GitHub has been quite thoughtful about its deprecation timelines before, e.g. with long notice periods and brownouts. They're handling this quite badly. Person

GitHub has been quite thoughtful about its deprecation timelines before, e.g. with long notice periods and brownouts. They're handling this quite badly. Personally I don't see why they would care that it is used to shorten links to malicious redirects or whatever. But given that they do, the easy fix is to drop the github.io domain but keep the github.com domain. And in the interest of letting people update their URLs, returning the redirect URL as a response body instead of a 302.