Re: Taler press release of 17 June 2021 badly linked by Planet GNU: Fixable on our site?

[Christian Grothoff]

Hi Bastian,

Thanks for the long report, I think I've fixed the links now (both for
the GNUnet and GNU Taler RSS feeds.)

-Christian

On 6/21/21 5:57 PM, hyazinthe@emailn.de wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> when you visit https://www.gnu.org/ today and have a look at the embedded 
> Planet GNU news window at the upper part of the site on the right, one of the 
> three news snippets is said Taler press release:
> 
> ' *How to issue a privacy-preserving central bank digital currency*: We are 
> happy to announce the publication of our policy brief on"How to issue a 
> privacy-preserving central bank digital currenc...'
> 
> The part between the  two *'s has a clickable link, this one: 
> https://taler.net/en/news/news/2021-06.html
> 
> Clicking on it doesn't lead to the teasered news, but instead to
> 
> '404 Not Found
> nginx'
> 
> Visiting https://planet.gnu.org/ the news snippet is a bit more extended and 
> has more links:
> 
> 
> 'June 16, 2021
> #GNU Taler news#
> *How to issue a privacy-preserving central bank digital currency*
> We are happy to announce the publication of our policy brief on"How to issue 
> a privacy-preserving central bank digital currency" by The European Money and 
> Finance Forum.
> 
> *16 June, 2021 10:00PM* '
> 
> The part between the two #'s has a working link, leading to 
> https://taler.net//
> 
> The both parts between two *'s have the same problem as experienced with the 
> embedded Planet GNU window on gnu.org.
> 
> Following the working link of said part between the two #'s, and scrolling 
> down the website to the news section reveals, that the correct link to said 
> press release is the following and, of course, finally leads to said complete 
> news one originally got interested by the news snippets on gnu.org and Planet 
> GNU: https://taler.net/en/news/2021-06.html
> 
> I thought it's useful to inform you about this flaw, because you're certainly 
> interested in getting this news item out as good as possible and by knowing 
> that flaw you maybe can fix it one way or another. I don't know if the wrong 
> link is from somewhere on the Taler website and correctly grapped by Planet 
> GNU, or if the flaw originates from Planet GNU itself.
> In the first case, maybe the link can be found and fixed, in the later case, 
> maybe GNUnet team can inform Planet GNU team, so that the Planet GNU team can 
> fix the link - maybe for now regarding said news or sustainably so that this 
> flaw doesn't happen again in future grapped press releases of Taler.
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Bastian Schmidt
> 
> 
>

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