diff --git a/docs/intro/examples.rst b/docs/intro/examples.rst
index b09eed874..40a124679 100644
--- a/docs/intro/examples.rst
+++ b/docs/intro/examples.rst
@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ It contains a README file with a detailed description of the project contents.
 If you're familiar with git, you can checkout the code. Otherwise you can
 download a tarball or zip file of the project by clicking on `Downloads`_.
 
-There is also a site for sharing code snippets such as spiders, middlewares,
-extensions, or scripts, called `Scrapy snippets`_. Feel free to share any code
-there.
+The `scrapy tag on Snipplr`_ is used for sharing code snippets such as spiders,
+middlewares, extensions, or scripts. Feel free (and encouraged!) to share any
+code there.
 
 .. _dirbot: https://github.com/scrapy/dirbot
 .. _Downloads: https://github.com/scrapy/dirbot/archives/master
-.. _Scrapy snippets: http://snippets.scrapy.org/
+.. _scrapy tag on Snipplr: http://snipplr.com/all/tags/scrapy/
diff --git a/docs/news.rst b/docs/news.rst
index c454efcc2..4a56abc8a 100644
--- a/docs/news.rst
+++ b/docs/news.rst
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ API changes
 
 - ``url`` and ``body`` attributes of Request objects are now read-only (#230)
 - ``Request.copy()`` and ``Request.replace()`` now also copies their ``callback`` and ``errback`` attributes (#231)
-- Removed ``UrlFilterMiddleware`` from ``scrapy.contrib`` (already disabled by default) - see this snippet for a replacement: http://snippets.scrapy.org/snippets/12/
+- Removed ``UrlFilterMiddleware`` from ``scrapy.contrib`` (already disabled by default)
 - Offsite middelware doesn't filter out any request coming from a spider that doesn't have a allowed_domains attribute (#225)
 - Removed Spider Manager ``load()`` method. Now spiders are loaded in the constructor itself.
 - Changes to Scrapy Manager (now called "Crawler"):