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using bit.ly?
C'mon Microsoft... 90% of their links are not working anymore or pointing to other places
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that's 10% higher than if they were linking directly to their own content from more than 6 months ago. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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I pretty get almost all the "internal" links to work, many manual editions but still possible to make them work (some 404 though)
But there are a few series ".Net Essentials", "Modern Apps" and a couple more, mostly in "newer" issues (I would say from 2014 upwards) that rely a lot in bit.ly, iltic.com and other url shorteners... and those are failing in a huge % of the cases.
And I can't really find a logical reason, why the hell should be url-shorteners in such a publication. The length of the links is unrelevant, just change the "caption" and that is.
But hey... we speak about Microsoft. (Although being fair, here would be possible to name a lot of big companies)
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you have discovered MSDN is an unsalvageable train wreck, you have joined a multitude: i am sorry/
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Sorry about that - when they archived the MSDN Magazine, they lcased all the bit.ly links, breaking many. I had reported it (and they told me they fixed it). Which pages are you still seeing them on?
TTFN - Kent
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I can't say for sure right now, I would say around 12 non-working links in the 2017 issues (almost all the extern links). I can confirm tomorrow when I am back at work.
I can give you a list if you want. I have made a list for my own to avoid wondering why I don't have an example and searching again for it in the future.
Being a bit imaginative and looking at the system used to do the links I have been able to correct many of the problems with the internally archivated zip-files. I.e. missing the "vb" in "vbcode_XXXXX", having the wrong month (maybe same code valid for two monthly articles? I am not sure)...
I didn't make any notice about these solvable errors, but I would estimate there is a minimum 5% aprox. of wrong intern links.
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If you have the time, a list would be good. I'll hopefully be able to get those cleaned up.
Internal links also? Dang. Those should all be 301ing to their new home on Docs. ugh.
TTFN - Kent
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Kent Sharkey wrote: If you have the time, a list would be good. I'll hopefully be able to get those cleaned up.
Send me a private email to this message, so I get an address to write you back
Kent Sharkey wrote: Internal links also? Dang.
Yeah, but I have no list for that.
I have been downloading everything, so at least we can know what is still there. But the internal links that needed to be modify... I could go through again and and do a list, but that will need more time (priority for the 2nd round not that high).
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Live example found right now:
Using: MSDN Magazine Issues | Microsoft Docs[^] as main link.
I am now downloading 2018.
Link 2018, January, Digital Download is wrongly set to: download.microsoft.com/download/5/8/c/58c4e6cf-c261-4428-9529-9f0f8c2478da/mo_1701q1.pdf
I just opened the link of February 2018: download.microsoft.com/download/c/6/9/c6938ba7-02cf-49d0-b7bf-88fd88a04024/0218msdn_emag.pdf
and tried changing the second digit in the pdf name to:
download.microsoft.com/download/c/6/9/c6938ba7-02cf-49d0-b7bf-88fd88a04024/0118msdn_emag.pdf
I was successful and got the issue for January
And this is something I have done many times in different issues or code examples
EDIT: The extra Connect magazine 2018 has no clickety, I just tried
download.microsoft.com/download/c/6/9/c6938ba7-02cf-49d0-b7bf-88fd88a04024/1318msdn_emag.pdf
and it worked.
EDIT2: 2018 May. All Bit.ly links not working. Either 404 not found or they go to other websites that have nothing to do with programming.
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...The Times are rough! 
Ba-tish!
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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The Post will give you splinters!
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
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Yeah, that would be a pain in the... nevermind! 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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I'm going to give you a 9/10 for a very good dad joke 
Every day, thousands of innocent plants are killed by vegetarians.
Help end the violence EAT BACON
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Only use The Sun if it shines out your ...
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gave up on print newspapers; on-line news only
still haven't really got the hang of e-wiping my ass.
pestilence [ pes-tl-uh ns ] noun
1. a deadly or virulent epidemic disease. especially bubonic plague.
2. something that is considered harmful, destructive, or evil.
Synonyms: pest, plague, people
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Just use the Three Seashells, like everyone else does!
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Pravda and Izvestia were rough?
Soviet joke: In Pravda [Truth] there is no izvestia [news], and in Izvestia there is no pravda.
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You just wait until you run out of newspapers and have to use sandpaper...
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Wait until you run out of sandpaper and have to use Izal[^]... 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I had to look that stuff up.
Some of the old-time ads for it are downright hilarious.
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I thought I'd try one of these "toilet brushes" instead.
I don't recommend it, they're very messy and quite painful.
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I can imagine![^] 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Stout clubs put loner off(9)
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I know the answers which fits perfectly but the solution is baffling me.
cheers,
Super
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