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"While most features of goo.gl will eventually sunset, all existing links will continue to redirect to the intended destination." https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-goog...
I hope this doesn't change too. Felt I had to use it to link a humongous wikidata SPARQL query in a (software) research paper recently.
I'm not sure how you guys feel about this, but personally, I've been avoiding Google services for the last couple of years because I just assume they'll eventually get shut down.
Same here. Only thing I'm still strongly dependent on is gmail. I don't really think that's going away anytime soon, but out of principle I'd like to move away from it. Takes a lot of energy unfortunately and you probably need to keep a redirect in place for a long time just in case...
I would consider this move. I just assume no one has ux even close. It would take me at least a year to fully transition from one gmail address.
This would not be a problem if websites themselves provided shortened URLs for all paths within their domain name: foo.com/2018/03/31/the-title-of-an-article => foo.com/a3ef33
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16722817 https://news.ycombinator.com/b00b00 not very short
Was thinking about registering goo.gl just for kicks (it was available back then) but turned off this idea because Greenland would charge $50+ for registering. And it had to be done over the FAX!
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16722817 https://news.ycombinator.com/b00b00 not very short
I do not understand. Please say what you mean in your message instead of just dropping some urls:s. For example now, your url:s goes to this submission and an unknown (!?). If you had written what you meant at least I could understand your point.
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Same here. Only thing I'm still strongly dependent on is gmail. I don't really think that's going away anytime soon, but out of principle I'd like to move away from it. Takes a lot of energy unfortunately and you probably need to keep a redirect in place for a long time just in case...
Is there a self-hosted web mail service w ux like gmail, that you can migrate to smoothly and pay a license for? I would consider this move. I just assume no one has ux even close. It would take me at least a year to fully transition from one gmail address.
I'm not sure how you guys feel about this, but personally, I've been avoiding Google services for the last couple of years because I just assume they'll eventually get shut down.
The last time I used an URL shortener was in the old days when Twitter still counted every character of the URL against the 140 char limit. I'm curious what use cases URL shortening services have nowadays?
"While most features of goo.gl will eventually sunset, all existing links will continue to redirect to the intended destination." https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/03/transitioning-goog...
I hope this doesn't change too. Felt I had to use it to link a humongous wikidata SPARQL query in a (software) research paper recently.
I'm not sure how you guys feel about this, but personally, I've been avoiding Google services for the last couple of years because I just assume they'll eventually get shut down.
Same here. Only thing I'm still strongly dependent on is gmail. I don't really think that's going away anytime soon, but out of principle I'd like to move away from it. Takes a lot of energy unfortunately and you probably need to keep a redirect in place for a long time just in case...
If anyone has suggestions I would be really interested in hearing them.