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One difference is that when you visit/bookmark some normal webpage, you save on your computer only its title and address. With this, you are saving the page con
by posix_me_less 7y ago
One difference is that when you visit/bookmark some normal webpage, you save on your computer only its title and address. With this, you are saving the page content as well, just by visiting the page.
- lisper 7y agoWith the data in a file you are also saving the page content (in a file). I don't see what difference it makes whether you're saving that content in a file or in a bookmark. (At the risk of stating the obvious, bookmarks are stored in a file.)
- Misdicorl 7y agoIts different because sharing a link is much easier than sharing a file
- lisper 7y agoNot if the link and the file are the same size.
- cantcomplain 7y agoTake discord for example: you can only post a file of certain size, but you can post unlimited text
- dansman805 7y agoDiscord messages aren't actually unlimited; they are limited to 2,000 characters, unless this restriction was recently removed. I have personally encountered this, mainly when using code blocks.
- Misdicorl 7y agoEven then. Try to send me a `Hello World` webpage both ways and guess which one will actually get clicked on and seen
- drusepth 7y agoCan you tinyurl a file?
- lisper 7y agoCan you tinyurl a url with more than a few thousand characters? Even if this were possible (which, even if tinyurl supported it, would break most browsers) you would be effectively hosting your content on tinyurl.com. Again, this is no different from hosting the file on any of a zillion public data hosting services.