> aside: > i'd appreciate if people don't use url shorteners when there is no need to. > it reduces the risk for link rot, and makes pages easier to search for, should > the urls ever change.
As an aside to the aside, I didn’t know that anti-url-shorteners was a cause..! I can see the points against randomized url shorteners, but I use customized ones to help me share complex links. It is a lot easier to remember to type http://j.mp/jellyv or http://j.mp/youvel than type out the YouTube gobbledygook. These custom ones also have the opposite effect on link permanence, since I can edit the redirect if the URL ever changes. Of course this does assume stability of the host service, and since the .ly in bit.ly stands for Lybia, I could see how that might be a problem. OK, everyone get back to saving the world. -Steve _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
