Scheme.org URL shortener Lassi Kortela (27 Jul 2022 14:17 UTC)
Re: Scheme.org URL shortener Lassi Kortela (05 Aug 2022 11:58 UTC)
Re: Scheme.org URL shortener Jakub T. Jankiewicz (05 Aug 2022 12:36 UTC)
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Scheme.org URL shortener Lassi Kortela 27 Jul 2022 14:17 UTC

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.