Zohran and the Short Link

52 points | by wxw an hour ago

19 comments

  • amazingamazing 8 minutes ago

    I like click to cancel

  • gravypod 34 minutes ago

    People are discovering go links from first principles.

  • kevitivity 27 minutes ago

    I have no idea if this is a good idea or not. My problem is that I can't get past Zohran's awful politics.

      Aboutplants 12 minutes ago

      What specific policies do you disagree with out of curiosity

      the_gastropod 4 minutes ago

      Go on, dawg! Be specific!

      livinglist 8 minutes ago

      At this point I care more about decency than politics.

      mjmsmith 17 minutes ago

      It's ok to keep our personal problems to ourselves.

  • slopinthebag 21 minutes ago

    This seems so amateur hour. The way the links work in this post are broken on mobile, and the first one I managed to make work was full of trivial grammatical errors.

      bakies 8 minutes ago

      Works on my machine. Didn't see any grammar errors.

  • micromacrofoot 43 minutes ago

    this is how the government should communicate with its people - push out via all social media channels but always link back to something everyone can access!

    hopefully this stuff gets pushed out via email too? not enough open protocols to receive pushes from otherwise

      jachee 31 minutes ago

      What if I told you there’s an existing protocol for doing Really Simple Syndication?

        tadfisher 25 minutes ago

        Sorry, we're on the wrong timeline. The worse one, in fact.

  • SwellJoe 32 minutes ago

    Given how untrustworthy the most popular social media providers have proven to be, it's madness that so many politicians and government accounts still use things like Xitter or facebook as their primary communication medium.

    Even ignoring the political misinformation that is rampant on these platforms and often promoted widely by the platform because it is inflammatory and gets lots of engagement, they also severely punish posts that link away from the site, which public safety and government accounts obviously need to do. It's a hazard for public safety info to be targeted primarily at a feed designed to bury it. Even if you're following those accounts on Xitter or facebook, they're effectively never going to show you their posts.

  • GauntletWizard 31 minutes ago

    The problem with these short pithy urls is that their lifetime is limited - there's only so many initiative names and they're going to collide and be removed and replaced.

    Cool uris don't change[1]. Short, readable uris are great but they should be merely redirecs, and the mapping should be version controlled and exposed to the public as an immutable history.

    [1] https://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

      pavo-etc 8 minutes ago

      Luckily these are merely redirects!

  • jimmydoe 33 minutes ago

    does it matter?

    big tech has long canceled url on phones.

      api 26 minutes ago

      I can type a URL on today's iPhone just fine.

      Avicebron 28 minutes ago

      curl | bash is all you need?

  • ewwe 35 minutes ago

    Mamdani+ his team are genius at PR