Hi Chris, On 15/03/16 23:48, Chris Angelico wrote:
I agree, it's a risk. Any indirection adds that. So the benefit has to be weighed against this inherent cost.
True, so it's not URL shorteners that I disagree with on principle, it's the _inappropriate_ use of URL shorteners ;) If one uses them on fora such as this which could be expected to exist for some considerable time then it's an issue. Elsewhere, then yes, the linking service may not last as long as the shortening service ...
I often like to make a small change when I reimplement, though - something that I thought was ill-designed in the original,
OK, so maybe the idea for Vinicius (if he's still reading) to pursue is that it should be something that can be used as the basis for a URL shortening "service" that is distributed and can NOT go away (think DNS). That is what some people don't like about the URL shorteners, so maybe that's an itch that he might want to scratch.
I've no idea if other such projects already exist, it just occurred to me when responding.
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