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When I want to share an image over chat with a friend, the long, odd looking reddit image urls disrupt the natural flow. It's like virtually slapping someone o
by legohead 9y ago
When I want to share an image over chat with a friend, the long, odd looking reddit image urls disrupt the natural flow. It's like virtually slapping someone on the face. A nice, short and sweet URL is much nicer in text conversations.
Also, being a developer and security conscious, I inspect URLs before I click on them. The longer they are, the more frustrated I get examining them.
- satsuma 9y agoThe flow comment is interesting, especially because it's one I resonate with. Every time I want to hotlink an image from Facebook I cringe at the multi-line horror in the clipboard.
- raldi 9y agoReddit has short URLs; they're in the sidebar of every submission, e.g., http://redd.it/6idi12 http://redd.it/6idi12
- ljk 9y ago> being a developer and security conscious, I inspect URLs before I click on them. The longer they are, the more frustrated I get examining them. it doens't really matter if a url is long or short, right? as long as the domain looks good then there's no reason to check every character in the url? not sure why it's more secure to have a shorter url if the domain is safe *not a security expert