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Citations are citations, if it's a link, you link to it. But using shorteners for that is silly.
It's not silly if the link is a couple hundred characters long.
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Modern webservers are very, very fast on modern CPUs. I hear Google has some CPU infrastructure? I don't know if GCP has a free tier like AWS does, but 10kQPS is likely within the capability of a free EC2 instance running nginx with a static redirect map. Maybe splurge for the one with a full GB of RAM? No problem.
You can serve immense volumes of traffic from static html. One hardware server alone could so easily do the job.
Your attack surface is also tiny without a back end interpreter.
People will chime in with redundancy, but the point is Google could stop maintaining the ingress, and still not be douches about existing urls.
But... you know, it's Google.
Google’s own services generate goo.gl short URLs (Google Maps generates https://maps.app.goo.gl/ URLs for sharing links to map locations), so I assume this shutdown only affects user-generated short URLs. Google’s original announcement doesn’t say as such, but it is carefully worded to specify that short URLs of the “ https://goo.gl/ * format” will be shut down. Google’s probably trying to stop goo.gl URLs from being…
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I have always struggled with this. If I buy a book I don’t want an online/URL reference in it. Put the book/author/isbn/page etc. Or refer to the magazine/newspaper/journal/issue/page/author/etc.
I mean preferably do both, right? The URL is better for however long it works.
From the blog post: "more than 99% of them had no activity in the last month" https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-li... This is a classic product data decision-making fallacy. The right question is "how much total value do all of the links provide", not "what percent are used".
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Citations are citations, if it's a link, you link to it. But using shorteners for that is silly.
It's not silly if the link is a couple hundred characters long.
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It's not silly if the link is a couple hundred characters long.
Adding an external service so you don’t have to store a few hundred bytes is wild, particularly within a pdf.
It's the fact that it's likely gonna be printed in a paper journal, where you can't click the link.
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Google killing their domains service was the last straw for me. I started moving all of my stuff off of Google since then.
I'm still shocked that my google voice number still functions after all these years. It makes me assume it's main purpose is to actually be an honeypot of some sort, maybe for spam call detection.
I have a tiny service built on top of Google App Engine that (only) I use personally. I made it 15+ years ago, and the last time I deployed changes was 10+ years ago.
It's still running. I have no idea why.
From the blog post: "more than 99% of them had no activity in the last month" https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-li... This is a classic product data decision-making fallacy. The right question is "how much total value do all of the links provide", not "what percent are used".
> The right question is "how much total value do all of the links provide", not "what percent are used". Yes, but it doesn't bring in the sweet promotion home, unfortunately. Ironically, if 99% of them doesn't see any traffic, you can scale back the infra, run it in 2 VMs, and make sure a single person can keep it up as a side quest, just for fun (but, of course, pay them for their work). This beancounting really mak…