Anybody want a Scheme-themed URL shortening service? It would be easy to set up a subdomain (e.g. "via") for user-submitted URLs like this: via.scheme.org/asn1-ler via.scheme.org/workshop2022 via.scheme.org/twinjo via.scheme.org/... each of which redirects to a user-chosen URL. This is similar to how general-purpose shorteners like https://bit.ly/ work, but: - We wouldn't have ads or tracking. - Scheme is niche enough that we could store all the URLs in a flat file database and accept new submissions via pull request instead of letting anyone add any URL via an unsafe HTML form. - Storing the DB in a public git repo has the nice side effect that anyone can look at all the URLs at once, and the community can fix or remove broken links. Another application is that some programming tasks require the coder to coin identifiers in the form of URLs; the URL shortener would also double as an easy source of Scheme-themed identifiers for those purposes.
