Re:Tell HN: How to ban url shorteners from linking to your site
by ErrantX on Monday July 20, 2009 @04:29AM
(#714147)
As a user if you did that to me I would just close the link and lose interest in your site....
Yes, agreed, the DiggBar style thing IS annoying and we should stop that. But short links are important.
Several forums I frequent insist you use shortners for URL's longer than 25 characters (you get a warning if you dont!) to keep things neat. Twitter - your isntantly killing traffic from that crowd.
Now, showing a box on the page with some of that info would be useful / understandable.
Yes, agreed, the DiggBar style thing IS annoying and we should stop that. But short links are important.
Several forums I frequent insist you use shortners for URL's longer than 25 characters (you get a warning if you dont!) to keep things neat. Twitter - your isntantly killing traffic from that crowd.
Now, showing a box on the page with some of that info would be useful / understandable.