Git.io shutdown #24621
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Can we get a bit more insight into the shutdown of git.io? Some kind of timeline would be nice. Heck, it would have been nice to know in advance that new URLs would no longer be accepted at some future date. One does not simply expect a large company like Microsoft to turn stuff off without warning. Above all, don’t forget that GitHub’s own Twitter account uses |
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Bump, and also a proposal: submit the existing |
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Hi there 👋 ! As of April 27, 2022, GitHub will now be preserving git.io links in their read-only formats, these links will not be deprecated. Though we may remove individual links that point to spammy, malicious, or 404 links, we have decided to archive the current git.io links in a new read-only service that will allow us to serve redirects for those links longer term. GitHub support will not be able to update or edit redirection records served by the git.io archive service. What began as an experiment in 2011, git.io was only lightly documented and thus not heavily used, however, git.io has increasingly been used for malicious purposes. Since January 2022, new link creation on git.io has ceased and we encourage users to make use of one of the many URL shortening services available with greater functionality than the git.io service provided. To learn more, click here. |
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Hi @liligalante, Thanks for the update. I was dismayed by the blog post earlier this week that git.io links would stop working in just four days. The update yesterday about transitioning to long-term read-only infrastructure instead of a hard shutdown was welcome news. The stated reasons for no longer accepting new links don’t really make sense to me (how can a URL shortener be a security risk if it only allows links from GitHub-controlled domains?) but I do respect that I don’t have the full picture as a user—while your team has the entire millions-strong link database to analyze. 😺 I’ll continue to help projects I see using these deprecated links move away from the service, but all of us appreciate GitHub keeping the links available anyway for use cases that can’t be easily changed! |
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@dgw thanks for sharing your perspective, it was members like you who helped us understand all the different use cases for these links and led to the 4/27 update. |
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Hi there 👋 ! As of April 27, 2022, GitHub will now be preserving git.io links in their read-only formats, these links will not be deprecated. Though we may remove individual links that point to spammy, malicious, or 404 links, we have decided to archive the current git.io links in a new read-only service that will allow us to serve redirects for those links longer term. GitHub support will not be able to update or edit redirection records served by the git.io archive service.
What began as an experiment in 2011, git.io was only lightly documented and thus not heavily used, however, git.io has increasingly been used for malicious purposes. Since January 2022, new link creation on git.io ha…