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I think this is an elegant point. The URL is clickable and if you clone the repo you are still able to find that exact file from the link alone. Actually, I wo
by madsbuch 5y ago
I think this is an elegant point. The URL is clickable and if you clone the repo you are still able to find that exact file from the link alone.
Actually, I would use this argument that people should refrain from using url shorteners in papers for this very reason: It is anti-reproducible.
- wang_li 5y agoThe institution or publisher of the paper should maintain their own link shortener if this is something they want to use in the paper.
- dewey 5y agoThat's even worse than using some larger url shortener used by many people. The incentive to keep that one running are way larger than having it as side project of some publisher or university.
- markstos 5y agoA line in an Nginx file is easy to maintain. I’ve been neglecting some Nginx redirects for about 20 years that still work. At some point I did a fairly automated from Apache but otherwise the redirects have been zero maintenance. Notable, they I have broken since I own them!