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Maybe because the problem is arising people will move to short urls on their own sites so that they don't even need to be shortened for twitter and such, becaus
by buugs 18y ago
Maybe because the problem is arising people will move to short urls on their own sites so that they don't even need to be shortened for twitter and such, because honestly the problem isn't that the urls are redirecting its that the urls need to be redirected because of an unnecessary long url for clarity.
In all honesty I don't know very many people that look at the full url before they click on it; the domain name does most of the work and the description accompanying the url does the rest.
- ZenzerNet 18y agoI don't click a link until I've read the comments on HN. :)
- Tichy 18y agoSomebody should write a wordpress plugin that offers a shortened URL along with the Google-URL (Google URLs meaning myblog.com/my-blog-article-about-whatever, shortened to myblog.com/whatever).
- varjag 18y ago" Maybe because the problem is arising people will move to short urls on their own sites so that they don't even need to be shortened for twitter and such, because honestly the problem isn't that the urls are redirecting its that the urls need to be redirected because of an unnecessary long url for clarity." And this is the part I never quite understood. Does anyone really type in the URLs? Folks click, or at best copy and paste. Did anyone here for once typed in that http://tinyurl.com/yadayada http://tinyurl.com/yadayada stuff? What exact problem URL shortener addresses, aside from (maybe) miniscule adjustment of aesthetics?