Editing ancient posts to update broken links

it’s pretty common on these forums to post links to API documentation that may break after some time.

for example: here’s a 3-year old post by @johannesweiss :

it contains a link to

https://apple.github.io/swift-nio/docs/current/NIO/Structs/ChannelOptions.html#/s:3NIO14ChannelOptionsV8autoReadAC5TypesO04AutoE6OptionVvpZ

which no longer works. but from context, it’s clear he is referring to

discourse disables editing posts after a while. is there any workaround we can use to update these hyperlinks? despite their age, these posts would still be quite useful if the links were fixed.

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