Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month

Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by ceejayoz on Friday July 25, 2025 @01:02PM (#44685446)

Let me know when you figure out how to make a printed scientific journal clickable.

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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by diatone on Friday July 25, 2025 @01:13PM (#44685568)

Take a photo on your phone, OS recognises the link in the image, makes it clickable, done. Or, use a QR code instead

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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by ceejayoz on Friday July 25, 2025 @01:44PM (#44685976)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by jeeyoungk on Friday July 25, 2025 @02:30PM (#44686574)

This is the answer; turns out that non-transformed links are the most generic data format, without any "compression" - QR codes or a third-party-intermediary - needed.

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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by epolanski on Friday July 25, 2025 @06:19PM (#44689186)

Scientific journals should not rely on ephemeral data on the internet. It doesn't even matter how long the url is.

Just buy any scientific book and try to navigate to it's own errata they link in the book. It's always dead.

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Re:Google's shortened goo.gl links will stop working next month by ceejayoz on Sunday July 27, 2025 @12:26PM (#44702431)

Sure, just turn the three page article into a 500 page one with all the data and code.

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