On 5/15/2013 1:08 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
The problem with short URLs is that they're completely opaque: you have no idea where they go. Ex: I didn't know if it was for the reddit, youtube, or the DConf page. Besides, hyperlinking and copy/paste tend to obviate any benefit of shortened URLs. "goo.gl" and such are extremely useful if you're giving someone a URL over the phone, but aside from that, I've never seen much of a point.
Twitter used to pretty much require use of shortened URLs, but they fixed that problem, and now I use full length ones on it.
