NT101 FSB issue session 68

Matt Hamrick

This one baffles me, this is actually the fourth or fifth time going through this course. Pretty sure this worked in the past, but today in session 68 the FSB cannot be displayed for whatever reason. Probably the FSB changed and the link to the General Letters is no longer working. Please update the course.

PetahChristian

What baffles me is how updates to resources are permitted to be made, without ensuring that links to that updated resource weren't broken in the process.

• Given a bidirectional relationship, other resources should simultaneously be updated to fix their links to an article.
• Even in the unlikely worst case where there is only a many-to-one relationship and you have no knowledge of what other resources link to a specific article, you can scan all the resources before updates are shipped, to catch links that have broken due to recent changes.

A tech company whose product is dependent on linked resources should be able to automatically ensure referential integrity of inverse relationships between resources before shipping updates.

I understand that some existing processes take up to a day to run, and there's a cost to everything, but the system is clearly broken when a company capitalizes on the "free" detection and reporting of broken links by the customer.