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What to do with non-functional pages

Open PureTryOut opened this issue 5 months ago • 5 comments

Due to the website currently being a static dump of the old interactive website a lot of things currently don't really work. Examples:

  • /services/m=bugtracker_v4/index-2.html. A page to report bugs, but those are supposed to be posted on GitLab instead and doesn't actually work
  • /services/m=advert. None of the pages there actually work, they're all blank.
  • /services/m=adventurers-log. I was actually excited when I saw this as I used to love the adventurer log, but sadly it doesn't work and there doesn't currently seem to be a way to retrieve the required info for such functionality at all.
  • /services/m=forum. Seems to be a dump of the old forum at the time. Quite a lot of pages are in there but no links actually work. I also wonder what the use is of keeping this around.
  • /services/m=itemdb_rs. The pages display, but the prices shown are completely outdated and wrong. I don't see use in keeping it around if it's not going to show updated info.
  • /services/m=poll. Well the pages work, but those are polls from 2009 and before. They're not linked anywhere either and the navigation bar on those pages link to non-existing pages.

There is probably more. If the goal is archival than I would rather let that be done by the Wayback machine (for example https://web.archive.org/web/20091208041147if_/http://www.runescape.com/title.ws) or keep that in a separate repo. Currently this repository is quite big to clone because of a lot of this stuff and it doesn't even represent the current state of 2009scape.

What are your thoughts?

PureTryOut avatar Jan 05 '24 14:01 PureTryOut