Trying it now results in:
ERROR: can't find the current version. Please try again later.
$ rg 'UPDATE_URL|VERSION_URL'
youtube_dl/update.py
35: UPDATE_URL = 'https://yt-dl.org/update/'
36: VERSION_URL = UPDATE_URL + 'LATEST_VERSION'
37: JSON_URL = UPDATE_URL + 'versions.json'
46: newversion = opener.open(VERSION_URL).read().decode('utf-8').strip()
$ curl -IL https://yt-dl.org/update/LATEST_VERSION
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:15:04 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
Location: https://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/update/LATEST_VERSION
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
HTTP/2 404
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
server: GitHub.com
etag: "5f777b31-239b"
content-security-policy: default-src 'none'; style-src 'unsafe-inline'; img-src data:; connect-src 'self'
x-github-request-id: 170E:2B71:1A0B5DC:1B8177E:5F933973
accept-ranges: bytes
date: Fri, 23 Oct 2020 20:15:04 GMT
via: 1.1 varnish
age: 85
x-served-by: cache-hnd18722-HND
x-cache: HIT
x-cache-hits: 1
x-timer: S1603484104.479172,VS0,VE0
vary: Accept-Encoding
x-fastly-request-id: a7128dab84232184052e51f07eb6263f5c88ab7e
content-length: 9115Well at least if they can hold onto their domain, and then host development somewhere, they'll maintain the ability to redirect updates to a new location without people having to manually reinstall.
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