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The most common failure case I see for broken QR codes is it scans fine but it was created using some commercial link-bouncer service and they stopped paying the subscription fees so the redirect is dead.
The most common failure case I see for broken QR codes is it scans fine but it was created using some commercial link-bouncer service and they stopped paying the subscription fees so the redirect is dead.
This infuriates me. You are using a QR exactly to easily share a (long) link, why the hell you need to use a link shortener? Why is the market for small shops, restaurants, bars, small museums, small towns etc so riddled with technically incompetent people?
The most common failure case I see for broken QR codes is it scans fine but it was created using some commercial link-bouncer service and they stopped paying the subscription fees so the redirect is dead.
The most common failure case I see for broken QR codes is it scans fine but it was created using some commercial link-bouncer service and they stopped paying the subscription fees so the redirect is dead.
This infuriates me. You are using a QR exactly to easily share a (long) link, why the hell you need to use a link shortener? Why is the market for small shops, restaurants, bars, small museums, small towns etc so riddled with technically incompetent people?
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If the problem is that the software can't find the centre, it could say so ,- that would hint to people that their icon is the problem
The problem isn't that it can't find the center, it's that you reduce redundancy by replacing those pixels with the icon. It can find the center fine and still be unable to scan because there isn't enough information there.
* https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capit...
That being said, I believe bar codes have the UPC number below it in case the code itself is damaged. Could QR codes have a similar textual encoding to identify them? And would that even fit legibly in the square?
[1] - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365-life-hacks/pri...
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The problem isn't that it can't find the center, it's that you reduce redundancy by replacing those pixels with the icon. It can find the center fine and still be unable to scan because there isn't enough information there.
but also because the link used has a bunch of tracking clumsily added, which further complicates scanning the thing. Compare the visual complexity of the QR code for HTTP://INSTAGRAM.COM/USERNAME (all caps is important*) vs the cutesy one the app generates. * https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capit...
A software tool should exist to repair QR codes. People could really benefit from it because QR codes are used everywhere. I'd like to find a way to repair QR codes through software. However, that begins with collecting a bunch of broken and corrupted QR codes people stumble across and fixing them up by hand. This will help spot patterns in how they fail. So please help out by submitting your QR code that doesn't sca…
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but also because the link used has a bunch of tracking clumsily added, which further complicates scanning the thing. Compare the visual complexity of the QR code for HTTP://INSTAGRAM.COM/USERNAME (all caps is important*) vs the cutesy one the app generates. * https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/02/why-are-qr-codes-with-capit...
Yes, but that's more of a failing of the standard (a very natural usage pattern ends up being bad) vs what the user (or some app) did.