Beta test my new URL shortener
 

As a service to you, the Cellar community, I have created an URL shortener.

http://cllr.me

It is a simple device that converts long URLs such as ...

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/...s-to-95/59101/

... into shorter URLs that you can move around more easily:

http://cllr.me/UAk

I hope to develop more such tools for the Cellar community, so that we can all share and enjoy.

Neat! It links to an article about unemployed web developers.

So did the Cellar move from Philly to Montenegro?

Oh look it works.

How is this different than just putting the link into the words by highlighting and using the little eyecon (that was a typo but too funny to change) of the worldy looking thing and eyeglasses?

If you hover over the linked text with your cursor, you can see in the corner of the browser what the link is pointing to. With this new tool, it won't show you what the tiny url is pointing at. In other words, it's easier to rickroll someone with this new tool.

Bonus

Indeed it is.

Hooray for the Undertoad it works, dude your awesome!

Thanks for the explanation. :)


It DOES work!

This: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...y+of+z&x=0&y=0

becomes this: http://cllr.me/mY4

It only took half an hour for UT's cool invention to be exploited as a Rickroll generator... Keep up the good work, Cellar.

More obfuscation is not an improvement. Undetectable rickrolls are the least of my complaints, though annoying enough. I like to see where I'm going. Hyperlinks could always have been made as short as desired. I don't see the advantage here.

So don't click on them. Who cares?

I love the FAQs. Now go BAQ.

http://cllr.me/q5F

This is awesome!