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Post #774589

Author
CatBus
Parent topic
Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles)
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Date created
5-Jun-2015, 4:20 PM

Mine's pronounceable, it's just Welsh.  No, seriously, it's all good.  Honestly the concept of having an official shortened URL is probably a little wrong, since people are quite likely used to handling their own shortening and would never think there's one already set up to use.

The need for it came not from Twitter (where I assume it's way more useful), but from the NFO file.  Some NFO readers add clickable hyperlinks to URLs, and the way I'd broken up the long URL in the existing NFO file meant it didn't work in those readers.  Using a shortened URL, it works without making the NFO file 100 columns wide.  And for all three people who use an NFO reader instead of a text editor so they can see the not-actually-very-fancy graphics in the Project Threepio file, well, probably only one of them uses one that does clickable hyperlinks.  So Bob, if you're reading this, I did this for you.