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by jessriedel 2217 days ago
Even after reading that page, I didn't understand that this was a suggestion to start regularly archiving old versions of the site and only sending visitors there if their link didn't point to anything on the current site. Instead, I thought the idea was that, for software reasons I don't understand, web developers commonly changed the subdomain name for the main site and this was just a method for reducing the number of broken links when such a change was made.

4042302.org definitely needs better explanations.