How should short links be supported in Discourse

What problem is being solved here? Insufficiently cute links? I mean, I agree with you that

talk.extremely-long-domain-name.online/t/slug/1234

is generally inferior to

talk.web.it/t/slug/1234

… but the solution to that is to prefer a shorter (within reason, and finances of course) domain name?

Plus, you can already “shorten” any Discourse link (to a topic) by doing

https://meta.discourse.org/t/-/15339

versus

https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-short-links-be-supported-in-discourse/15339

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