Shortening links

[RodrigoHSS]

I open a support ticket to ask if there's a way to short long urls automatically, the support team answered they used to do it in the past but it's not clear to me why they removed that, since I am a new client. Does anyone know a way I can limit the size of any url so it works when clicked but it displays something like "..." after a number of characters?

[bfarber]

Can you clarify what you mean? How would a long URL show "..." after it is clicked? Do you mean like instead of

https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/457455-shortening-links/

(which is this topic's URL) if this were too long it would show in the address bar

https://invisioncommunity.com/forums/topic/457455-shorte...links/

 

[Nathan Explosion]

What he's probably referring to is the way IPB 3.x and lower used to work

Entering this:

https://longurlmaker.com/go?id=1z8ji541ShortlinksfarZoff210renlargedShortlinks73UrlTearangyIsZgdd91010stretchURLZcoZuk3lankyURLCutter6b04stretchqTinyLink2c1bf105URLPie6highFwdURL690yFhURLetsSimURL18d03ycontinuedzlofty5TinyURLprolonged570RedirxremoteprolongedURLcutv200f1udistantloftyIsZgdURLvi1stretched0expandedwShortenURL401Ne1continuedxexpandedd3671NotLong5ShrinkURLdistant0693zURLPieDwarfurlMinilienSmallrlyc0spunZout6NotLongWapURLgangling54spunZoutBeamZtostringy110cNe1stringy0110YATUCURLPie5aURLCutterURLcuth1DigBig0deep8stringy9Sitelutionsqtowering5SnipURLEasyURL610URLcut538URLPie9Shortlinks0TinyURLprolongedexpanded9frunningShredURLr100Ne1y0960CanURL3continued85BeamZtor172NutshellURL08elongatestretchingstretchShorl6stretching10slastingco71YATUCextensive0aqzShrinkURL1lanky7spreadZoutlingeringYepItDwarfurl1ShortURLstringy408denlargedistretchingdistantrunning1815cf3spunZoutB65astretching10highelongatedi4m0NanoRef2c98NotLong1166i8lanky21a1ShortenURLShortenURLh001delongated512ganglingcontinuedSmallrdcontinuedTinyURLlengthyspunZout1YepItShrtnd00lengthy47Dwarfurla884protracted9deepShrtndlspunZout9m11EzURLURLcut719Shim11lengthy1LiteURLelengthyNotLongSnipURLtastretchingloftyTightURL0outstretched353towering6FhURLe61URlZie6URL2c71u2StartURLi9stretched9DoioplongishShrtndgextensive00100ShortURL2URLPiestretchedelongated1lengthenedstretching35w470URlZierangyNotLong300sustained0161b0zFly21g3highsg131xU763rangy01612a015EasyURLc7m686faraway5tTinyURLstretch60extensivey60ilingering0xextensive201high32elongatedstretchedShortURLprolongedShortlinks3ebXZsesustained96tallf80eB65DigBigURLHawkDoiopFwdURL81IsZgdfarZoffURLHawk26610SHurlrunning11towering0TinyLink1EzURL01farZoffdsustainedu6towering5o7stretchFly28DigBigelongaterunning3stretchedYepIt6SimURL61URLcut0mr10FwdURLwcgMooURLaCanURLy0qwc808buYATUCsustainedCanURLrunningShortURL111LiteURL7IsZgd7cURLviB65spreadZoutstretchcontinued1o8URLHawkShortURLl3t5vlengthy00908elongateURlZie0905URlZieexpanded17URLZcoZuk82407StartURL02U76stretched7lRedirx3osRubyURLkcontinued080rDoiopwURLZcoZukn05bEasyURL301URLXil45d6Shorle618169331ln

Used to create something like this:

https://longurlmake.com/go?id=1z8ji541ShortlinksfarZo...31ln

And not this:

https://longurlmaker.com/go?id=1z8ji541ShortlinksfarZoff210renlargedShortlinks73UrlTearangyIsZgdd91010stretchURLZcoZuk3lankyURLCutter6b04stretchqTinyLink2c1bf105URLPie6highFwdURL690yFhURLetsSimURL18d03ycontinuedzlofty5TinyURLprolonged570RedirxremoteprolongedURLcutv200f1udistantloftyIsZgdURLvi1stretched0expandedwShortenURL401Ne1continuedxexpandedd3671NotLong5ShrinkURLdistant0693zURLPieDwarfurlMinilienSmallrlyc0spunZout6NotLongWapURLgangling54spunZoutBeamZtostringy110cNe1stringy0110YATUCURLPie5aURLCutterURLcuth1DigBig0deep8stringy9Sitelutionsqtowering5SnipURLEasyURL610URLcut538URLPie9Shortlinks0TinyURLprolongedexpanded9frunningShredURLr100Ne1y0960CanURL3continued85BeamZtor172NutshellURL08elongatestretchingstretchShorl6stretching10slastingco71YATUCextensive0aqzShrinkURL1lanky7spreadZoutlingeringYepItDwarfurl1ShortURLstringy408denlargedistretchingdistantrunning1815cf3spunZoutB65astretching10highelongatedi4m0NanoRef2c98NotLong1166i8lanky21a1ShortenURLShortenURLh001delongated512ganglingcontinuedSmallrdcontinuedTinyURLlengthyspunZout1YepItShrtnd00lengthy47Dwarfurla884protracted9deepShrtndlspunZout9m11EzURLURLcut719Shim11lengthy1LiteURLelengthyNotLongSnipURLtastretchingloftyTightURL0outstretched353towering6FhURLe61URlZie6URL2c71u2StartURLi9stretched9DoioplongishShrtndgextensive00100ShortURL2URLPiestretchedelongated1lengthenedstretching35w470URlZierangyNotLong300sustained0161b0zFly21g3highsg131xU763rangy01612a015EasyURLc7m686faraway5tTinyURLstretch60extensivey60ilingering0xextensive201high32elongatedstretchedShortURLprolongedShortlinks3ebXZsesustained96tallf80eB65DigBigURLHawkDoiopFwdURL81IsZgdfarZoffURLHawk26610SHurlrunning11towering0TinyLink1EzURL01farZoffdsustainedu6towering5o7stretchFly28DigBigelongaterunning3stretchedYepIt6SimURL61URLcut0mr10FwdURLwcgMooURLaCanURLy0qwc808buYATUCsustainedCanURLrunningShortURL111LiteURL7IsZgd7cURLviB65spreadZoutstretchcontinued1o8URLHawkShortURLl3t5vlengthy00908elongateURlZie0905URlZieexpanded17URLZcoZuk82407StartURL02U76stretched7lRedirx3osRubyURLkcontinued080rDoiopwURLZcoZukn05bEasyURL301URLXil45d6Shorle618169331ln

Basically, the equivalent of someone manually doing this:

Edited July 6, 2020 by Nathan Explosion

[Adriano Faria]

The whole IP.Board 3 had this.