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gordian
Nice! Simple and to the point. Also makes very short URLs. How long can that last, though?
rickchendesign
Lol probably not for along time, What if I just blew away the db every month or so? Leaving dead links everywhere?
gordian
Depends on how the links are created. If they traverse combinations as they become available then it could be nice. Right now they may be just adding one random lowercase letter, then when those are all used up they switch to one uppercase letter. Then two character combinations until those are used up, etc., etc. Nice idea...
akkartik
I pasted in weakurl.com. Response: weakurl.com/2. Wouldn't it be shorter to just return the url? :D