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The implementation is neat. But I honestly don't get the point of this site. The shortened URL is of the form http://t.bdaily.club/34fe6 http://t.bdaily.club/34
by vishnu_ks 8y ago
The implementation is neat. But I honestly don't get the point of this site. The shortened URL is of the form http://t.bdaily.club/34fe6 http://t.bdaily.club/34fe6.
When you open http://t.bdaily.club/34fe6 http://t.bdaily.club/34fe6 the server redirects you to a file in IPFS which has a javascript script tag to redirect further to the actual URL.
My question?
* What's the point of this service when you can directly redirect to the actual URL instead of redirecting to the IPFS file?
* Users can also alternatively share the IPFS file directly (eg https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmfFs8v6hXK258ov9bXGuqzUVsJGRPChviuuUXUY6axTQz https://cloudflare-ipfs.com/ipfs/QmfFs8v6hXK258ov9bXGuqzUVsJ...). But the problem is IPFS URL/hash is bigger than the urls itself in most cases. I think the point of URL shortner is to have a small URL. This is more like a URL enlarger service.
* Most importantly someone has to seed the IPFS files so that the links keep working. What's the incentive for the website owners to seed the files for free? There is no guarentee that the URLs will work if someone open it after a month or year.