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A comment on Ask HN: Review my attempt to create a non-misleading url shortener..

Re:Ask HN: Review my attempt to create a non-misleading url ... by petervandijck on Friday July 02, 2010 @10:17PM (#1483036)
Cool but it makes the url longer again, which kind of defeats the purpose, no?

If you want to improve url shorteners (which are bad for the web imo), you should build a simple open software script people can install on their own domain so that they can create short links to their own pages on their own domain. Much more future-proof (ie. if it goes down, only links to its own domain go down).

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Re:Ask HN: Review my attempt to create a non-misleading url ... by fizz972 on Friday July 02, 2010 @10:25PM (#1483049)
This is also based on a great open source script (yourls.org) which also has a wordpress plugin but most content websites do not seem to care about this and keep using services similar to ShareThis which create bit.ly links. I wish services like ShareThis would let site owners point an A record to their servers and host a URL shortening service for their domains.

URLs are longer than usual shortened URLs but are still much shorter than most sites' inner links.

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