Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-23 Thread Danny Spitzberg
WordPress has a nifty url shorter for pages or assets on the same site. It made a really big difference for lots of people in terms of accessibility, for example, in printing promotional postcards with xyz.site/jan20event/ On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:58 AM J.B. Nicholson

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-23 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> Answer: No. URL shorteners obufuscate the destination of > a link and if the shortening service ever shuts down, all > the shortened URL become dead links to who knows what. Nice one! I agree. :D I do also agree with the idea that the URL shortener should be the same website of the provider of

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-22 Thread J.B. Nicholson
David Paul wrote: Better question: Should you use a URL shortener at all? Answer: No. URL shorteners obufuscate the destination of a link and if the shortening service ever shuts down, all the shortened URL become dead links to who knows what. I agree; the only acceptable exception I can

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-22 Thread David Paul
On 3/20/18, Don Saklad wrote: > What's the best URL shortener? Better question: Should you use a URL shortener at all? Answer: No. URL shorteners obufuscate the destination of a link and if the shortening service ever shuts down, all the shortened URL become dead links to who

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-21 Thread C.W. Epema
If you are interested in a real free and open-source shortlink project, you are very welcome to clone my repository from Github: g...@github.com:kzpm/shortlink.git The program (SaaS) has been working quite well on my Nginx webserver for over three years now. The service is extremely

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-21 Thread Don Saklad
Question How do you find the actual direct link?... specific to the Double page spread photo/caption Click on... double page format 4th icon from the top left at http://tx0.org/pg https://books.google.com/books?id=z00EMBAJ=new+breed+1962=i+hate+a+lazy+approach

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-21 Thread libreplanet
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 11:12:56AM -0500, Tony Chidester wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2018 12:00:01 -0400, > libreplanet-discuss-requ...@libreplanet.org wrote: > http://tx0.org > > Pros to using tx0.org from their privacy page: > > We do not monetize our access logs > We do not sell advertising or

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-20 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
> internet going on thirty years. Plus you don't have to buy a domain Indeed yu are right, some domains or subdomains are gratis. For this trivial thing, a dynamic subdomain from freedns.afraid.org or any other, and a simple webserver which answers simply with HTTP Redirect code and "Location"

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-20 Thread Tony Chidester
-discuss@libreplanet.org > Subject: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener? > Message-ID: <5i1sgfw9zz@fencepost.gnu.org> > Content-Type: text/plain > > What's the best URL shortener? http://tx0.org Pros to using tx0.org from their privacy page: We d

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-20 Thread David Hedlund
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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-20 Thread Thomas Harding
Le 20 mars 2018 12:39:44 GMT+01:00, "Steven D. Brewer" a écrit : >On 3/20/18 2:12 AM, Don Saklad wrote: >> What's the best URL shortener? > >Buy a short domain name and write short URLs An RRDB with an eight bytes key + a small front-end to generate an HTTP redirect

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-20 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 09:44:30AM -0300, Adonay Felipe Nogueira wrote: > I go for the same recommendation that some gave: buy a short domain and > run a simple webserver that is responsible for shortening URLs. > > One can, of course, rely on some third-party to do this, but I found out > that

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-20 Thread Adonay Felipe Nogueira
I go for the same recommendation that some gave: buy a short domain and run a simple webserver that is responsible for shortening URLs. One can, of course, rely on some third-party to do this, but I found out that most common URL shorteners *do more nasty stuff* --- such as requiring you to

Re: [libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-20 Thread Steven D. Brewer
On 3/20/18 2:12 AM, Don Saklad wrote: > What's the best URL shortener? Buy a short domain name and write short URLs? ^_^ -- Steven D. BREWER http://www.bio.umass.edu/biology/about/directories/faculty/steven-d-brewer Senior Lecturer II; Director, Biology Computer Resource

[libreplanet-discuss] What's the best URL shortener?

2018-03-20 Thread Don Saklad
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