On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 5:11 AM, Evan Prodromou <[email protected]> wrote: > Craig Andrews wrote: >> >> I just made a commit to 0.8.x >> >> http://gitorious.org/laconica/mainline/commit/e2848eb8621dd645fa68cb1641c0af1df5530408 >> >> If a shortened URL begins with http://, don't include it in the shortened >> url. Saves 7 characters, which is pretty awesome for 140 character max >> length notices. >> >> I don't know why this wasn't done before... I think this will be really >> liked by users. >> > > But it won't be recognized as an URL by downstream systems like Facebook, > FriendFeed, and Twitter. > > I'm not sure it's the right thing to do. Opinions?
I'd rather see the 140 char rule relaxed than links become (even) harder to detect. A big part of why people use these systems is sharing links, and without http:// we'll end up with a pile of hacks like looking for "www." or "com" "co.uk" etc., which will end up either hard to maintain or missing out big chunks of the 'net... So a -1 from me, cheers, Dan _______________________________________________ Laconica-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.laconi.ca/mailman/listinfo/laconica-dev
