The engagement with my presentation for instance. I don’t care about tracking specific users.
It doesn’t change the user-facing URL like a shortener.
Where the user-facing URL points can easily be changed! For instance, changing the DNS record or changing where the reverse proxy points. I really don’t think you understand how the internet works under the hood.
Someone archiving the original content. It’s your fault for breaking the link at a whim.
I’m not going to optimize my content for lazy archivers. Check out web.archive.org for an example of how to properly archive, they update the URLs so links don’t break
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Whose engagement? Anything on your server, you can track it with the access logs, do you know how the internet works?
Do you know how a reverse proxy works? It doesn’t change the user-facing URL like a shortener.
Someone archiving the original content. It’s your fault for breaking the link at a whim.
URL shorteners are inherently bad.
The engagement with my presentation for instance. I don’t care about tracking specific users.
Where the user-facing URL points can easily be changed! For instance, changing the DNS record or changing where the reverse proxy points. I really don’t think you understand how the internet works under the hood.
I’m not going to optimize my content for lazy archivers. Check out web.archive.org for an example of how to properly archive, they update the URLs so links don’t break