[packetslave]

One thing I miss from fburl (Facebook's go-links) is that pretty much EVERY internal system had built-in support for creating them.

A perfect example would be the Scuba and OBS observability UIs. Instead of sharing a gnarly 500-character URL in chat to point someone to a specific query, you click "generate fburl" and get a short link.

More and more commercial/open-source software has built-in support for creating their own short links these days (Grafana and Kibana both do), but having it be ubiquitous -- and easy to integrate into new tools -- was really nice.

[radicality]

Was at FB for many years, and I so miss this, getting an fburl from almost anywhere I am and quickly being able to send that over to someone. Now whenever I try to share some link (eg a Datadog dashboard link), I have to send over humongous urls over slack / wherever.