Re: Short URLs
💬 This is in reaction to Short URLs: why and how by Derek Sivers In the Beginning Were Short URLs I recently read Derek Sivers’s Short URLs: why and how, again. He makes a compelling case for using very short, but meaningful, URLs on your website. Very short here means one or two words at most, or even just 2 to 4 characters. On his website, that’s https://sive.rs/anna, https://sive.rs/plaintext https://sive.rs/1s, or indeed https://sive.rs/su for that particular post. That’s very different from typical URLs like https://lexi-lambda.github.io/blog/2019/11/05/parse-don-t-validate/1 or https://github.blog/changelog/2021-10-11-improved-notification-email-titles-for-issues-and-prs/. ...