Dead links, archived repos, tools that got acquired and shut down. Six months after you publish, half your list is a graveyard and you have no idea. freshlist checks every entry and tells you exactly what died.
Runs a live check on every URL, repo, and package in your list. No crawling your whole site.
If it's a list of links, it's already decaying
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freshlist is the maintenance you never actually do. Not another list.
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Drop in an awesome-list section, a README's resource block, or a pile of bookmarks. freshlist checks every entry and flags what died. First few checks free.
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A list nobody maintains is worse than no list.
Readers trust it, click a dead link, and bounce. You look abandoned. The rot is invisible until someone complains in the comments, or just quietly leaves and never comes back.
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Every entry, checked like a human would.
Dead links and timeouts, GitHub repos gone archived or abandoned, tools that got acquired or renamed, packages pulled from the registry, docs that quietly moved. It reads the list and marks each one.
Freshness report · 12 entries
old-abandoned-tool.devdomain parked · 404dead
npm: requestdeprecated, unmaintainedstale
github.com/legacy/repoarchived 2 yrs agostale
caniuse.comfresh
5 of 12 links have rotted since you published.
It keeps watching
Re-checks so rot never sneaks back.
freshlist re-runs on a schedule and flags what decayed since the last pass, so a list you fixed in March doesn't quietly rot again by September.
Watching · re-checks weekly
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List health75%
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Search engines demote stale, broken pages, and AI answer engines skip them too. A list that stays current keeps ranking and keeps getting cited in AI answers.
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The free check audits one list. The pass keeps freshlist watching every list you own, re-checking on a schedule and flagging rot the moment it appears.