The problems with url shorteners

Re:The problems with url shorteners by axod on Friday April 03, 2009 @06:23PM (#545765)

This is why I implemented url following on the server in Mibbit...

Having someone throw you a shortened url on IRC is a pain, so now the Mibbit server follows it, and sends over the destination URL, which shows when you hover over the shortened URL.

Means a few less surprises ;)

I've seen a couple of other sites do something similar, although it's usually an (expand) thing you have to click.

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Re:The problems with url shorteners by sgrove on Friday April 03, 2009 @07:47PM (#545850)

Well done. A creative solution, well-implemented.

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Re:The problems with url shorteners by TweedHeads on Saturday April 04, 2009 @03:30PM (#546582)

Perfect, that's what everybody should do, just replace the unreadable cryptic shortener with "link" and follow the url so hovering will show it on the status bar.

I hate not knowing where a link will take me.

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