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		blowski on May 9, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Short URLs: Why and How I’m it sure what this optimises for. Those who care about SEO use long slugs for the extra juice. Those who don’t can use IDs or whatever works for them. Shareable URLs - still need to share the domain, and most of us (including sive.rs) don’t have a particularly memorable one.

Brajeshwar on May 9, 2022 [–]

You forgot one key thing -- fun. I do these things mostly for fun and smiles, for me and others.

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