> Why not just 'attach' a url to a notice as you would attach an image > to an email? then length is not an issue. If you don't mess with the > message content and just add a char to specify the links in order > surely this is achievable? > > i.e. > > "This is a notice with an interesting #link. Ooo look, this #link > is useful too. I want to #tag this notice also." > > 1. http://link.one/message-url/is-very-long.html > 2. http://you.can/cgi-bin/also.cgi?have=lots%20of%20special%characters > 3. http://statusnet.installation/tags/tag
It's an interesting idea. The only downside I've thought of (and granted, I've dedicated only about 10 seconds of mental processing power at this point) is that this is not how microblogging services work now, so it will take a bit of work on the users' part to get used to it. > Your could hide the link information from the timeline and if people > want to see it they can click a "show links" button. Users are lazy. They're not going to want to do that, so the vast majority of links will never been seen. > IMHO this has always been a failing of microbloging services, url > shortening is very unintuative/confising. Url's are packed with good > information, they should not be replaced with "http://ur1.ca/106o";. I couldn't agree more! > Not mentioning that using services like ur1.ca create a single point > of failure.... the anti web :) Especially considering how some of the shortening services have already closed down, I agree this is a major problem. > Many respected people on the web have raised this argument. > > Just a thought. > > Paul _______________________________________________ StatusNet-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.status.net/mailman/listinfo/statusnet-dev
