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[i]Should[/i] we use tinyurl and similar in HWA posts?
Not sure if "off-topic" is where this belongs, but I'd like to raise the serious question: Should tinyurl.com and similar third-party web-tools be used here at HWA? (from now on in this post, "tinyurl"...
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john albrich said: ...1) By relying on any external company's website to maintain the database of actual URLs this puts HWA at risk of losing the content of all those shortened links... Same applies...
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Personally I think the best option would be that if the URL is over a certain amount of characters to shorten it and put "...". Then when you do a mouse roll-over it should show the full URL either...
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Or simply code URL html/bb code, so you could have [url="http://www.whateverthehellyouwant.com/dasfasfasfsa/asfdasfassfas"]My Link[/url] and you'd see: My Link
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DublinGunner said: Or simply code URL html/bb code, so you could have Second that... we needed that for a long long time....
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As long as a solution provides that the actual link details remain accessible to the user and can't be spoofed, it's good.
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I vote URL BB Code too. Robots sometimes do stupid things. XD
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Adam Kolak said: Personally I think the best option would be that if the URL is over a certain amount of characters to shorten it and put "...". Then when you do a mouse roll-over it should show the...
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Vitaliy (Administrator) said: Adam Kolak said: Personally I think the best option would be that if the URL is over a certain amount of characters to shorten it and put "...". Then when you do a mouse...
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Vitaliy (Administrator) said: As for the bbcode tag.. the reason we don't have is because it's a huge invitation for spam. We may think about this a bit, perhaps allow it for "experienced" members with...
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Excellent! Thank you for the addition, Vitaliy. HWA rocks as always. BTW, where is John Albrich? Haven't seen him in the forum for the past two weeks. I remember some threads got into a bit of flame...
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This is wonderful news! I've been smacked around a bit for posting 700+ character URLs in the past....sorry guys and gals, and have been resistant to using tinyurl for the reasons previously stated,...
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Hmm... I'll test it right now. http://find.myrecipes.com/recipes/recipefinder.dyn?action=disp..._id=689980 http://www.google.com.pr/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&...mp;spell=1...
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