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The original was posted on /r/datahoarder by /u/pw6163 on 2026-08-18 00:38:34+00:00.

I saw an article a couple of days ago about link rot, and how bad it really is. The author restored 657,507 links from 2009 and 2014, and followed each. 76% no longer returned a page, and some of those that looked OK just returned a variant of "this page is no longer available".

How many of us preserve interesting pages outside services like the WayBack Machine?

I keep content-only from a very small number of pages that touch on areas that I'm interested in, but over the last (maybe) 3 years I've only looked at but not necessarily kept less than 10% of the number of links in the article.

I do a bit better for PDF articles because a lot of them disappear too.

How much do you hoard?