skyjake/lagrange Issue #672: Add an option to check for links

2024-06-15 14:52:25 trufae

Unfortunately, the geminisphere is not as stable as it should, and it's pretty common to find broken links here and there and it's a little frustrating to have to click and go back after realizing the server is down or the page was removed.

Despite this is more like a community issue and should be addressed with a crawler+messenger that contacts all gemini page servers to inform them about the broken links (which may end up into some really bad things if done recursively).

Lagrange can make a step forward do something about it:

• And add a button or option to check all links in current page and mark as broken the non working ones and cache the ones that work

or

• Check if the page exists before loading it so the user just see's a broken link (represented with a strikethrogh or sthg)

probably the latest is the less harmful solution. ^^

PD: thanks for maintaining such a wonderful piece of software

Comments (1)

2024-06-28 09:31:55 skyjake

And add a button or option to check all links in current page and mark as broken the non working ones and cache the ones that work

This could be a reasonable tool to add.

The checking of pages and the local caching/archiving could be optional actions in the same tool. There is an existing related issue (#514).