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Re:Show HN: Singlelink – an open-source micro-site platform by hanniabu on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @01:54AM (#26408588)
No problem, glad to help. One last thing is that you can break links by linking to the analytics tracking link [1]. This isn't really an issue for users since this would only ever happen intentionally, but figured I'd mention it because idk how it'll affect your backend.

https://app.singlelink.co/u/hanniabu

At further inspection it looks like with each click of the recursive link it generated 20 tracked links.

It also looks like the analytics doesn't treat each link independently. If I change a link it just relabels it in the analytics rather than creating a new tracking item. Sorry to be raining on your parade and tearing this apart so hard lol.

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Re:Show HN: Singlelink – an open-source micro-site platform by jimbisenius on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:05AM (#26408659)
Woah, great catch! We'll put in a quickfix in the AM, easy enough.

In regards to analytics, we're currently treating links like "blocks" in preparation for our new link types feature (then a link could be an image, video, form, checkout, plugin, etc.), so if you were to want a new tracking item created it would be recommended to create a new item and delete the old one rather than edit it. In the future, we'll have easy link visibility and duplication settings to make this an easy process. If you have any thoughts on how you'd expect/prefer this to be, let me know!

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