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classic if you go for a certain kind of minimalist aesthetic, dud if you're at all conscientious about what you might be clicking on.

classic if you're a pr0n spammer i guess

― dancing chicken (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:01 (twenty years ago)

haha i was just gonna say "perfect for goatse"

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:12 (twenty years ago)

shortlinks are useful in my work, pasting long website urls into customer service emails can be a wonky enterprise

― elmo, patron saint of nausea (allocryptic), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:15 (twenty years ago)

Dud, because it adds another point of failure

― A BOLD QUAHOG (ex machina), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:16 (twenty years ago)

but it adds an extra point of SUCCESS

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:21 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

The TinyURL backlash: C/D?

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:03 (seventeen years ago)

have always preferred hugeurl, which always makes me laugh very hard.

http://hugeurl.com/

― Just one thing I was thinking about as I was getting on the copter (J0hn D.), Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:05 (seventeen years ago)

hugeurl rules, yes. People are bitching about how tinyurl can destroy content, obscures the origin, etc. I'm kinda sympathetic, I guess. Lately, when I see a TinyURL, I think to myself, just what flavor of bull shit are you hiding behind that oh-so-short URL?

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:08 (seventeen years ago)

I guess the rise of Twitter has made this a more salient argument; that's why I'm so impressed that the TweetDeck client will tell you exactly what a shortened URL is pointing to. It's saved me a tonne of time not following links from increasingly irritating celebrities, who I'm really wondering why I follow.

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:11 (seventeen years ago)

Folks are suggesting the addition of various properties to <link>, so that a self-shortened URL may be provided with a "canonicalization" to a longer URL. Which just makes you think: Why the hell do you need the longer URL in the first place? Or: Twitter & its 140-some chars sucks.

Somewhere in this discussion I'm sure the REST folks have an axe to grind.

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:16 (seventeen years ago)

Amazing!

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― not_goodwin, Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:36 (seventeen years ago)

but it don't work :(

― not_goodwin, Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:36 (seventeen years ago)

Sometimes it's just to big to fit in.

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:37 (seventeen years ago)

Then what? Try manually?

― StanM, Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:42 (seventeen years ago)

Sometimes simple digital entry is the only thing that works.

― Monkey Pocket Boob (libcrypt), Sunday, 12 April 2009 22:44 (seventeen years ago)

Which just makes you think: Why the hell do you need the longer URL in the first place?

Er, yes, exactly!

Having -- for some reason -- found myself reading a lot of the anti-shortening arguments this morning (procrastination), I actually give less of a fuck. Hey ho.

― a tiny, faltering megaphone (grimly fiendish), Monday, 13 April 2009 09:29 (seventeen years ago)

Grimly, you're awake! Oh man, I'm so happy you're awake.

― Gross Chapel British Grenadiers (Bimble), Monday, 13 April 2009 09:53 (seventeen years ago)

Grimly, please check your email.

― Gross Chapel British Grenadiers (Bimble), Monday, 13 April 2009 10:01 (seventeen years ago)

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