Questions tagged [broken-link]
For discussing the effects of broken links within posts and comments across the network, what to do with them, and how we can prevent them from becoming broken.
22 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Goo.gl links will stop working on August 25, 2025, which will break them in posts
Google's link shortener "goo.gl" was disabled back in 2018, but existing links still redirect to their destination.
However, according to this Google blog, on August 25, 2025, these links ...
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Deleted questions and broken links
With the massive "spring cleaning" going around the SE + the normal heavy deletion going on + the automatic deletion recently I'm starting to worry about the amount of dead links SE is creating.
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All elections you did not vote for have results with a dead link to OpaVote download page
This is what the election result usually looks like when you did not vote in that election (example from Islam but I can reproduce it on Solana and Board & Card Games and probably plenty others):
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Broken image link on the new Stack Exchange blog
Before I jump on to the problem, let me first congratulate Jon Chan and his team for the newly re-designed Stack Exchange blog. I like it very much, great job!
While searching on Google, I stumbled ...
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Link in the question status block leads to the wrong site
In the questions on enSO there is a block (shown only to users with an Accept-Language header for a given language), which suggests one to find an answer on a localized site.
I see this block in ...
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Links to old Google product forums are broken
TL;DR: 3,332 posts from multiple communities have links to productforums.google.com. Source. Apparently all these links are "broken" (they are redirected to the homepage of a community ...
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Dead link in the 'create chat room' page
The 'create a new chat room' page has a dead link. There is a link to 'the help center', trying to go to https://stackexchange.com/help/licensing, but that link doesn't go anywhere anymore.
I was ...
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How should paywalled content be handled in the broken link checker?
I did try out the new, still under development "Broken links" tab of the review page. And while it certainly points out a lot of truly broken links that need to be fixes, I noticed certain categories ...
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The link is broken when I click “Enter this room” in “Chat Event Reminder” in my inbox
When I click the enter this room link in the “chat.meta.stackexchange.com - Chat Event Reminder” inbox (in Gmail, not the Stack Exchange inbox),
it leads me to an error page: (the link)
Why that ...
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Characterizing broken external links on Stack Overflow
I extract all external links in the text blocks in Stack Overflow posts and comments. 14.2% of the links on Stack Overflow are broken links. Posts with broken links receive fewer votes after the links ...
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URL redirection for promos link throws "The resource cannot be found" page
In some of the posts, the link for the promotion page is pointing to https://stackexchange.com/promos. This was obsolete and it automatically redirect to https://contests.stackoverflow.com/promos, but ...
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User link in HNQ list on StackExchange.com breaks when user is deleted
It doesn't happen that often, but when a question by a deleted user becomes a Hot Network Question, the link to the user on the Hot Questions page on StackExchange.com breaks:
From the URL itself, ...
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Area 51 Discussion Zone privileges link is sending to a page that does not exist
When clicking on the privileges link from within my users tab:
I was taken to http://area51.stackexchange.com/help/privileges:
It needs to be updated to take you to 1 of 2 places.
The first ...
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In comments, `_foo_` in links breaks the HTML link target href
I tried to link in a comment to this image:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/85/Concorde_Cockpit_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1357498.jpg
However, it gets cut off semingly at a pair of ...
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Web archive link redirects to Stack Overflow host (resulting in error page)
Problem:
Some links will redirect you to a Stack Overflow error site even though they're correct (as in DOM/HTML representation).
Test cases which now work:
Link in question body here: http://web....
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Should we fix postimg.org links to postimg.cc?
For some reason, I can't access https://postimg.org anymore.
For instance, on Stack Overflow, we have 6,605 posts with broken images on postimg.org.
But I noticed that the mirror https://postimg.cc ...
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Broken link to area51 page
The sidebar on the right at https://rus.stackexchange.com/ links to an Area51 page at http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/lookup/rus.stackexchange.com.
Regrettably, that page returns an Error ...
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Broken or wrong links in Security Hall of Fame
The Security Hall of Fame contains two problematic links:
The link to jeremy.ca points back to Stack Overflow.
The link to Russel Van Laurio facebook profile leads to 404 Page Not Found error ...
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"Stack Exchange Moderator Elections Begin" blog post has broken links
The blog post Stack Exchange Moderator Elections Begin has two broken links:
The "over 60 days" link:
It points to https://blog.stackoverflow.com/2010/09/our-first-area-51-site-goes-public/...
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Link validator points to wrong link
I edited this answer with an improved version today:
Function to INSERT dynamic list of columns in multiple tables
When trying to submit I got an error message from the link validator:
Links to ... ...
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Automatically detect broken links in old posts and add them to the review queue
Some questions and answers on Stack Exchange have broken links. And sometimes those are important links in accepted or most upvoted answers. However unless someone leaves a comment about the broken ...
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Add a filter to see all broken links from a single domain
It would be very useful to have a filter in the "Broken Links" tab of the review page that would show all broken links from a single domain.
Some sites that are used frequently on certain sites (...
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