Link rot in a curated list

Dapps, bridges, infrastructure, official links, with a paragraph on each. It grew to 33KB, which is where the real problem starts.

A curated list this size decays. Projects rebrand, get acquired, quietly stop, or move domains and leave the old one parked with something unrelated on it. None of that produces a notification, so a year after the last real edit a meaningful fraction of entries point somewhere other than what they describe, and the list is actively misleading rather than merely stale.

The fix is automated link checking, and the reason it usually fails is worth being specific about. A checker flagging anything non-200 produces constant false positives, sites blocking CI user agents, 429s, Cloudflare challenges, fine redirects. A noisy check gets ignored, and an ignored check is worse than none because it looks like maintenance. The other half is inclusion criteria a reviewer can actually apply, without which the list becomes a queue approved on taste.

Useful for about six months, which is roughly how long a hand-maintained directory beats the official one. voodoo reads the same data from base.org’s own JSON and is strictly better.