pad.lv: short Launchpad URLs
Short story: http://pad.lv/12345 takes you to bug 12345, and pad.lv describes more abbreviations.
Sometimes you’d like to point people to an interesting bug in a project that uses Launchpad, like bug 685380 (that ‘1’ and ‘l’ may need to be more distinct in the new Ubuntu Font).
Typing out https://launchpad.net/bugs/685380 is a bit tedious, and it uses up a fair bit of space in a microblog entry. You can use any of innumerable URL-shortening services, but then the URL’s opaque; which is a shame since it really just wants to represent a 6-digit number.
Therefore: pad.lv (pad love), transparent short URLs for bugs, and other things including projects, people, bug-filing forms, packages, and more.
Maybe someone would like to make bookmarklets that generate these links, or add them into the Launchpad UI?
Thanks to Latvia for letting us use a fraction of their domain name space!
Tags: bugs, front-page, pad.lv, PPA, tip
March 18th, 2011 at 2:23 pm
So awesome I love it
March 18th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
This totally, totally, totally rocks!!!
March 19th, 2011 at 5:33 am
I think you should include in the website the short URL automatically, as WordPress does above posts. Nice idea!
March 21st, 2011 at 3:43 am
@Fitoschido, I agree.
March 22nd, 2011 at 5:37 am
When it is going to be public?
March 19th, 2014 at 6:51 pm
After I originally commented I appear to have clicked the -Notify me when new
comments are added- checkbox and from now on whenever a comment is added I recieve four emails with the exact same comment.
Perhaps there is a means you can remove me from that service?
Appreciate it!