On Wed, 15 May 2013 14:18:30 -0700 Walter Bright <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote:
> On 5/15/2013 1:08 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: > > The problem with short URLs is that they're completely opaque: you > > have no idea where they go. Ex: I didn't know if it was for the > > reddit, youtube, or the DConf page. Besides, hyperlinking and > > copy/paste tend to obviate any benefit of shortened URLs. "goo.gl" > > and such are extremely useful if you're giving someone a URL over > > the phone, but aside from that, I've never seen much of a point. > > Twitter used to pretty much require use of shortened URLs, but they > fixed that problem, and now I use full length ones on it. > That's interesting (and I hadn't even thought of that issue). Did they make that change by increaseing the max message length, or do the detect URLs and not count them towards the total msg length, or something else?
