[kornhole]

I generally always run any shortened link through a link checker before opening. So they are an inconvenience to me.

The time it took you to write all this evidences the problem with hosting the service publicly.

Yesterday I ran into problem with sharing a link to a simplex.chat group which was so long my website builder translated it incorrectly. I looked at link shorteners publicly available and now understand from your writeup why they are somewhat limited now. I found it easier to just spin up my own link shortener on my webserver using Shuri. It took less than a minute for me install. I won't publicize its availability now that I have read this.

[doakes]

Which link checker(s) do you use?

[kornhole]

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.trianguloy.urlchecker/

[SushiHippie]

Not OP but I use https://wheregoes.com, as it shows you all redirects that happen.