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Yes, but when a shortener dies, neither the linker nor the linkee can fix the problem, making the problem worse.
by jfager 17y ago
Yes, but when a shortener dies, neither the linker nor the linkee can fix the problem, making the problem worse.
- ubernostrum 17y agoWhen the linkee dies, the linker can't fix that either (short of linking to, say, archive.org -- which works regardless).
- jfager 17y agoThe linker can inspect a direct link to see where it was pointing, in order to find it on archive.org or to contact the linkee and notify them the link went down. If a shortener goes down, the linker only has the obfuscated url, and has to rely only on their memory to redirect the link.