My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. Useful?

Re:My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. U... by vvpan on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @11:10AM (#1954514)

Thanks for the feedback. Much-much appreciated.

I was thinking of adding an "author" field, and now that you and some other people mention it, I think I will follow through with it.

Honestly, you seem to have put much more thought into URL shortening than I did. I am using just letters for the character set. Shortening the URL sounds like a good idea. And removing the O's and l's is also something that I think I would do. Great suggestions, thanks!

Markdown is actually in the code, but commented out for the "release" =) So it should be coming soon. Thanks again.

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Re:My first tiny "weekend project": readable text hosting. U... by rwolf on Tuesday November 30, 2010 @04:50PM (#1955718)

I'd recommend against shortening the key length, given that keeping the keys hard to guess is how you're keeping them private.

See https://gist.github.com/722474 for a proof of concept scraper. If the key length dropped to 4 chars (and you kept l, o, L, and O in the set), there would only be 7,311,616 urls to try to find all the notes.

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