DConf 2013 Day 1 Talk 4: Writing Testable Code in D by Ben Gertzfield

[Walter Bright]

On 5/15/2013 1:08 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> The problem with short URLs is that they're completely opaque: you have
> no idea where they go. Ex: I didn't know if it was for the reddit,
> youtube, or the DConf page. Besides, hyperlinking and copy/paste tend to
> obviate any benefit of shortened URLs. "goo.gl" and such are extremely
> useful if you're giving someone a URL over the phone, but aside from
> that, I've never seen much of a point.

Twitter used to pretty much require use of shortened URLs, but they fixed that 
problem, and now I use full length ones on it.