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Short domain, but stop with the background images. This design style is one of the reasons the internet still doesn't seem faster after decades of improvement.
by vortico 11y ago
Short domain, but stop with the background images. This design style is one of the reasons the internet still doesn't seem faster after decades of improvement.
I would much prefer a ~4KB HTML page with no dependencies containing just
<form ...><input name="url"/><button>Shorten</button></form>
The domain name is simple. Why not make the page the same way to demonstrate this for your service?
- idealboy 11y agoThis. No one is going here for pretty pictures.
- matteotom 11y agoThat's why I just made my own: http://mtb.wtf http://mtb.wtf It's really just a personal experiment to see if I could write a useful webapp entirely in lua in my nginx config: https://github.com/matthewbentley/urlshort https://github.com/matthewbentley/urlshort (which is actually a terrible idea in real life). It also automatically saves pages on archive.org, and you can access the info on a short code at mtb.wtf/i/<code> (ie, http://mtb.wtf/i/e093b http://mtb.wtf/i/e093b ). It also re-saves a fresh copy each time a url is re-submitted. You can also request a specific short code here: mtb.wtf/addexact
- hakanito 11y agoBeen using Google's shortener for a while, does the job. http://goo.gl http://goo.gl
- rkeene2 11y agoThere's always http://oc9.org/yourShortURLHere http://oc9.org/yourShortURLHere but I always get complaints that it's not obvious what it does or how to use it