GitHub - SinTan1729/chhoto-url: A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust
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A simple, blazingly fast, selfhosted URL shortener with no unnecessary features; written in Rust - SinTan1729/chhoto-url

cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/58898830

There has been some QoL improvements added recently. Notable ones are:

  1. Support for OIDC login
  2. Batched inserts
  3. Temporary link disabling
  4. Faster reply and redirection due to async handling of some less-important tasks

There have also been small changes to the backend and UI that improve the user experience overall.

If you’re looking for a selfhosted URL shortener, please check it out.

Extra links: Codeberg, Official website

  • bananabread@lemmy.zipEnglish
    44·
    8 hours ago

    URL shortering is a security risk imo. I want to see where I’m going before I click.

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      3·
      4 hours ago

      It’s about trusting the source/sharer.

      My friends and family trust me, so trust links I send.

      And people currently use public link shortened, this is at least an order of magnitude (or more) better than sharing our data with those people.

    • SinTan1729@programming.devOPEnglish
      6·
      8 hours ago

      While I agree on principle, we’re not always using big-name websites. The argument falls short for some-local-blog.com, there’s no security improvement on clicking that link as opposed to shortener.tld/blog-link. I’d say we should trust the source of the link instead of the link itself. Link shortening can be useful if you want long links to look nice when sharing, or simply for personal use so that you don’t need to remember long links to access an internal resource. Or just for personal websites. I can link my CV at https://domain.tld/cv instead of the full PDF file path, for example.