Re: test.openeuphoria.org is open to the world
- Posted by CoJaBo2 Jan 16, 2013
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My understanding was that Google expired links after a time, so once we add the password and wait patiently long enough, those links will go away. In the mean time, anyone who tried to use the incorrect versions of the links will get the Auth dialog - which can be fine tuned to explain how to get to the real version.
In theory, yes- they should die off eventually. In practice, once a link is published, it near-instantly becomes permanent- I'm still seeing traffic to some of my own links that were removed 14 years ago!
I did a major restructuring of another site about a month ago, and hits to the old links still make up a bit more than half of incoming traffic.
No, it isn't critical to do this, but it doesn't take a whole lot of effort to do the redirect either; and it saves anywhere from "a few" to "a ton" of people headaches.
