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Downvote all you want and enjoy your craft URLs, may they all be safe for aol of you.
The downvotes are because sive.rs is not a URL shortner. It's the blog this post (both the one you're quoting, and the link within) is written on. It's advocating for shorter permalinks.
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Haven't had that problem before, far more of a problem when I try to register with site specific email addresses like d+hn@nblows.com which I've tried to get in the habit of doing.
Why do people use plus addresses when minus/hyphen addresses are much less problematic? Are there many providers who support one, but not the other?
It's quite a convenient way to have site specific addresses while still only having a single mailbox to manage.
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My name’s Corlin and I own corl.in I sign up for accounts with emails like apple@corl.in and that lets me easily filter and organize my inbox. But when I have to tell some customer service rep my email they get very confused.
Can I ask how you host your emails? I have a similar situation but the price for most hosts for a wild-card domain is prohibitive.
Almost every email host that supports custom domains supports receiving email with unlimited wild-cards. Is there something I'm missing?
Example: https://www.fastmail.com/pricing/ ($3/month)
I own a 3-letter domain with a 2-letter TLD and still spells my family name. Many of my friends finds it cool when I share links via that domain. The links are indeed easy to remember but it comes at a higher yearly cost of renewal and I had forgotten to renew twice. Luckily, I was able to re-register them (nobody wants it, ;-)). Example https://oin.am/rr/
How many people type the whole URL and how many access it over Google, QR code, or from other site? This is good if content is unique. I find URLs with dates useful when I want to quickly assess how fresh is the content.
I often find articles that don't have the date at all, and the information turns out to be really out of date. Is hiding the date some kind of SEO trend?
At the same time I also always find articles that have an "Updated at" timestamp of a few days ago, I guess that's somehow done automatically to gain some recency points for SEO, not sure if that or removing the timestamp is more annoying.
I would love some sort of standard for "short" URLs that are primarily designed for sharing. This would serve as an alternative to the current – usually hierarchial – URLs that are primarily designed around SEO.
A simple, generic way could be a hash of the original URL with a compact representation:
http://example.com/some/path/to/stuff?filter1=asdf&filter2=90#positionX
http://example.com/s/Wq_2
Yes, short is always good, I recently got http://moty.ar
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My name’s Corlin and I own corl.in I sign up for accounts with emails like apple@corl.in and that lets me easily filter and organize my inbox. But when I have to tell some customer service rep my email they get very confused.
Can I ask how you host your emails? I have a similar situation but the price for most hosts for a wild-card domain is prohibitive.
I know this is not available any more so I've done the same with Cloudflare Email Routing which lets you set up a catch-all and is (still) free.
I don't like this at all - there is value in a hierarchical naming structure - even if it doesn't represent actual directories . A simple example is: https://www.kozubik.com/ ... where you can find "items": https://www.kozubik.com/items/ ... and one thing inside of "items" is an article on NDS emitters: https://www.kozubik.com/items/nds/ ... which contains supporting multimedia objects: https://www.kozubik.com/items/…
You can't win, haha
I think I prefer a middleground. I like Sivers' short URLs but I'd go with a word rather than just letters. Letters seems like a step too far for my preferences, looks untidy.
In real reality I'd probably use both methods. Long SEO-delicious URL for the actual article, short redirect to it, best of both worlds. Use whichever is appropriate for the medium (preferring to link online to the non-redirect for less future hassle)
How many people type the whole URL and how many access it over Google, QR code, or from other site? This is good if content is unique. I find URLs with dates useful when I want to quickly assess how fresh is the content.
I often find articles that don't have the date at all, and the information turns out to be really out of date. Is hiding the date some kind of SEO trend?
I hate this trend, one theory I heard was that it helps the content appear "ever-green".
Another theory is that it helps hide inactivity of content updates; like 100s of articles will be produced in a short span of time and then nothing for months or even years.
But yes, I hate it.