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Support GitHub redirect domains in `shorten-links`

See original GitHub issue

Description

Popular bots like Dependabot and Renovate uses redirect domains for references instead of linking directly, so they won’t flood the original discussion.

We can swap those domains with github.com, which is technically also shorten-links.

Known redirect domains:

togithub.com* (Renovate)
github-redirect.dependabot.com (Dependabot)

* This domain has a pretty obvious (and easy to type) name! I highly encourage contributors use it for demo links. Also, if this issue is resolved, we can get the best of two worlds: direct links without disturbance.

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Example URL

https://togithub.com/renovatebot/renovate/pull/12293

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 2 years ago
Reactions:2
Comments:5 (5 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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cheap-glitchcommented, Nov 22, 2021

Which is to say I would like the links to behave just like they points to github.com (modifying href), without redirects.

Shouldn’t it be a new feature then? Since the goal is not to shorten the anchor text, but to avoid a redirection, this seems outside the scope of shorten-links imo.

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fregantecommented, Nov 23, 2021

Which is to say I would like the links to behave just like they points to github.com (modifying href), without redirects.

Interesting. I’d implement this as a avoid-redirects feature that is just a delegate('a', 'mousedown') which changes the links before navigation happens.