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Shoo! Snix! Booo! Be.

Now look here, a new short URL service is on it's way up in the world. It looks very promising so far I must tell you. The layout is clean and creative, the servers are fast, the service itself is very simple and straight forward, and the people behind it have even developed a strategical overglocking device to keep overload away from the database. Every time the database is filled with 666,000 URL's, a new main database and directory will automatically be created. All the old URL's will still be intact, and new URL's will be created from the second directory level (example, after 666k entries, instead of shoo.be/1/nr URL's will be saved as shoo.be/2/nr, and you can still access the old ones from shoo.be/1/nr! Just so happens I'm the person behind this great revolutionary service that combines simplicity with the needs of this modern day society we live in. So take it for a test link trimmer, and see what you think. Feedback? Goes below.

UPD: Service down & archived.

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  1. S3C
    Saturday Jan/11/2020

    Hmm, sounds good. What about TinyURL though, that's been around since 2002.

  2. Cyber
    Monday Jan/13/2020

    Yupp, it wasn't bad, I think I just realized before it really got too much traction that I didn't really need another side project on my hands, or that I wasn't a fan of short URLs after all since they rely on a third-party service to work, even if the site they lead to still does. Plus extra load time and stuff.

    It's a nice way to track links or make money off of links if you make a business out of it, but really the only justifiable time to use them is if the service you're linking to isn't well-built enough that they keep their URLs short by default, or if you have some character limitation where you need that link.

    TinyURL's pretty impressive though. Even Google's got rid of theirs. These services be dropping like flies...

  3. S3C
    Thursday Jan/16/2020

    Can't argue with that really, but it seems most sites don't implement URL shortening. So these services come in handy when you want to link to something on a flier or poster, and need to save space. QR codes are becoming real popular in place though, and I'm not a fan of those.

  4. Cyber
    Thursday Jan/16/2020

    Ah yeah that's a useful use area too, especially if you want to track how many people those particular posters reach. Different short URLs from different marketing sources... clever.

    I'm not a big fan of QR codes either, though they seem to be getting added more and more into other systems. Like the mobile payment app that's becoming incredibly popular over here, Swish, where invoices and similar can have automatically generated QR codes that the app scans and retrieves payment details for automatically. It does simplify... just don't like that there's a new standard people need to rely on too. And digital at that. A lot of social services around here are becoming reliant on phones. Public bathrooms: Swish.

  5. Cyber
    Thursday Jan/16/2020

    And you have to have a relatively new phone to use it.

    Feels a bit similar to the recent propaganda wave in trying to switch out all FM broadcasts to DAB, and with it any device that ever relied on FM, which is just a crazy amount of devices. Home, hobby, car, phone, everything.

    Real happy that project seems to have lost traction at least.



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