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mikeal / dropub

P2P publishing for everyone.
https://dropub.com
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URL shortener #4

Open dralletje opened 7 years ago

dralletje commented 7 years ago

Awesome project! :)

Would you like a PR that integrates a simple "short url" field that uses an URL shortener API to shorten the (pretty huge) magnet link? Even though I'm only sharing it digitally, it does look bad in whatsapp still.

If we don't want to rely on any extra centralized service, could we "assume" a part of the magnet link, like the trackers, just to save some space in our whatsapp messages?

revolunet commented 7 years ago

also a QRcode, when using mobile ?

mikeal commented 7 years ago

So, one of the goals is to have zero cloud storage which means that we have to jam a lot of state into the URL. If there's a way to compress it I'm all for it though, I just don't want to use any permanent cloud storage.