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Code for the manim-generated scenes used in 3blue1brown videos
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Creating one folder per video to avoid broken links ? #36

Closed ocaleanam closed 2 years ago

ocaleanam commented 2 years ago

Taking as an example the last video about Worlde : originally, the link in the youtube video's description was this one. It has since been updated to that one in the description, but someone who would have saved the link somewhere else would face a 404 by trying to access it. For instance, on Grant's website the github link to the source code is still the old one (broken).

To avoid such situations where a video's code switches from a standalone file to a folder of files (refactor, more details, adding data, ...), maybe it could be a good idea to create a dedicated folder for each video, whatever how many files it contains. I don't know how often it happens, maybe this is too occasional to be a matter. Plus it is not too hard to fix the link when you have the wrong one (unless there are hundreds of videos in the _YYYY/ folder)

Have a good day =-)

3b1b commented 2 years ago

It's a good idea. If it looks like that becomes the norm, I'll change the convention.