# Https://rules.sonarsource.com down **URL:** \ **Category:** Rules and Languages\ **Tags:** rules\ **Created:** [February 5, 2026, 8:05pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/https-rules-sonarsource-com-down/177294 "2026-02-05T20:05:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![karlhorky](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/sonarsource/user_avatar/community.sonarsource.com/karlhorky/32/77560_2.png) [@karlhorky](https://community.sonarsource.com/u/karlhorky)\ **Post date:** [September 19, 2026, 5:10pm UTC](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/https-rules-sonarsource-com-down/177294/7 "2026-09-19T17:10:06Z")
I found this thread while digging into the related RSPEC removal. Andrea Malagodi , Since you mentioned above that SonarSource was “working to fill the gap”, is there any public update on that work? I found quite a bit of downstream breakage while looking into this. `rules.sonarsource.com` is now `NXDOMAIN`, and GitHub code search still reports about 13,760 files referencing it in total. On the RSPEC side I also found hundreds of broken references in SonarJS and other repos. I posted the details and one possible alternative here: > [@Rspec github repository is gone/private?](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/rspec-github-repository-is-gone-private/177308/7): > > I ended up here after finding the downstream effects of making the RSPEC repository/site private. The SonarSource/SonarJS repo still contains many public links to sonarsource.github.io/rspec, which now redirect users through GitHub authentication instead of showing the rule documentation: I signed up for this Discourse to figure out what happened to these public docs. I count 923 sonarsource.github.io/rspec occurrences across 626 committed files in SonarJS alone. GitHub code search also… And the `eslint-plugin-sonarjs` case here: > [@Eslint-plugin-sonar Links to rule docs broken on GitHub page](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/eslint-plugin-sonar-links-to-rule-docs-broken-on-github-page/178145/7): > > Victor, hey waving_hand nice to see you again on the SonarSource message boards. I came here because I’m still seeing many broken rule documentation links in the SonarSource/SonarJS repo: I signed up for this Discourse to find out why the public docs are now missing. I checked the change you made after this report. It looks like it removed the broken RSPEC links from two generated tables, but the main ## Rules table still contains 295 of them. And it seems to go quite a bit further t… --- _[View the full topic](https://community.sonarsource.com/t/https-rules-sonarsource-com-down/177294)._