URL Shortening - display the link instead of opening the shortened link in a new tab

raftario / filite

A simple, light and standalone pastebin, URL shortener and file-sharing service

MIT License

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URL Shortening - display the link instead of opening the shortened link in a new tab #4

Closed caycaycarly closed 4 years ago

caycaycarly commented 4 years ago

When a URL is shortened the existing behavior is that the shortened URL is opened in a new tab which them immediately resolves to the original URL. The purpose of a URL shortener is to shorten a url and being able to copy the url to share it to other people. But here, a user would have to remember the custom alias that he inputted, or the random alias that was generated before hitting the submit button.

raftario commented 4 years ago

Yeah that annoyed me too. Adding the option to copy created links to the clipboard would also be nice. Will be looking into that one as soon as possible.