shorten Urls..

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Re: shorten Urls..

Reply #15 – March 01, 2013, 02:05:59 pm

If you're doing it purely on saving, you only have to accept the lookup penalty the first time. (Though that gets into a situation in itself, over whether you link to a private topic in a public board, the title potentially would be 'leaked')

I hate to say it but what FB does is pretty slick... it goes to get previews/whatever while you're still posting.

Re: shorten Urls..

Reply #16 – March 01, 2013, 03:28:51 pm

Yes I understand that it's a one hit thing, but it'd be a PITA to have timeouts just because some external site you wanted to link to was being unresponsive.

And linking to private topics in public boards is a moderation thing.

Re: shorten Urls..

Reply #17 – March 01, 2013, 03:35:25 pm

I was mostly concentrating on the internal links angle - the lookup is not particularly expensive to do and even then it's still only once per save.

You're right, the leaking aspect is a moderation thing. I'm just naturally wary about users griping about the software being broken when it isn't.

Re: shorten Urls..

Reply #18 – March 01, 2013, 07:52:16 pm

Quote from: Arantor – March 01, 2013, 02:05:59 pmI hate to say it but what FB does is pretty slick... it goes to get previews/whatever while you're still posting.

Ah yes, so does G+, for the first link, and it is a quite cool behavior I'd say.

Re: shorten Urls..

Reply #19 – November 04, 2013, 06:00:15 pm

I think this was not implemented, right?

Re: shorten Urls..

Reply #20 – November 04, 2013, 06:43:07 pm

I don't think so, we should add the css since thats safe and clean. I'll look to convert the mod over to Elk so we have that to play with.

Re: shorten Urls..

Reply #21 – November 05, 2013, 02:13:24 am

Yep, yep, I was thinking about the simple css-shortening, sorry is I didn't explain better.