I thought this would be popular considering a large number of Hacker News readers use S3 for static hosting, especially given the rise in popularity of static s

I thought this would be popular considering a large number of Hacker News readers use S3 for static hosting, especially given the rise in popularity of static site generators like Jekyll. Lack of proper redirects has been a recurring issue, especially as if you do a HTML redirect (http-equiv="refresh") incorrectly it can negatively impact your search engine rankings. Github hosting still doesn't allow 301 redirects.