Currently bitly has been marked by Google Safe Browsing as potential malware. Due to its nature as a link shortener, there is no guarantee this will not happen again.
There have been issues in the past with bit.ly being down as well. It has become a single point of failure for the site, and its only advantage of analytics is currently not widely known and can be self hosted to some extent.
I have pushed a temporary workaround with #677 while we unshorten links.
Currently bitly has been marked by Google Safe Browsing as potential malware. Due to its nature as a link shortener, there is no guarantee this will not happen again. There have been issues in the past with bit.ly being down as well. It has become a single point of failure for the site, and its only advantage of analytics is currently not widely known and can be self hosted to some extent. I have pushed a temporary workaround with #677 while we unshorten links.