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So he takes an URL shorter than the minimum bit.ly length, and uses that as evidence that URL shorteners suck? That's like saying cars and airplanes suck becaus
by FooBarWidget 17y ago
So he takes an URL shorter than the minimum bit.ly length, and uses that as evidence that URL shorteners suck? That's like saying cars and airplanes suck because they won't save you any time if you want go from your bedroom to your toilet.
- jmm 17y agoExactly. This is a non issue (non article). Who even cares? I bet a survey of Tweetdeck or Bitly would reveal that 99.something% are actually shortened and not just modified. And you have the option not to shorten URLs in Tweetdeck anyway...
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- jsean 17y agoYour point of view is surely valid. Though what I get from posted article is the fact that url shorteners don't always shorten urls. Thus proving that the philosophy behind the service is either not "to shorten urls" or simply bugged. I can imagine an url shortener service, which actally at heart wants to shorten urls, already from first line of implementation has something like if(entered_url.length <= generated_url.length) return entered_url