Re: shorten Urls..
Reply #15 –
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 –
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 –
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 #19 –
I think this was not implemented, right?
Re: shorten Urls..
Reply #20 –
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.