I have my own URL shortener at https://jcu.bi domain and I use
https://yourls.org/ that is written in PHP. It's good for personal usage but
for go.scheme.org I think that git repo will be much better, since we can
curate what is added.

One think that would be nice is some kind of analytics for the clicks. It's
not tracking just count how many times the link was open it may be useful for
people that create those links. This is not private data so this can be
public to everyone. But I'm not sure how difficult it will be to add.

yourls have counter but also nice graph that show when people visited the
page and from what countery (probably based on IP address).

On Fri, 5 Aug 2022 23:09:02 +0300
Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> wrote:

> > I would switch to using this shortener if:
> That would be great.
> > 1) I can pick my own short name, provided it is not in use
>
> Yes.
>
> In addition to global names go.scheme.org/foo, we could also let
> familiar people control a personal namespace like
> go.scheme.org/cowan/foo. That would make for an interesting public
> bookmarking service similar to the old site del.icio.us [sic?]
>
> > -- I currently use tinyurl.com <http://tinyurl.com> even though it
> > isn't very short, as I can create mnemonic reasonably-short URLs for
> > long S3 or Google Drive URLs.
> A good use.
> > 2) I can log in and review/update/delete all the URLs I have created.
>
> Instead of a custom login system, I'm in favor of pull requests on some
> git host (GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, etc.) That solves several problems in
> one: simplicity, authentication, spam, transparency, and we don't have
> to implement a custom UI for editing.
>
> For people who abhor the git host of choice, we can accept changes via
> email/irc. I expect this to be low-traffic enough that it's not a problem.
>
> > I realize that I am making more work for you, of course. :-)
> It's only a few clicks to merge PRs, and we can have several people with
> permission to merge them.

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