<story><title>How Websites Die</title><url>https://notebook.wesleyac.com/how-websites-die/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>fleddr</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d like to call out the somewhat related problem of website rot. Meaning, the websites is online, it once worked perfectly, but becomes increasingly dysfunctional due to technical deprecations.&lt;p&gt;The soft obligation to use HTTPS these days has deranked old HTTP-only websites in search, making them hard to find. These websites are also &amp;quot;defaced&amp;quot; with browser warnings or some subresources may not load at all.&lt;p&gt;Embedded maps no longer work, since Google regularly breaks their API.&lt;p&gt;Facebook login or other FB plugins no longer work, since it needs a yearly checkup of your account and there&amp;#x27;s the new requirement of needing to have a privacy policy.&lt;p&gt;Those are just some examples of websites partially breaking through no fault of its creator, if you&amp;#x27;d agree that the web should be backwards-compatible.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Websites Die</title><url>https://notebook.wesleyac.com/how-websites-die/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>spc476</author><text>It comes down to the person running the website &lt;i&gt;has&lt;/i&gt; to care.  That&amp;#x27;s it.  It doesn&amp;#x27;t matter how simple it is if the person doesn&amp;#x27;t care.&lt;p&gt;In my own case, I&amp;#x27;ve been running my own website for 24 years now [1].  The URLs I started out with have remained the same (although some have gone, and yes, I return 410 for those) and the technology hasn&amp;#x27;t changed much either (it was Apache 24 years ago, it&amp;#x27;s still Apache today; my blog engine [2] was a C-based CGI program, and it&amp;#x27;s still a C-based CGI program.  The rest of the site is static, and there&amp;#x27;s no Javascript (except for one page).  I can see it lasting at least six more years, and probably more.  But I care.&lt;p&gt;[1] Started out on a physical server (an AMD 586) and a few years later on a virtual server.&lt;p&gt;[2] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;spc476&amp;#x2F;mod_blog&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;spc476&amp;#x2F;mod_blog&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>