Any chance of a ROBLOX url shortner/redirector?

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#99322677Wednesday, May 29, 2013 11:56 PM GMT

Even an unofficial one that ROBLOX will allow the usage of? I put something really basic together on my site webstudios. webs. com / r. html? a1818 a means asset id f means forum id so a1818 goes to crossroads. Obviously this could be a much shorter link, but Sorcus I know many people would love one.

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#99324078Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:05 AM GMT

Simple to make with javascript

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#99324436Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:07 AM GMT

Yeah, very simple. Since we are no longer allowed to use t.co links.

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#99326906Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:25 AM GMT

Why would you need or want a shortener when you can just post the link directly? _________________________________________________________________________ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkOtaris

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#99327258Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:27 AM GMT

I find often that links are to long, or don't fit nicely in descriptions for groups or items.

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#99329303Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:41 AM GMT

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#99332727Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:05 AM GMT

URL shorteners are only useful in very, very, very limited and rare cases. They're significantly misused and abused. They make it hard to figure out where a URL points, create reliance problems, make getting to pages longer, multiply DNS requests, waste time because you need to create them... and have basically no benefit whatsoever. _________________________________________________________________________ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkOtaris

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#99332847Thursday, May 30, 2013 1:06 AM GMT

As a general rule, the only cases where you should use a URL shortener are cases where you wouldn't think about using one in the first place. So if you're thinking about using an URL shortener, you probably shouldn't. _________________________________________________________________________ Twitter: https://twitter.com/MarkOtaris

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#99353063Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:59 AM GMT

This is smaller: roblox.com/--item?id=98641786 It is a little bit better.

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#99353726Thursday, May 30, 2013 4:07 AM GMT

I was just about to suggest this on S&I. I imagine something like roblox.com/123456 would work nicely, but being a newbie web dev I'm not sure how possible it would be. Especially on a 8(?) year old site.