An interesting fact about this is that the author is on the Microsoft docs team, which uses a similar system for docs.microsoft.com [1]. So I don't think that GitHub has a problem with this approach.

For an example of Microsoft's system in use, see the "Feedback" section on [2].

[1]: https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs/feedback/issues/396

[2]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/funct...