Reducing the Unique Identifier
So up until now every ThnLnk had a unique identifier tagged onto the end of the URL so that ThnLnks don’t get “clobbered.” But I came to and remembered that they need to semantically useful–which also means that you should be able to read a ThnLnk to someone else.
If you mix upper- and lower-case letters and numbers, it’s hard to read the URL to another person. So now, I’m going to reduce all the unique tags to *just numbers*. I think that makes me comfortable enough that ThnLnks won’t get clobbered at the creation. I’m skating close to the line here, but we have to make human decisions in a non-perfect world.
It’s not perfect–and I have to keep on working on this, but:
http://thnlnk.com/yahoo/Bulldog.Beagle.Training.Question/392
Will read: “thinlink dot com - no i’s - slash yahoo slash Bulldog dot Beagle dot Training dot Question - slash 3 - 9 - 2.”
(Also note that the words, e.g., “bulldog,” don’t need to be capitalized. Lowercase is OK.)