Old book links on stack overflow gives 404

[sebffischer]

[pat-s]

I am not really sure what you mean here but I assume you mean some link posted in a SO question errors now?

We're quite lax with permalinks since ever here and should probably fix all section links at some point as otherwise they might change dynamically due to framework changes/updates.

[mllg]

I've changed the book structure a bit so that we don't have section names in the uri anymore. Let's hope that we have reached a stable version now.

[mllg]

If you want, you can comment the new links on SO, but IDK what else we can do. Providing redirects is currently not supported in our setup.

[jemus42]

Providing redirects is currently not supported in our setup.

Quarto does support redirects, which may be of help here?

[RaphaelS1]

I suggest we close for now as structure might change significantly again. We can then check all links to the book in one go.

[sebffischer]

But why close it? This way we risk forgetting it

[RaphaelS1]

Because the issue is too abstract to be useful. What links on SO? This is always an issue with anything on the internet! My suggestion is we do forget this now and once the book structure is finalised then we just replace links as we find them