And it's a very reasonable concern. Admittedly, I get ~2mbps/down at home so it takes a bit to load and I'd been surprised that nobody else had commented on this until today. I've pushed it to the top of our v2.2 roadmap so it's our highest immediate focus now (will have a fix within a week).
Just trying to build this one step at a time wherever the community takes it!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_linking
Followup: I created a test and clicked the preview link and it shows "page not found". Not sure if it's because it takes a while or what, but if so then there should be a note somewhere about that. Also I have no idea how to publish this thing. I'd expect the publish option to be somewhere near the preview link. I then checked settings to see if it'd be in there for some reason but nope. However I did see the detail information. Honestly I think this should be the first screen and given a different name (possibly just "Details") since I wouldn't really classify these things as Settings. If I wasn't poking around I would have just assumed you weren't able to change these details because of that.
I see there's a "tour" option, but just wanted to let you know my reactions based on intuition since that's what most people will be going off of.
So by default, pages come unpublished (so it says page not found), but recently the suggestion has been made to publicize pages by default and we're think that would be a big help here, but we'll also reconsider moving the publish select to a button near your profile link. In the meantime you can update the "Visibility" under "Settings" (I also agree this would be better as details), but admittedly it's a bit mislabeled and without any tour or onboarding it's easy to see why it's hard to find. I'll take a good look at how it can be improved this over the next week.
Let me know if you have any more feedback, this was super helpful!
As for the visibility link, I see it now. The issue there is my intuition wouldn't have thought that'd be in the middle of a form. Was honestly expecting it to be something "broken out" and a colored but since it's actionable (with I suppose the dropdown arrow to the side with the other options). My personal opinion for the best place would be in the preview area. Up above the preview like the singlelink is now I'd have a dropdown with the publish options, a separate "Publish" button under that (colored to draw attention), and then a hyperlink of your singlelink with a clipboard symbol next to it to copy the link.
Also under the settings it'd be nice to have a checkbox for a round photo or a square photo.
Edit: After playing with it more I see that it auto-updates/publishes the changes you're making. Due to that I agree that it should publish by default. A staging feature might be a good option for your paid plans.
As for the photo, you can set your image border radius to 0 in appearance to change this! But it's nowhere near as easy to use as I'd like (added days ago), so it's easy to see why this can be overlooked. We're adding presets soon too (small bits of css that can be layered on top of themes, ex: square or circle avatar photo), so maybe we can make these easily selectable from the settings panel? I'll have to reconsider this.
Thanks again for the awesome feedback, it really helps.
https://app.singlelink.co/u/hanniabu
At further inspection it looks like with each click of the recursive link it generated 20 tracked links.
It also looks like the analytics doesn't treat each link independently. If I change a link it just relabels it in the analytics rather than creating a new tracking item. Sorry to be raining on your parade and tearing this apart so hard lol.
In regards to analytics, we're currently treating links like "blocks" in preparation for our new link types feature (then a link could be an image, video, form, checkout, plugin, etc.), so if you were to want a new tracking item created it would be recommended to create a new item and delete the old one rather than edit it. In the future, we'll have easy link visibility and duplication settings to make this an easy process. If you have any thoughts on how you'd expect/prefer this to be, let me know!