Whenever I post a link, it gets the middle hidden. eg.: http://udn.epicgames.com/Three/ReplicationHome.html
What purpose does this serve, other than to obscure the content of the link?
Is it to prevent some sort of SEO spam? If so, we have moderators and other tools for that.
As far as I know, it's because some URLs become really long (especially any URLs that are generated on the fly by the site and/or have query terms in them) and shortening the URL is a way to prevent those URLs from taking up lots of space, especially as it can look ugly around the surrounding text. Most forums these days do this.
Cutting the middle is probably going by the assumption that with the beginning and the ending you can sorta figure out where it points to most of the time.
+1 for turning off URL shortening. We can always use tinyurl to accomplish the same, when we actually need it.
This wasn't anything like tinyURL, it's just for the visual display of the URL.
Aye, but we can use tinyurl for shortening the visual display, too ;)
This wasn't anything like tinyURL, it's just for the visual display of the URL.
Aye, but we can use tinyurl for shortening the visual display, too ;)
But then that completely destroys the visual look of the URL anyway.. wasn't the point to just see the full url in an unadulterated format?
wasn't the point to just see the full url in an unadulterated format?
The point is to be able to selectively see it in unadulterated format.
wasn't the point to just see the full url in an unadulterated format?
The point is to be able to selectively see it in unadulterated format.
=P Damn
