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Re:Tinysheet by mmcwilliams on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:22PM (#28993908)
It appears to be stored in the url. As you update the cells there's an encoded # variable that, when removed, wipes the table.
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Re:Tinysheet by mmahemoff on Monday October 25, 2021 @07:25PM (#28994487)
And if you put the URL into a URL shortener, you can (ab)use it as cloud storage for your spreadsheet.

I once did some checks and found at least one shortener could store a URL string of at least 65KB [1]. That was in 2009. Not sure where those shortener limits are all at today - I suspect the industry dynamics changed when Twitter introduced its built-in shortener.

1. https://softwareas.com/the-url-shortener-as-a-cloud-database...

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Re:Tinysheet by jstrieb on Tuesday October 26, 2021 @01:56AM (#28996886)
The limits are definitely shorter now. I also checked when I created URL Pages [0], which hosts entire web pages in the URL.

However there is a link shortener that is quietly hosted by GitHub called https://git.io that doesn't seem to have a length limit as far as I've discovered. [1]

0: https://github.com/jstrieb/urlpages

1: https://jstrieb.github.io/posts/git-io

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Re:Tinysheet by RotaryTelephone on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:50PM (#28994159)
But... URLs have a char length limit :x
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Re:Tinysheet by recursive on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:52PM (#28994180)
And this has a cell limit. Perfectly aligned.
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