dantheclamman to TechnologyEnglish • 6 months agoGoogle is finally shutting down its link shortener after killing it off years agowww.androidpolice.commessage-square25arrow-up1179arrow-down12
arrow-up1177arrow-down1external-linkGoogle is finally shutting down its link shortener after killing it off years agowww.androidpolice.comdantheclamman to TechnologyEnglish • 6 months agomessage-square25
minus-squareDeebsterlinkfedilinkEnglish12•6 months agoI wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some service that gave out shortened links by default and people just used those everywhere. Lots of people are clueless about how URLs work, and authoring HTML often means filling in a form.
minus-squareVictorlinkEnglish1•6 months ago authoring HTML often means filling in a form. What, like, DreamWeaver style? Sounds cray-cray to me (as a web developer).
minus-squareDeebsterlinkfedilinkEnglish3•6 months agoI’m thinking more like using a CMS or Wordpress by people who don’t consider themselves developers.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some service that gave out shortened links by default and people just used those everywhere. Lots of people are clueless about how URLs work, and authoring HTML often means filling in a form.
What, like, DreamWeaver style? Sounds cray-cray to me (as a web developer).
I’m thinking more like using a CMS or Wordpress by people who don’t consider themselves developers.
Ah, right. Yeah…