# Discourse Shortlink Router | Simplify support URLs **URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-shortlink-router-simplify-support-urls/401542 **Category:** Extras **Created:** [April 26, 2026, 2:54am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-shortlink-router-simplify-support-urls/401542 "2026-04-26T02:54:10Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 3
### Author: ![darkpixlz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/darkpixlz/32/549896_2.png) [@darkpixlz](https://meta.discourse.org/u/darkpixlz) #### Post date: [April 26, 2026, 5:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-shortlink-router-simplify-support-urls/401542/3 "2026-04-26T05:40:02Z")
For the sake of transparency, here are the server logs when I tested locally: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/8/f/3/8f31f1db36d37db59627db2fe2ab673f59e8dc0b.png) I did leave in a development log accidentally; however, it has been disabled in production as of [this commit](https://github.com/pyxfluff/discourse-router/commit/060493b8aba6c3d12ab6ee731ed943ca39ff0887). There is not a whole lot I can do about Uvicorn logging endpoint hits (and I’m not sure that’s something I want anyway for security purposes), but my goal is not to log endpoint URLs because I do believe in privacy. Regardless, server logs are in a systemd unit that I have no intention of pulling unless strictly necessary to track down an error or something. The website is also hooked up to my own [PA instance](https://analytics.pyxfluff.dev), so I can tell how many people use it without invasive analytics. The bottom line here is that I don’t track your IP address, site URL, or basically anything. All I can see is that _somebody_ visited the site and was redirected. Feel free to let me know if you have any concerns, but the entire “uvicorn logging redirect requests” thing is just a design flaw with how I decided to build the app (via cookies & jinja2). Obviously if you don’t trust me for whatever reason you can just host it yourself (I will make a guide tomorrow) but you can audit the code yourself, the container runs mirrored to GitHub. 🙂 --- _[View the full topic](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-shortlink-router-simplify-support-urls/401542)._