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Offtopic: What's the point of using tinyurl outside of twitter? I would understand if you had your own vanity shortener (it would be obnoxius, but at least it w

by scribu 14y ago

Offtopic: What's the point of using tinyurl outside of twitter? I would understand if you had your own vanity shortener (it would be obnoxius, but at least it would make some kind of sense).

Mz 14y ago
On small screens, sometimes long urls wrap and break? I was first introed to url shorteners to get around breakage, long before I ever heard of twitter.
- lwat 14y ago
  HN shortens display of long URLs automatically and shorteners are bad long term so please don't use them here.
  - Mz 14y ago
    I don't think I ever have. But thank you for the reminder. I knew that about HN but did not recall it.