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Re: Show HN: Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links

#41

What about a trade-off between compound-ness and duration? If you want a 10-minute link, you really probably want something that's dead-simple to say like "zigg.be/fit". If its a 30-day lease, you might be willing to go for "zigg.be/greencatjumps" This allows shorter URLs to stay in a faster reuse pool.

Oooh, I like this idea a lot! Mind if I use it? I'll have a go at next time I get time to work on it.

Go for it!

Re: Show HN: Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links

#43
post #32

Expiration on a url shortener means linkrot, which is the #1 problem with such services, so seeing this as a feature is a bit strange to say the least.

Zigg.be links (at least they way they are now) are not meant to be published. How do you propose I implement this with permanent links?

Re: Show HN: Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links

#44
post #33

Now you just have to spell zigg.be to the person over the phone

"z" are also pronounced "zed" outside USA. Actually that's how I learned to pronounce it first.

I thing everyone still says Zig with an American Z

Re: Show HN: Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links

#47
post #32

Expiration on a url shortener means linkrot, which is the #1 problem with such services, so seeing this as a feature is a bit strange to say the least.

Zigg.be links (at least they way they are now) are not meant to be published. How do you propose I implement this with permanent links?

They are links, meant to be shared, maybe published, it depends on your users behavior, not what you want them to do.

Even if they were only supposed to be private, what if my dad wants to find that Steve Jobs Bio again 1 month from now.

Re: Show HN: Zigg.be – A link shortener that creates short speakable links

#48
post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Indeed, although namespacing permanent links would be doable, it wouldn't make much sense and other URL shorteners would do the job.

Permanent links for paying accounts perhaps?

That's one of the ideas :)
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