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...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?
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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.
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16 Gig for $20 from Fry's. Not bad.
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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.
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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.
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I am not fan of link shorteners. Obfuscating the destination address is not a good practice.
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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...
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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.
