diff --git a/bugs.md b/bugs.md
index df8dc8c1c..6b62c03fc 100644
--- a/bugs.md
+++ b/bugs.md
@@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ If not enough args are specified this program will likely crash or do something
 else. This should NOT be fixed.
 
 ## [1994/ldb](1994/ldb/ldb.c) ([README.md](1994/ldb/README.md))
-## STATUS: known bug - please help us fix
+## STATUS: INABIAF - please **DO NOT** fix
 
 [Cody Boone Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) fixed this to compile
 with modern systems (see the [thanks-for-fixes.md](thanks-for-fixes.md) file for
@@ -761,10 +761,10 @@ also overflow long lines.  Cody changed it to `fgets()` to prevent the display
 problem but this introduces another problem namely that newlines can be printed
 if the line length < 231.
 
-This seems like a worthy compromise but it would be ideal for it to never print
-a newline unless that's the line itself (a blank line).
-
-Cody will be looking at this later on.
+This seems like a worthy compromise to not have messed up output and although it
+would be ideal for it to never print a newline unless that's the line itself it
+might be tampering too much with the entry as it's not a real problem and as a
+one liner it's already quite long.
 
 
 ## [1994/schnitzi](1994/schnitzi/schnitzi.c) ([README.md])(1994/schnitzi/README.md))
diff --git a/thanks-for-fixes.md b/thanks-for-fixes.md
index e4b60bf58..a0cb74553 100644
--- a/thanks-for-fixes.md
+++ b/thanks-for-fixes.md
@@ -13,9 +13,10 @@ Ferguson](/winners.html#Cody_Boone_Ferguson) who is responsible for many of the
 improvements including many, many complicated bug fixes like
 [2001/anonymous](2001/anonymous/anonymous.c), making entries not require
 `-traditional-cpp`, fixing entries to compile with clang, providing alternate
-code where useful or necessary, typo and consistency fixes. Thank you **very
-much** for your extensive efforts in helping improve the IOCCC presentation of
-past IOCCC winners and making many work with modern systems!
+code where useful or necessary, fixing where possible dead links and otherwise
+removing them, typo and consistency fixes. Thank you **very much** for your
+extensive efforts in helping improve the IOCCC presentation of past IOCCC
+winners and making many work with modern systems!
 
 [Yusuke Endoh](/winners.html#Yusuke_Endoh) supplied a number of
 important bug fixes to a number of past IOCCC winners. Some of
@@ -625,9 +626,11 @@ Cody also changed the entry to use `fgets()` instead of `gets()` to make it safe
 for lines greater than 231 in length and to prevent a warning at linking or at
 runtime, the latter of which can be interspersed with output of the program.
 Note that this now prints a newline after the output but this seems like a
-worthy compromise for making the output incorrect in macOS and at the same time
-it's safer (fixing it to not have the extra newline is more problematic than
-it's worth and in macOS another line of output would be shown anyway).
+worthy compromise for preventing the interspersed output in macOS and at the
+same time it's safer (fixing it to not have the extra newline is more
+problematic than it's worth and in macOS another line of output would be shown
+without the change anyway and the difference is that now it's just a blank line
+rather than an annoying warning).
 
 A subtlety about this fix: if a line is greater than 231 in length if the
 program chooses that line it might print the first 231 characters or it might