{"id":79,"date":"2009-01-31T00:14:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2009-01-31T00:29:22","modified_gmt":"2009-01-31T06:29:22","slug":"my-gripe-with-tiny-urls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/my-gripe-with-tiny-urls\/","title":{"rendered":"My gripe with tiny urls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I got this newsletter via emai about some new conference in UX. Reading through the newsletter, I got to a few sections that used a few of those shorted URLs, such as created by websites like tinyurl.com. While I think shortened URLs are great for interfaces that have a restriction on characters, such as Twitter or SharePoint, I fail to see the good of a shortened URL in a newsletter. There are already gobs of text swimming around, what are a few extral characters in a URL going to do? I mean, if you&#8217;re going to take the time to write out an entire newsletter, I&#8217;d much rather see a longer and more meaningful URL than some shortened one that tells me nothing about the destination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I got this newsletter via emai about some new conference in UX. Reading through the newsletter, I got to a few sections that used a few of those shorted URLs, such as created by websites like tinyurl.com. While I think shortened URLs are great for interfaces that have a restriction on characters, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/my-gripe-with-tiny-urls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My gripe with tiny urls&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/82"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}