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		beauHD on Sept 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative There's a project[0] designed to archive various URL shorteners to combat the link-rot problem. It's ran by ArchiveTeam which is a bunch of preservationists who are hell-bent on preserving parts of the web that otherwise would go into the dustbin of history. [0] https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=URLTeam [0] https://tracker.archiveteam.org:1338/status

carvking on Sept 22, 2022 | [–]

Maybe these fine people should run a url shortener service.

bjord on Sept 22, 2022 | [–]

yeah, this is cool, but in the future, wouldn't it be better to just skip the link shorteners?

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