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A new feature is going to be launched this weekend. I’ve talked about it before. In an attempt to better clean up and keep clean, the search index, I’ve implemented a “report dead link” feature. What you will see is, on category and search result pages, a little link next to each result (after the description of each link): [report dead link]

Now, its important to note that this cannot be abused in anyway. If a user clicks that, all that happens is, I’m notified that a given link was reported as dead, and that link has a new flag (in the database) called “isReported.” This WILL NOT REMOVE the link from the database. In fact, a user can click on “report dead link” all day and nothing will actually happen.

What I will see, in my administration screen, is a list of links that have been reported as “dead,” which I can then review myself. If the link truly is dead, then I can de-activate the link  (not delete it). This will mean that the link will not show up in search results or on category pages, but gives the link owner an opportunity to fix things.

Along with this new feature, the FAQ section of the main site will be updated and has been reorganized. Also, I’ll be doing a slight design tweak to the t-shirts (hmm, always a designer, have to tweak tweak tweak!).

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