A website and email is one of the only means to control your own content.<p>Podcasts are starting to get centralised, like how Spotify bought out Anchor.<p>The alternative of hosting ones own podcast doesn't seem easy, nor seems cheap. I explored that idea for a big with my own podcast, The Language of My Soul, but it ain't worth it.
I would say email is more resilient than URIs, with the 6000-person mailing list you create 6000 copies of every message you send. And then on top of that mailing lists include archives going back a long time.
I reorganized some things on my website some time ago and set up 301 redirects. I looked at where the links were coming from.<p>The site with links to my site now consists of a placeholder page with a link to the Internet Archive. As much as I like stable URLs, I think that I would like to encourage people to just <i>keep as much online as possible,</i> and if you keep your content online, that’s commendable. It’s worthy of praise just staying online.
Okay, so about "cool URIs don't change".¹ 20 years ago I accepted this as obvious truth. Now I'm less sure.<p>URIs used to be like phone numbers, in that they were designed for humans — today, they're designed for SEO. But today, nobody memorizes phone numbers — people depend on their phone's Contacts app. Similarly, nobody remembers URIs beyond the domain name — they depend on bookmarks, browser history auto-complete, app-specific search functionality, and search engines.<p>Podcast feed URIs change all the time (old feed URIs redirect to new) and zero people know or care. I believe the same is generally true for web pages.<p>Playing devil's advocate to myself, AFAIK no browser automatically updates bookmarks even in the face of permanent redirects. They should, right?<p>¹<a href="https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI" rel="nofollow">https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI</a>
How do you preserve old URLs when porting between different website generators (Wordpress, Jekyll, other static sites) with different URL schemes for the same page?