Re: Removing old news from webpages

[Robbi Nespu <robbinespu@gmail.com>]

It's good to see the project being maintained, but it's sad to hear that news about Ian, the logo, and parts of Debian's background history were removed.  

Looking at the raw file, it appears to contain a lot of hardcoded elements. I assume the removal might have been due to outdated styling that doesn't align with modern design trends.  

Fortunately, since it's versioned in Git, the changes can be reverted if needed.  

My vote is to preserve this news content permanently—or at least migrate it to a new location. It should remain accessible in some form.

Regards,

Robbi Nespu

On Thu, 17 Jul 2025, 5:47 pm Martin, <debacle@debian.org> wrote:

On 2025-07-17 11:23, Jonathan Carter wrote:
> From my understanding, URL structure is a bit less of an issue, search
> engines in particular are good at dealing with it. However, the SEO
> value that we get from that huge history and incoming links is
> extremely valuable and it's something that money can't buy. Also,
> historical data, even though not as often referenced, is extremely
> valuable and I absolutely agree that it should be preserved and that
> the web team reconsiders this!

IMHO, we should definetively maintain all the historical pages
"forever", and also preserve their original URLs. But it might be useful
to have a header on historical pages, like The Guardian has:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2006/oct/13/dumpfirefoxsw

"🕑 This article is more than *18 years old*"