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Shitty url shortener, emoji and ai powered

30 points by cagataycali 9y ago

abandonliberty 9y ago
Funny, these emoji urls just broke my whatsapp for desktop. Edit: Confirmed on Apple and Windows. I formatted one as http:// http:// and one without. Restarting the application didn't fix it. Deleting the urls on Android, then relaunching the desktop application worked.
robzyb 9y ago
I love it. I was trying to think up an emoji project (especially with URLs) a little while ago, but didn't come up with anything. I wish I'd thought of this.
mjmasn 9y ago
Seems to be broken. With a https url got redirected to http://https%20//Google.com http://https%20//Google.com With a http url it just redirects back to the shortener homepage. (Google Chrome on Mac)
lettergram 9y ago
Interesting, it does seem pretty shitty lol I gave it https://projectpiglet.com https://projectpiglet.com and was sent to https://anduintransact.com/ https://anduintransact.com/ Pretty fun though!
- hyatt03 9y ago
  That's interesting, I got projectpiglet despite giving a github url
  - lettergram 9y ago
    lol sounds like something is broken with hashing.
    - cagataycali 9y ago
      Yep, you got it. Somebody try to redirect loop with shitty url shortener. I impressed but I didn't delete the records. I accept if anyone wants to help. Maybe the shit in the future could be nice.
kijeda 9y ago
Perhaps this is relevant, and was released just this week by ICANN: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-095-en.pdf https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-095-en.pdf "Finding 1: Emoji are disallowed by the IDNA standard; domain names with emoji will not be accepted or processed consistently by applications. Finding 2: Emoji are not required by design, standard, or convention to be visually uniform (one code point displayed the same way in all circumstances) or visually distinguishable (different code points displayed in ways that permit them to be disambiguated regardless of context). As a result, a user will be exposed to problems of confusability and accessibility. Different code points that are rendered the same or one code point that renders differently to different users will lead to inconsistent results depending on the display or rendering technology used. Finding 3: Emoji modifiers and “glue” arrangements allow for a potentially much larger set of composed multi-codepoint symbols with even greater rendering variation and potential for ambiguous interpretation. Finding 4: A fundamental property of the DNS is that it is an exact-match lookup service. For a given query, either there is a single name that matches or there is no match. When two domain names are identical in appearance except for ordinary typographic style variations (which, at present, have no equivalent for emoji), but have different underlying code points, they identify two different DNS domains. Finding 5: It is unrealistic to expect that just because a code point is included in Unicode, it should be used as part of a domain name."
- runnr_az 9y ago
  This is definitely the beginning of an ongoing debate: https://medium.com/@Emoji_Domains/ssac-response-d8d2ad6e800c https://medium.com/@Emoji_Domains/ssac-response-d8d2ad6e800c
  - cagataycali 9y ago
    At least it just works. Nobody knows how. It's fun.
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vacri 9y ago
It is a shitty shortener - www.google.com gets shortened to a link that points at wwww.google.com.
runnr_az 9y ago
Fun! Love a quick, dumb emoji URL project.
cagataycali 9y ago
Url shortener evolved. Has new ui, Less buggy code :) https://github.com/cagataycali/url-shortener https://github.com/cagataycali/url-shortener

30 points by cagataycali 9y ago

Funny, these emoji urls just broke my whatsapp for desktop. Edit: Confirmed on Apple and Windows. I formatted one as http:// http:// and one without. Restarting the application didn't fix it. Deleting the urls on Android, then relaunching the desktop application worked.

robzyb 9y ago

I love it. I was trying to think up an emoji project (especially with URLs) a little while ago, but didn't come up with anything. I wish I'd thought of this.

mjmasn 9y ago

Seems to be broken. With a https url got redirected to http://https%20//Google.com http://https%20//Google.com With a http url it just redirects back to the shortener homepage. (Google Chrome on Mac)

lettergram 9y ago

Interesting, it does seem pretty shitty lol I gave it https://projectpiglet.com https://projectpiglet.com and was sent to https://anduintransact.com/ https://anduintransact.com/ Pretty fun though!

hyatt03 9y ago
That's interesting, I got projectpiglet despite giving a github url
- lettergram 9y ago
  lol sounds like something is broken with hashing.
  - cagataycali 9y ago
    Yep, you got it. Somebody try to redirect loop with shitty url shortener. I impressed but I didn't delete the records. I accept if anyone wants to help. Maybe the shit in the future could be nice.

kijeda 9y ago

Perhaps this is relevant, and was released just this week by ICANN: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-095-en.pdf https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/sac-095-en.pdf "Finding 1: Emoji are disallowed by the IDNA standard; domain names with emoji will not be accepted or processed consistently by applications. Finding 2: Emoji are not required by design, standard, or convention to be visually uniform (one code point displayed the same way in all circumstances) or visually distinguishable (different code points displayed in ways that permit them to be disambiguated regardless of context). As a result, a user will be exposed to problems of confusability and accessibility. Different code points that are rendered the same or one code point that renders differently to different users will lead to inconsistent results depending on the display or rendering technology used. Finding 3: Emoji modifiers and “glue” arrangements allow for a potentially much larger set of composed multi-codepoint symbols with even greater rendering variation and potential for ambiguous interpretation. Finding 4: A fundamental property of the DNS is that it is an exact-match lookup service. For a given query, either there is a single name that matches or there is no match. When two domain names are identical in appearance except for ordinary typographic style variations (which, at present, have no equivalent for emoji), but have different underlying code points, they identify two different DNS domains. Finding 5: It is unrealistic to expect that just because a code point is included in Unicode, it should be used as part of a domain name."

runnr_az 9y ago
This is definitely the beginning of an ongoing debate: https://medium.com/@Emoji_Domains/ssac-response-d8d2ad6e800c https://medium.com/@Emoji_Domains/ssac-response-d8d2ad6e800c
- cagataycali 9y ago
  At least it just works. Nobody knows how. It's fun.

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vacri 9y ago

It is a shitty shortener - www.google.com gets shortened to a link that points at wwww.google.com.

runnr_az 9y ago

Fun! Love a quick, dumb emoji URL project.

cagataycali 9y ago

Url shortener evolved. Has new ui, Less buggy code :) https://github.com/cagataycali/url-shortener https://github.com/cagataycali/url-shortener