[HN Gopher] Poop.is - A Crappy Link Shortener
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       Poop.is - A Crappy Link Shortener
        
       Author : j3s
       Score  : 42 points
       Date   : 2022-03-27 17:21 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (poop.is)
 (TXT) w3m dump (poop.is)
        
       | gknoy wrote:
       | I'm sorry to report that it gives a new shortening each time you
       | submit the new address, and now I'm not sure if my kid caused you
       | to have 30 extra records for the same address. All the same,
       | thank you for this, it's awesome and made my morning. :)
        
         | j3s wrote:
         | Bahaha, I'm glad you and your kid had some fun with it :D
        
       | hiwaylon wrote:
       | https://poop.is/shimmering news.ycombinator.com
        
       | lopatin wrote:
       | Fun stuff, but my shortened link didn't work. Maybe system is
       | under load.
       | 
       | Here's another gem by the author: https://existentialcrisis.sh
        
         | j3s wrote:
         | The load issue should be fixed lolz. for now.
         | https://git.j3s.sh/poop.is/commit/372cf8c99e4b093d678b090c3b...
        
           | spicybright wrote:
           | You should have it randomly drop requests every so often lol
        
       | jaytaylor wrote:
       | The author's website is refreshing in the current age of blogspam
       | SEO optimization. Worth a glance and they sound friendly! Even
       | though there is the suspiciously consistent scatalogical theme..
       | 
       | https://j3s.sh/
        
         | j3s wrote:
         | > The author's website is refreshing in the current age of
         | blogspam SEO optimization. Worth a glance and they sound
         | friendly!
         | 
         | wow thank you! this means a lot - i spend a lot of time making
         | my website(s) small and unique. i appreciate you noticing this.
         | 
         | > Even though there is the suspiciously consistent scatalogical
         | theme
         | 
         | tth_tth
        
         | [deleted]
        
       | dragonshed wrote:
       | I shortened its own url and it yielded
       | "https://poop.is/remorseful".
       | 
       | A+
        
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       | tomcat27 wrote:
       | https://poop.is/composed Google.com
        
       | j3s wrote:
       | Hey all - author here. This amazing feat of engineering uses a
       | hardcoded list of adjectives, and apparently pegs at 100% when
       | the full list is consumed. Here's the sauce:
       | https://git.j3s.sh/poop.is/tree/master/main.go
       | 
       | I've restarted it and I'm working on making it more resilient,
       | lol. I didn't expect so many hits.
       | 
       | Truly the crappiest link shortener.
        
       | malkia wrote:
       | Heh, but it needs explicit http:// or https:// in front :)
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | This can be used to store data. Someone should build a filesystem
       | that runs on top of it.
        
       | edmcnulty101 wrote:
       | it just redirects back to the main page?
        
         | j3s wrote:
         | The generated poop.is link should redirect back to whatever
         | link you entered. I just deployed some changes and you may have
         | been caught in the middle of them - feel free to try again if
         | you'd like.
        
           | edmcnulty101 wrote:
           | I'm having issues. When I click on any link in these comments
           | or copy and paste any that I creat, it just sends me to the
           | main poop.is page.
        
       | riidom wrote:
       | Also mentioned on HN quite a while ago: http://shadyurl.com
        
       | pkulak wrote:
       | Is it crappy because it doesn't do anything?
        
         | j3s wrote:
         | I just "fixed" an adjective list bug - sorry about that! it
         | should work now.
        
       | vpbusvltsmtk wrote:
       | I like this
        
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