The discussion is about implementing a plugin for bitly style short-links for forum topics. Jerre suggested using the bitly API for its branded domains and widespread use. Frank mentioned a previous consideration of using goo.gl for link shortening and shared a related discussion. Jerre acknowledged missing this topic in their initial search and thanked Frank for sharing the link.
I would love to see a plugin to automatically generate bitly style short-links for forum topics. Using the bitly API would be great, since it allows for branded domains and it’s widely used.
I read this topic: https://meta.discourse.org/t/shorten-share-links/12558 but it seems like it’s only related to the goo.gl service rather than Bitly, and it’s not a plugin but an extension of the core.
There was talk of using https://goo.gl/ for shortening links.
Here is some discussion about link shortening.
I don’t see that example anywhere here…And I don’t see an option for that in my Discourse admin (I am looking under settings/posting). I wonder if it got yanked for some reason.
Ah, I did look around before posting but must have done a poor query, wasn’t able to find that topic. Thanks for linking it! 