Comment by lancefisher | Hacker News Reader

Comment by lancefisher | Hacker News Reader

I use bit.ly for shorting links and tracking stats just like the article mentions. It used to work great for that. Paste a link, :boom: it's shortened, and I can press a button to copy. The only thing that would make it better is if I didn't have to click copy afterwards.

Now, I have to click "add bitmark" (and figure out what the heck that is), paste the link, add an optional note, click save, then click copy before the flash message goes away. If it does go away, I have to click info, then copy the link. This is extremely annoying; the first time especially so.

Bit.ly wants to be the new delicious. Fine. Whatever. Just keep the one-step process for making short URLs. That's why I'm using it in the first place.

I don't understand, there is a clearly visible text input field down the page, where you insert a long URL, press enter/click, and out comes a shortlink. What's wrong? Just ignore the sign-in buttons.

(checked only 2 hours after this post)

You should check out weakurl. I wrote it last night!

http://weakurl.com

Rick

For how many years do you intend to keep that up? You might as well call it deadurl.com

With delicious being totally dead, I think it is worth having at a new bookmarking service (haven't checked this yet myself).

Delicious isn't completely dead it's owned by the guys who started YouTube and turned into something of a pinterest clone (which is kind of where bookmarking has gone)

The original delicious is completely dead for sure.

Yeah, I still use it. After all, I have many years of bookmarks in there. I'm happy to see it emerging from stasis now that Yahoo has set it free.

I still use it too. I like it, but it seems to be down 1 out of 3 times I try to use it, so let's just say it's 33% dead.

There are other services - like http://pinboard.in which serve the same purpose.

https://kippt.com/ http://pinboard.in/

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