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by scribu 5106 days ago
Offtopic: What's the point of using tinyurl outside of twitter? I would understand if you had your own vanity shortener (it would be obnoxius, but at least it would make some kind of sense).
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On small screens, sometimes long urls wrap and break? I was first introed to url shorteners to get around breakage, long before I ever heard of twitter.
HN shortens display of long URLs automatically and shorteners are bad long term so please don't use them here.
I don't think I ever have. But thank you for the reminder. I knew that about HN but did not recall it.