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Show HN: URL shortening to minimize NSFW accidents
- stevekemp 12y agoIt probably needs to be updated to avoid this recursion: http://nt.gd/bwsdk http://nt.gd/bwsdk
- transitorykris 12y agoNot pretty, good catch
- ChrisGranger 12y agoSpotted a little typo: >When you share a short URL the [recipient] will be saved some potential embarassment if they're not in a location suitable for viewing NSFW content.
- geographomics 12y agoOne can get around the automatic NSFW detection by chaining it to another URL shortener, for example: http://nt.gd/lx2hr0 http://nt.gd/lx2hr0. Might be useful to either detect this, or warn that the next link also hosts a redirect.
- jaredsohn 12y agoOne of my first thoughts when I saw this post was that it would be a site where you give it an existing URL-shortened link and it could tell you if it safe to go to it or not. I'm thinking such a site may be more useful in that it lets the consumer decide to check for NSFW instead of the producer. Also, this could be pretty useful if associated with a browser extension that changes existing links to use the service.
- transitorykris 12y agoThis sounds useful. I'm going to be following 302s shortly to expose possible security and nsfw URLs along the way. It will be easy enough to show the unpacking after an URL is submitted.