People like me are why you shouldn't run a hosting company

Re:People like me are why you shouldn't run a hosting company by crazygringo on Saturday December 23, 2023 @10:08AM (#38744723)

But that's far too large to easily share in things like plaintext emails or text messages.

If you're unable to compress it further, why don't you implement a TinyURL-type scheme? Save the options on your backend and give them a pointer to the settings. And it can expire after 30d or 1y or never.

Then it actually becomes the size of something shareable.

URLs are resource locators. You're not locating a resource, you're passing a gigantic configuration payload.

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Re:People like me are why you shouldn't run a hosting company by no_wizard on Saturday December 23, 2023 @02:29PM (#38747283)

This is true, but it is the most efficient way that doesn’t induce complexity like having to serialize every option chosen to the backend immediately. Knowing we can re-create everything in first request is much more simple than other methods and doesn’t require the end user to get a special link generated for sharing they can just share straight for the URL bar.

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