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I understand closing git.io if they were having to spend too much time moderating it, but they could have limited it to links to github.com instead. We use git.
by baisq 4y ago
I understand closing git.io if they were having to spend too much time moderating it, but they could have limited it to links to github.com instead. We use git.io a lot on irc because channel topics have a short character limit and links to pages on github wikis/etc are useful.
- Dayshine 4y agoWasn't it already limited to github? It would be weird for them to create a general purpose link shortener.
- baisq 4y agoHonestly I have no idea. But if they were having issues with spam hosted on github.com, what problems does deactivating git.io solve? The spam still exists and it's hosted using their service. Just the link is a bit longer.
- Sharlin 4y agoThe short URL doesn't tell you where it's going to lead, so can be used to mislead people.
- hiptobecubic 4y agoThis is how all shorteners work, isn't it? Otherwise we just call them "links."
- Sharlin 4y agoYes, but it’s presumably why Github doesn’t want to maintain their own.
- shp0ngle 4y agothe issue seems to be that it included github pages, which can then redirect wherever.
- forgotpwd16 4y ago>they could have limited it to links to github.com instead Isn't this how it worked?
- vel0city 4y agoNo, you could use it to link to anything. Which is the stated reason why they're killing it off. It was being abused and Github/Microsoft didn't want to take the time to maintain/moderate it.
- ricardobeat 4y agoNothing stops you from using another link shortening service, git.io has no particular value or special integration with GitHub.