I'd like to believe that the diversity, equity, and inclusion of Scheme, Pascal, and C stdlib naming conventions here is intentional.
Traditional link shorteners only meet one of those requirements. Random strings aren't going to be remembered and the chances that they'll be mistyped is substantially higher.
Functions exactly like tinyurl, generally used by public officers for the various programmes/initiatives from the ministries and agencies.
Even ignoring the political misinformation that is rampant on these platforms and often promoted widely by the platform because it is inflammatory and gets lots of engagement, they also severely punish posts that link away from the site, which public safety and government accounts obviously need to do. It's a hazard for public safety info to be targeted primarily at a feed designed to bury it. Even if you're following those accounts on Xitter or facebook, they're effectively never going to show you their posts.
hopefully this stuff gets pushed out via email too? not enough open protocols to receive pushes from otherwise
not sure why they have never done that before
big tech has long canceled url on phones.
Cool uris don't change[1]. Short, readable uris are great but they should be merely redirecs, and the mapping should be version controlled and exposed to the public as an immutable history.
A municipal website should be useful to the citizens who want to use it. This is a great example of doing something useful with the web.
If you live in NYC and are anywhere on social media, you’ll likely have seen Zohran's videos.
Oftentimes, his videos announce a new project or initiative or event.
If the announcement is something that you can actively participate in, the videos also always end with a short, top-level link: nyc.gov/{initiative}.
nyc.gov/
I love that. I think it:
nyc.gov is where I can expect to interact with city government online.