I created this a year or so ago but recently made updates and I thought people might like to know that it exists.<p>I made this to easily send links or text to someone else verbally, like over the phone or over voice chat (which is what I made it for). The goal is to be able to tell the link to someone else without being ambiguous or needing to spell it out, so I grabbed the words off a Grade 5 level dictionary. I understand that the domain itself doesn’t qualify but I’m trying to get a better domain.
What about a trade-off between compound-ness and duration? If you want a 10-minute link, you really probably want something that's dead-simple to say like "zigg.be/fit". If its a 30-day lease, you might be willing to go for "zigg.be/greencatjumps" This allows shorter URLs to stay in a faster reuse pool.
Why are short links being regenerated when the source link is the same? For example, when I try to shorten <a href="http://google.com/" rel="nofollow">http://google.com/</a> the short link comes out different each time. You would save _a lot_ of words by re-using them.
I would like an option that resets the counter on each access, so urls are always valid for a timeframe from the last access.<p>what about self destructing links - as an option - it goes away upon being accessed - could be fun for text, although, entirely useless :))
Expiration on a url shortener means linkrot, which is the #1 problem with such services, so seeing this as a feature is a bit strange to say the least.
I created this a year or so ago but recently made updates and I thought people might like to know that it exists.<p>I made this to easily send links or text to someone else verbally, like over the phone or over voice chat (which is what I made it for). The goal is to be able to tell the link to someone else without being ambiguous or needing to spell it out, so I grabbed the words off a Grade 5 level dictionary. I understand that the domain itself doesn’t qualify but I’m trying to get a better domain.<p>I hope others find it useful!
not overally consistent...
links are speakble - try to make domain speakable like short.be, better yet short.com (as everyone knows .com)<p>how one's supposed to know how many 'g' is there ;]
Worked fine when I just tried it.<p>Question is, what happens to those snappy URLs when more than a few (thousand, million, billion) folks discover it?
It may be coincidence but are you choosing from a dictionary of real words or doing some clever Markova chaining? I am guessing the former - if so is there not an upper limit to total active links ?
This was also done some years back as <a href="http://linkpot.net/" rel="nofollow">http://linkpot.net/</a> so podcasters could read out URLs on their show more easily.<p>However by just testing it I think I broke it..
Is there any way to tell if the link I have is expired, or show what the long version of the link is before I visit it or am I likely to get goatse'd if I'm a minute too late clicking the link?