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There are some funny result!

As cute as this is, it seems like an abuse of Github's resources to make your own url shortner.

I doubt he means it for someone to actually use...

It's just a proof of concept :)

Fair enough. Just sometimes people do stuff like that and try to convince people to use it regularly. ;)

You should Base62 encode the issue number in the URL string!

Base62? Why not a prime number?

Base62 is 26 lowercase + 26 uppercase + 10 digits

That would save characters, but then users wouldn't easily generate their own URL. Also, it's backwards incompatible...

Probably best to not use Github Issues as a cloud datastore.

ghub.is is available, just sayin' ...

Too long. The ideal domain would be “u.rl”.

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