block lists
- simple server-side checks

https://t.co/ZaWOjU5jYQ

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@GetTheAudience Thank you! Glad to see someone “getting” it. Must be a common theme for you ;)

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@radiomorillo The worst part: they might not even know that content gets lost, since no one really understands all the locations and mediums that are being used in an organisation, particularly if they are legacy infrastructure.

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This is exactly why PermanentLink exists. Platforms change and content rots away or gets wiped out.

PermanentLink uses the Wayback Machine from the start. The moment you create a new link, we tell the Web Archive to archive it. Once it breaks, we redirect there immediately.

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@AdamKozak That's a wonderful idea. I'd love to see this being part of the editorial process, not an afterthought.

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@agladman We whole-heartedly agree :)

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@scholz_felix @arvidkahl That's pretty much exactly what it is. Thanks for that tagline, this should make it immediately clear for developer authors :D

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Guess it's time to start talking about eBooks, link rot, and how PermanentLink can help authors make sure that their links keep working for a long time!

https://t.co/AUpFgH7plr