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Out of curiosity, why do some of you use... - RAMd®d - 03-06-2011
...bit.ly and tiny.url links?
I liked the move Fearless Leader made when the Forum automatically showed the name of the site for a posted link.
I've posted some Amazon links that were very, very long, but the Forum handled them quite well.
So what's the deal?
Re: Out of curiosity, why do some of you use... - ztirffritz - 03-06-2011
It is quite a bit easier to copy and paste a tiny.url link. You just drag the URL to a shortcut on your browser and it generates the link and automagically copies it. Some email programs choke on long URLs or URLs that wrap around multiple lines. Also, if you use twitter, it is sometimes hard to fit a URL into 140 characters.
Re: Out of curiosity, why do some of you use... - kap - 03-06-2011
16 Gig for $20 from Fry's. Not bad.
Re: Out of curiosity, why do some of you use... - Uncle Wig - 03-06-2011
ztirffritz wrote:
It is quite a bit easier to copy and paste a tiny.url link. You just drag the URL to a shortcut on your browser and it generates the link and automagically copies it. Some email programs choke on long URLs or URLs that wrap around multiple lines. Also, if you use twitter, it is sometimes hard to fit a URL into 140 characters.
Yeah, but none of that applies to this forum.
Re: Out of curiosity, why do some of you use... - DaviDC. - 03-06-2011
Too many long URLs just aren't pretty.
Looks ain't everything but they're mighty damn important!
Seriously, this is something I've never even noticed before.
Re: Out of curiosity, why do some of you use... - silvarios - 03-06-2011
I am not fan of link shorteners. Obfuscating the destination address is not a good practice.
Re: Out of curiosity, why do some of you use... - john-o - 03-06-2011
Uncle Wig wrote:
[quote=ztirffritz]
It is quite a bit easier to copy and paste a tiny.url link. You just drag the URL to a shortcut on your browser and it generates the link and automagically copies it. Some email programs choke on long URLs or URLs that wrap around multiple lines. Also, if you use twitter, it is sometimes hard to fit a URL into 140 characters.
Yeah, but none of that applies to this forum.
Force of habit then? As ztirffritz said, it sometimes just becomes part of your workflow for c/p-ing links, because long links cause problems elsewhere...
Re: Out of curiosity, why do some of you use... - SDGuy - 03-06-2011
silvarios wrote::agree:
I am not fan of link shorteners. Obfuscating the destination address is not a good practice.
Re: Out of curiosity, why do some of you use... - cbelt3 - 03-06-2011
Actually many corporate web proxy servers (mine included) forbid the use of web shorteners for the very reason that they are phishing enablers. Hence I can't use them at work.
Re: Out of curiosity, why do some of you use... - RAMd®d - 03-06-2011
Yeah, but none of that applies to this forum.
Exactly.
I am not fan of link shorteners. Obfuscating the destination address is not a good practice.
Agreed.
Too many long URLs just aren't pretty.
?
The longest URLs I've ever seen here are those that people had substituted text for. Extremely long URLs from amazon have shown up as [amazon.com] links.
This thread link is http:/ /forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1110166,1110166#msg-1110166 but this forum renders it as http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1110166,1110166#msg-1110166 .
http:/ /www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-S95-Stabilized-3-0-Inch/dp/B003ZSHNGS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1299448465&sr=8-1-catcorr resolves to http://www.amazon.com/Canon-PowerShot-S95-Stabilized-3-0-Inch/dp/B003ZSHNGS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1299448465&sr=8-1-catcorr .
I understand the advantages outside of this forum.