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       2024-07-20T07:22:55Z
       
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       If you have any goo.gl links on your web content, now would be a good time to expand them before they stop working next year. See https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/19/24201734/google-url-link-shortening-service-shut-down-support, via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41014089I checked my blog and found only one, from a 2014 comment pointing to http://patmorin.tiddlyspace.com/#[[An encoding argument for multiple-choice hashing]] (a site that went defunct in late 2016 and for which that page appears not to have been archived), so that may just be dead unless @patmorin has saved it somewhere else. But at least the expanded url is more informative than the unexpanded one.Let that be a lesson not to use url encoders. They don't save you any characters on Mastodon (all urls count the same), they hide information from readers, and they're more fragile.Among the url expanders I tried in tracing this one, I found https://wheregoes.com to be the most useful, because it showed all the intermediate expansions, not just the final one to the "we're gone!" tiddlyspace page.