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A dump of the shortlink dataset would be appreciated, even if it was only the links that point to public GitHub repos or gists. Link-rot is annoying, but GitHu
by captn3m0 5y ago
A dump of the shortlink dataset would be appreciated, even if it was only the links that point to public GitHub repos or gists.
Link-rot is annoying, but GitHub could do better here.
- charcircuit 5y agoOr at least just host an immutable endpoint in a subdirectory if you want to repurpose the domain.
- derefr 5y agoThey don't; they want to take down the 99% of git.io links that are pointing to malware / phishing, and they don't want to spend all their time manually culling them.
- charcircuit 5y agoThey could add a giant warning page where you have to copy and paste the link manually. There should still be some way to follow old links.
- dotancohen 5y agoThis would be the proper solution. The service could even just return an HTML page with a hyperlink instead of a 301 redirect.
- tinus_hn 5y agoOr require solving a captcha.