Unfortunately most papers (that I have been involved with at least) have very specific size requirements and limits. Spending that much space on sharing the fil

Unfortunately most papers (that I have been involved with at least) have very specific size requirements and limits. Spending that much space on sharing the files is not something that can happen. Anything more than "[things] are available online at [URL]" is just going to take up too much space. (Although, from now on I might try to include two URLs) Besides, if / when GitHub ever shuts down, you know people will end up going through and cloning every repo on the system and archiving them at some similar url. So everyone can just visit it at notgithub.com/user/repo instead. Now, I agree that something like that would be awesome. I don't think its that easy to do. Its just not practical. GitHub / Lab are easy you just toggle a switch to make a repo public after the paper has been published, but other services may not be as easy. Especially trying to set up university urls, and keeping them private until after publication. For tech savvy people it might be fine, but not for all. Maybe it would be better if universities either hosted their own git repos, or even banded together and hosted something as a educational service? Rather than a for profit entity being where it is stored. The contact info for any author involved with the paper is going to be right there at the beginning of the paper. So IF something were to ever happen to the one link, contact is not going to be hard. Yes, there are risks, but it still gets the job done for the time being.