[hackeratrandom]

"We understand the transition away from using goo.gl short links may cause some inconvenience." ... Hum, ya ... Non tech people might have made lots of links in legacy internal doc's, email conversations and other reference maternal ... Maybe even a thing called "Paper" ;-)

[kabanka]

Maybe they should publish the mapping of shortened url -> target page, for at least not losing all access to the legacy links

[lostmsu]

That would expose private links

[kabanka]

Sure, but it seems solve-able (even decoding urls one by one with captcha is better than nothing)

[elcomet]

They could publish it with public key encryption, so you can verify existing links without seeing all the links