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I think pretty much everyone would call that URL shortening though.
by valenterry 4y ago
I think pretty much everyone would call that URL shortening though.
- JohnFen 4y agoI wouldn't, personally. That's just providing a shorter direct URL. A URL shortener is a lookup service, turning a fake URL into the actual one.
- valenterry 4y agoHow is providing a shorter URL not URL shortening? Just because it's not necessarily having to do a lookup? Wikipedia says: > URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page That's what it is.
- JohnFen 4y ago> Just because it's not necessarily having to do a lookup? Yes. You aren't shortening a URL, you are serving a web page that has a short URL. I realize this is pedantic, but the relevance is that we're talking about URL shortening services, which this is not using. I don't mind short URLs much (although I greatly appreciate it if the URL gives me some hint of the content it's pointing at, even if that makes it longer). URL shortening services, however, come with additional problems that lead me to the opinion that they're unacceptable.