A URL lengthener, for a change. Feedback appreciated.

#1

Post by joelwan » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 9:19 PM UTC

A URL lengthener, for a change. Feedback appreciated.
longerfuckingurls.com

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#2

Post by rhizome » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 9:25 PM UTC

http://www.lengthenmyurl.com/ from about a month and a half ago

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#3

Post by devmonk » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 9:26 PM UTC

get a new domain and remove the profanity, and you might develop a larger community and possibly (although somewhat unlikely) get some funding. otherwise, you will attract customers that like to shock people who will use it once to shock a friend or two and then will stop using it.

longerlink.com isn't taken. if ur fast you might get it.

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#4

Post by devmonk » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 9:29 PM UTC

rhizome wrote: post #2

http://www.lengthenmyurl.com/ from about a month and a half ago

doesn't work the same. l.m.u. just creates a meaningless hash string, whereas l.f.u. will put the youtube video title into the url, so that people may know what they are clicking on.

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#5

Post by joelwan » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 9:34 PM UTC

devmonk wrote: post #3

get a new domain and remove the profanity, and you might develop a larger community and possibly (although somewhat unlikely) get some funding. otherwise, you will attract customers that like to shock people who will use it once to shock a friend or two and then will stop using it. longerlink.com isn't taken. if ur fast you might get it.

thx for the suggestions. we do have a sfw version longerurls.com

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#6

Post by byoung2 » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 11:11 PM UTC

For links besides YouTube or Facebook, maybe you could take the meta title from the target page and urlify it

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#7

Post by joelwan » Wed, Nov 17, 2010, 11:57 PM UTC

byoung2 wrote: post #6

For links besides YouTube or Facebook, maybe you could take the meta title from the target page and urlify it

we tried to do this. Is it not working for you?

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#8

Post by msredmond » Thu, Nov 18, 2010, 12:15 AM UTC

+1 for domain name. I don't see any need myself for creating a longer URL, but I see the appeal of putting the f'word into some.

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#9

Post by byoung2 » Thu, Nov 18, 2010, 1:40 AM UTC

joelwan wrote: post #7

byoung2 wrote: post #6

For links besides YouTube or Facebook, maybe you could take the meta title from the target page and urlify it

we tried to do this. Is it not working for you?

Putting in http://www.yahoo.com gave me http://longerfuckingURLs.com/lfsv/yahoo