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Fav/Projects short links if not copied correctly mask other people's bit.ly links too... #269

Closed bjornmeansbear closed 9 years ago

bjornmeansbear commented 9 years ago

If I copy only a small section of the link… it takes me to something else entirely. It’s really not good for any R&G link even an incorrect one to link to something that is not R&G related.. An incorrect link should go to a rogers and goffigon page with a not-found message.

http://fav.rogersandgoffigon.com/1wk vs http://fav.rogersandgoffigon.com/1wkWe vs http://fav.rogersandgoffigon.com/1wkWe5d (this one is actually one)

bjornmeansbear commented 9 years ago

Anything that can be done about this?

webmasterkai commented 9 years ago

We'd need to build our own link shortner service. Does RG want to pay for that? They want to use a domain that is too long to use with bitly so we had to build a redirect service.

bjornmeansbear commented 9 years ago

Crap. I was afraid of that.

So, one solution would be to buy another domain? like randg.co would then be able to be a legit shortening service using bit.ly that would cost them just the new url free each year.

Otherwise it's $1000 in a new feature? $2000?

webmasterkai commented 9 years ago

It would be a monthly fee instead of a one-time fee. Probably $50/mo.

bjornmeansbear commented 9 years ago

so to do this: http://support.bitly.com/knowledgebase/articles/76741-how-do-i-set-up-a-custom-short-domain-#kb

they'd need a new domain, do they need the "bit.ly branded tools" or whatever?

What's the "custom build solution"

and alternately, we could just spit out the crazy long url ...

ugh.

webmasterkai commented 9 years ago

I have an idea for this.

webmasterkai commented 9 years ago

http://fav.rogersandgoffigon.com/1wXUFM0 http://fav.rogersandgoffigon.com/1wXUFM http://fav.rogersandgoffigon.com/1wXU

webmasterkai commented 9 years ago

Forwarding the long url to a custom short url.

bjornmeansbear commented 9 years ago

I think that will work for now. I'll tell them here's the immediate solution that at least doesn't take you somewhere weird, and didn't require much extra work — but we can't make it do a custom R&G "not found" page without building a custom shortening service, or without them paying for something else...

bjornmeansbear commented 9 years ago

At least it doesn't take you to some random person's flickr profile :)

webmasterkai commented 9 years ago

or some racy imgur images!

bjornmeansbear commented 9 years ago

whew. yeah. well. definitely better. thx.

webmasterkai commented 9 years ago

I'm closing this. We can make a new issue if we need to make something else specific.