Yo, what link does goo.gl/fd3zc even point to?

[foxsouns]

goo.gl has been dead for like, years. What link does that get sent to at the end? Just wondering.

[betapictoris]

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dnschneid/crouton/master/installer/crouton

[foxsouns]

Awesome haha. Guess I should've guessed something like that.

[DennisLfromGA]

@foxsouns ],

goo.gl has been dead for like, years.

It is not dead, the current links still work, you just cannot add any more links to it.

Hope this helps,
-DennisLfromGA

[saltedcoffii]

Have we considered switching to a git.io link?

[betapictoris]

As @DennisLfromGA goo.gl work, you just cannot add more.
If you wanted a git.io link you could us https://git.io/JZEs0, although it is not the official link.

[dnschneid]

Looks like git.io is URL-hash based, not ownership based. So https://git.io/JZEs0 is as official as it could get...

For now we'll stick with the familiar goo.gl/fd3zc, but if something happens to that link, git.io seems like a good second choice.

[betapictoris]

Might (eventually) need to update the link as it sounds like goo.gl links will actually end up stop working.

[dnschneid]

Yeah, looks like we still have another year (where it'll randomly fail for people curling, unless they add ?si=1). Thanks for sufracing the old git.io thread; that seems like the right way to go.

For now I'll have the two links side-by-side so people don't get surprised by the transition. There's a few other goo.gl links that need to be updated as well.

[dnschneid]

....or not?

Sorry, we're no longer accepting new links to shorten.

Time to find another shortening service...

edit: on second thought, I don't want to have to trust any shortening service not by Google (already trusted because chromebook) or Github (already trusted because that's the link target). So I'll probably use the git.io link (thanks for making that!!) and then replace the other goo.gl links with their original URLs, even though it's inconvenient.