Glitch dot com shutting down

[OmarShehata]

Glitch has announced they're shutting down: https://blog.glitch.com/post/changes-are-coming-to-glitch/

I've setup a redirect from the old URL (https://substack-proxy.glitch.me/) to a new location: https://api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy/

The redirect will keep working as long as Glitch's redirect is working (up to end of 2026). After this, all substack-proxy.glitch.me URLs in the wild will NO longer work.

What happens to all the old URLs in the wild?

A lot of people use substack-proxy, primarily on twitter. Once Glitch cuts the redirect, those links will stop working.

I designed the app with this failure mode in mind. Even if the server is dead, the original article can be recovered because the proxy URL itself includes the url to the original, with small modifications.

For example, for a URL like this:

https://substack-proxy.glitch.me/articles/open-substack-com-pub-umkalra-p-more-things-should-be-freaky-and-manualredirect.html

To get the original article, in the worst case scenario you google search: substack umkalra-p-more-things-should-be-freaky. This gives us umkalra's substack, and we can find the essay there.

Alternatively, you can just append it to the new URL, which should be replacing substack-proxy.glitch.me/ with api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy/. So it would be:

https://api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy/articles/open-substack-com-pub-umkalra-p-more-things-should-be-freaky-and-manualredirect.html

[OmarShehata]

Alternatively, you can just append it to the new URL

this will only work as long as the article was added to the original substack-proxy, and successfully migrated over to the new server. I migrated all articles as of June 26. So if you added an article to the old substack-proxy URL after June 26, and used that link, it will fail to successfully migrate.

(I wanted to try to minimize this gap, but had some final issues in the new server before I could enable the redirect, my bad)