I didnāt see any mention of how the Moderators would feel about the extra tasks of checking links, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly? Hmmm? Or do visitors and members need to report them?
How many would bother to point out the bad link?
Does Discourse have a option to view errors in itās own system? Is it possible to make Discourse test links and then re-linking or editing the post with [this link is dead] notification beside it?
From the number of errors I get, Iād suggest that all the help information and How-toās be listed on one page, as a Index so to speak.
My side beef with errors is I have found it more efficient and accurate if I go to a Search Engine, or Google and search for/google exact phrase.
So I tested the following:
Information needs to be corrected on Posts, Products, and Shop pages
I will get:
This site canāt be reached
The webpage at Information needs to be corrected on Posts, Products, and Shop pages
might be temporarily down
Note that # near the right side. Thatās why search engines and Google get a error.
What I do, when I get that 404, is to go to the end of the URL and add /1
and since there is a post, there must be a 1st post and I get to the Topic page containing the related pages.
The above is a example. But I stepped X stepped through it to make sure.
I do that with (/1) almost every search starting with ālibrem 5ā and search keywords. Google is getting better, itās the search engines that choke on it.
Too, some external links within a post that sometimes donāt count. (the numbers that indicate how many clicks the link gets).
To the question, No, why burden the Mods with extra work?