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Re: 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age

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Post by ehamberg »

MaxGabriel wrote: post #58

What was your experience like using Scotty /Acid-State for this project?

I had briefly used Scotty before, but never acid-state. All of this is just the result of a discussion at work where my position was “oh, come on! it's not that stupid!”, so I just chose something I though would let me get a test site up and running really quickly.

I would probably polish it a bit more if I knew it would get this much attention, but hey! – it works, and uses almost no resources on the cheapest Digital Ocean account.

I recently saw some discussion about acid-state on Reddit, and it seems that the Hackage developers have had some troubles with it: http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/26405r/storing_data...

Re: 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age

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Post by ehamberg »

izzydata wrote: post #54

So, what would happen if I put in a url, then took the generated url and generated a shortened url on that and then did it again for about 1000 times?

To give you a clue: This was a really quick for-fun project and I did not expect it to get this much attention. ;-)

Re: 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age

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Post by ehamberg »

jebus989 wrote: post #19

All the usual HN nitpicking and obscure edge case discussion should probably be done in the light of ehamberg's own comment: "This is a horrible idea in many ways and was a quick hack for fun." [0] [0] https://github.com/ehamberg/9m

Yes, thanks for pointing that out. This was done really quickly and I didn't expect it to get that much attention. :-)

Re: 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age

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Post by billmalarky »

Dolimiter wrote: post #50
riffraff wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

no you don't, it's just a weird interface. Random UTF8 characters like the above example are generated automatically if you enter a url. You _can_ input your own to have something like http://✩.ws/awesometastic

I wouldn't call it a weird interface. I would call it the one of the most confusing and idiotic interfaces I've used in a while. Or perhaps I'm stupid? That's how the website made me feel.

Seconded. Am stupid. Website made me remember.

Re: 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age

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Post by TheLoneWolfling »

batuhanicoz wrote: post #14
smoyer wrote: post #10

I got http://9m.no/𑂜൭ for my daughter's website, but I'm wondering whether this helps shrink character count when used for services like twitter. It's not at all readable, but since it's two (I think) 4-byte unicode characters, will that URL be counted as 13 characters or 21 characters?

Twitter "shrinks" URL's no matter what. My website link is is 11 characters[0], I don't know how shorter it can get. [0] http://bt.hn

When is a URL shortener not a URL shortener?

http://qntm.org/twit

Re: 9m.no – Short URLs for the Unicode Age

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Post by davidcollantes »

buttscicles wrote: post #21
mp4box wrote: post #7

Probably should block the same domain from shortening.else you'll get something like http://9m.no/婀蒾 (multiple redirects)

I created a simple url shortener[0] a while back and though I thought of this I hadn't considered people could add a '.' to the domain to get around that (so http://yl.io/1 becomes http://yl.io./1 ), which somebody was nice enough to figure out for me ;) [0] http://yl.io

Care to share the source? I like its simplicity!
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