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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
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So now that bit.ly is showing ads, if you need a URL shortener, is decent and and easy to host. And before you tell me that we don't need URL shorteners anymore and how they're a security risk, I need them for:
1. Business cards, slides, signs, and other physical objects that need a URL. While most phones can scan QR Codes, you can't read them out loud for folks. If you're doing a presentation, "scan the QR code on screen" isn't good enough. You need to have a URL that you can speak and another human can remember. Yes, NFC is a thing, but it doesn't solve that problem.
2. Places that still don't allow URLs (LinkedIn) or where long URLs are awkward to work with (text-only emails, the terminal, etc.)
3. Times (like a phone call) where I need to tell someone a URL using the noises that come from my face-parts

Find it here: getlynx.dev
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Toni Barth @ToniBarth@troet.cafe
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@fastfinge Unfortunately Lynx doesn't seem to get any further updates anymore for now. I guess it works and will continue to work for quite a while too, if I wanted to start a new URL shortener now I'd most likely pick something that is under active development though. Its really good to know that it is accessible though, thanks.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @fastfinge@interfree.ca
1y
@ToniBarth The issue is that I couldn't find anything that's under active development and met my requirements. Those being: dockerized, quick and simple, ability for only logged-in users to create urls, ability for admin to manage created urls, ability to set custom urls rather than using random ones, no disgusting click tracking.
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