TimLeland

Hopefully he has a backup

I feel for you :(

Yes ftp would not work lol

Ok so curious why you are running Windows XP :)

Curious to how you are still running IE6 :)

Yes, you are correct. I don't have anything fancy planned. Users with accounts are able to customize the ending so this will increase the availability. Currently, Bitly is up to 7 characters long when you create a random short URL. T.LY is already 2 characters shorter and there are still plenty of short random URLs 62^5 = 916,132,832

Haha nice that's better!

HTTPS is not required. t.ly works fine without "https://"

haha nice! I built the exact opposite the shortest possible URL shortener :) https://t.ly/

The person selling the AAA song is brilliant lol

Link to weather extension if anyone is interested: https://weatherextension.com/

I'm curious how many more installs the extensions received from being promoted. My weather extension has been part of Firefox's recommended program for some time and has seen some growth but not substantial. I do like that people can trust that the "recommended" extensions are reviewed more heavily and in general are safer extensions. Honored they included my extensions and offer this option.

T.LY generates QR codes for all short links generated. We also have a simple tool for creating QR codes from any URL https://t.ly/qr-code-generator

Yes T.LY uses a 301 redirect which is better for SEO for the long url domain.

Take a look at https://t.ly/ as an alternative to tinyurl. You can update the url ending on the $5 a month plan. It’s a shorter domain with more options available.

Yes wirecutter exist because of affiliate links but they do offer detailed reviews. I use/trust them often for purchases and amazon affiliates do not cost the user anything extra.

Yes always been there. There are additional plans once you register for more short links and teams.

Yes cloudflare for speed and protection. Digitalocean for file storage. I may remove google analytics.

Interesting..How many sites work without javascript these days? Does google?

Yes I do have the site behind cloudflare but could remove the javascript rocket loader feature. I will look into this. Thanks for sharing!

Try curl https://t.ly/c55j

The response is:

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url='https://weatherextension.com/'" />

Sorry about that. I honestly didn't think anyone browsed the web without javascript enabled. How common is that? We do offer a simple to use api that you could build on top of to shorten link. Also an extension that offers the ability to shorten a url in one click.

API Docs: https://t.ly/docs/

Extension: https://t.ly/extension

Thank you! The site and extension are free to use to shorten links. I do offer the ability to upgrade starting at $5 a month which allows custom domains, ability to customize links, expire links based on date or clicks, private stats, ability to shorten links using the API (https://t.ly/docs/).

I also recently release a new feature called OneLinks that are great for social media bios. Here is an example on a OneLink: https://t.ly/TimLeland

Extension Link: https://t.ly/extension

This is really interesting. I suppose tiny url gets a kicked back from their ad network for this. I'm the creator of the URL shortener (T.LY) and a Link Unshortener tool. I spend most of my development time fighting bad actors. My goal is to have a legitimate competitor to bitly that people benefit from. We do not set any cookies on redirects but do use cookies for authentication for users.

T.LY: https://t.ly/

Link Unshortener: https://linkunshorten.com/

This is amazing :) "At IMGZ, we're passionate about two things: Serving images, and speaking about ourself in the plural so it doesn't look like it's the one-man sideproject it is, and we don't even really care about serving images that much. "

Thanks! Your project is really neat. Curious how long github would let it go and if they have a max number of issues. In a short time, T.LY has almost 5 millions short links. I have a lot of users using the shortener from the extension https://t.ly/extension

Better be ready for the malicious links. I'm the developer of https://t.ly/ link shortener. I spend most of my time adding in protection to prevent people from using the service for malicious links.

Confused about what makes this optimized for QR. Other shorteners such as https://t.ly/ have a shorter domain and they have an extension that allows you to shorten a url then easily share the qr code http://t.ly/extension. They also offer an api etc.

This sounds like a good idea. I was lucky to get my Weather Extension listed as a recommended extension. There is extra work involved and the code reviews are strict. I plan on submitting my Link Shortener extension to see if I can get it promoted.

I guess it depends on language and features you want. Here is a popular one in php https://polrproject.org/