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URL health checks and broken link alerts are live

Indexer now runs background URL health checks and surfaces broken-link status for cleanup workflows.

Indexer now runs background jobs that check saved URLs without slowing down the main bookmark flow.

What is changing

Indexer validates saved URLs in the background. The first version checks whether a URL is malformed, private or local-only, unreachable, redirected, or broken.

There is also a lightweight policy check for manually blocked hosts, obvious adult URLs, and obvious malicious or phishing-style URLs.

Why it matters

Bookmark libraries get stale. A link that worked when you saved it may break later, redirect somewhere unexpected, or become risky to keep around.

The goal is not to over-police your saved content. The goal is to give you useful signals and avoid syncing URLs that are clearly unsafe or broken.

What shipped

  • Background validation and policy checks through Redis/BullMQ workers.
  • Broken-link and blocked status in bookmark metadata for web and extension filtering.
  • Daily recap email integration for URL health signals in the current email pipeline.