I was thinking today how I was going to make a sweet URL shortener module (can anyone beat me to this?) and I went hunting through the forums first for “URL shortener”. I found this older thread entitled “Your own URL shortener” that sums up the only two that I’d ever heard of: Sidepath and Shorty. I’ve been using Shorty for a little while and it seems OK, but I’d never tried Sidepath because it cost $10+.
Just wanted to let people know that as it states on the Sidepath site: as of Feb 21 2008, you can download Sidepath for free. This is pretty recent news I thought some people here might be interested in.
Having cracked this script open, I can tell you that I probably won’t be making a EE URL shortener module anytime soon :sick: - although I’d be happy to offer suggestions and beta test if anyone smarter than I decides to create something like that. I can picture the settings page now…