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		forinti on Oct 23, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Coding Horror: Treating User Myopia We've recently had to put up a "You have a stale link and will be forwarded shortly..." page. As expected, people started calling us to ask why the system wasn't working.

wyday on Oct 23, 2009 [–]

Maybe they don't know what "stale link" means. If I saw that I'd be confused too. Can't you just silently redirect?

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