[ohadron]

Nicely demonstrates why outsourcing link shorteners is risky - they go out of business and your link is dead.

[eythian]

There is an archiveteam project to index all the shorteners and where they direct to. I think it's the default project if you're running the warrior and there's nothing more important going on.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=URLTeam

[neilv]

This was predicted and warned about when the link shorteners first appeared, decades ago.

But people keep using them (for a while for Twitter, but maybe mainly for analytics, though they could self-host and accomplish the same thing).

[vlan121]

Infact this is a problem that we'll face someday.

[comprev]

vb.ly is an example of this happening.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/oct/08/bitly-lib...