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.
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Broken “Show all” links to starred messages in several Chat rooms on ru.stackoverflow.com
In a chat room used as a lobby, the Show all link that should lead to all starred messages contains an extra / at the end:
https://chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/156016//?tab=stars
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Area 51 - broken links on privilege page
All the links on the Area 51 privileges pages are broken: https://area51.stackexchange.com/privileges
Some sample privilege page links:
Privilege
URL
leave comments
https://area51.stackexchange.com/...
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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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The tags on the stackexchange.com/tour should not be clickable [duplicate]
Related: Tag popup is obscured on the Tour page
Go to Stack Exchange tour page.
Click the tags shown (the unicorn and the daisies tag) in the tour page.
Links to broken page.
The bug is simple, the ...
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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 link ...
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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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Blog links to /category pages are broken
Related but not the same issue: Blog post redirects without the /dd/ in the URL are broken
This link: https://blog.stackoverflow.com/category/cc-wiki-dump/
Should correctly lead to a list of blog ...
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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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What is the right way to deal with links to sites with viruses?
This question is meant to ask for general guidance - although I will mention a specific example. (It is not my intention to call out a specific user - simply the issue is better explained on an ...
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Bulk Fix possible for "Old New Thing" links? Important Win32 resource
I keep running into broken links to Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog posts, which are a very valuable resource for winapi / win32 programmers. There are probably close to a thousand of them site-...
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Fix broken links to Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics
There are quite a few links in the network (148 when I'm writing this, mainly on Cross Validated, Mathematics and MathOverflow) to the Virtual Laboratories in Probability and Statistics hosted at ...
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"edit your question" link on author-only guidance on duplicate questions has wrong URL on sites other than Meta Stack Exchange
When a question is closed as duplicate, the post owner has their own guidance to edit their question. The guidance also include "edit your question" link.
The link is supposed to redirect ...
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Does the bulk replacement tool also check if the new link is working?
Sometimes (on the request of the local community), the CMs mass replace some dead links by new ones. See, for example, this post (and Shog9's answer): How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on ...
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Can I update a link in a post by another person if both old and new links were written by me?
A page I wrote on a website I used to run has been edited in a way that makes it less useful.
I have a new website with a better version of this information.
If someone on Stack Exchange has linked to ...
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Can the mass-replacement tool also replace and remove?
Stack Exchange staff has a tool which can change a bunch of links without bumping the edited posts, see here: How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on a site?
In the situation that I've seen ...
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