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Excuse me but, how do you expect redditors to use your shortener ? Reddit is about sharing links and, for some people, your service may seem to get in the way
by vorador 17y ago
Excuse me but, how do you expect redditors to use your shortener ?
Reddit is about sharing links and, for some people, your service may seem to get in the way between them and content.
- yashodhan 17y agoIn the same way they would use bit.ly or tinyurl.
- ScottWhigham 17y agoWhich, if I'm not mistaken, is really frowned upon since bad things could be hiding behind those urls.
- yashodhan 17y agoWell, using URL shorteners to submit links to news aggregators is dumb, I agree. But I use URL shorteners to send friends/family to links and that's really the point of rddd.it. I'm not saying use rddd.it ON reddit. I'm a little confused where that assumption was made.
- detst 17y agoWhy would you do this? I only tolerate it on twitter because of the character limitations. Outside of such a restriction, URL shorteners just get in the way and I find their use quite obnoxious.
- yashodhan 17y agoI find them very useful when I want to send a quick email to somebody with a link. It looks neater (OCD) when you say: "Look what I found on the internet - rddd.it/xxxx" Also, I link so many people to interesting reddit threads and I'd rather use a shortened link that allows me to email/tweet and yes, even text to somebody.