Why are long URLs not shortened in 4.x ?

[ABGenc]

Hi, 

I have searched for a topic but could not find so let me ask here.  I have received criticism for the long urls not being shortened as it was in 3.4.8. Is this feature removed ?

[ABGenc]

Anyone have any idea about this subject ?

[Martin1980]

Could you post an example please? 

[Nathan Explosion]

3 minutes ago, Martin1980 said:

Could you post an example please? 

On 3.4.8 - when you paste a long URL and submit....the long URL is shortened:

Here is the result using the same URL on here (auto parsed to a link, not pressed return so as to avoid auto-embedding)

https://community.invisionpower.com/topic/422797-why-are-long-urls-not-shortened-in-4x/#comment-2596079

 

[chilihead]

Yes, external links as well.

[Nathan Explosion]

Just now, chilihead said:

Yes, external links as well.

Of course - a long url is a long url is a long url. My example took the first long URL I could find.

[chilihead]

Just just stating it happens with external as well, as the reasoning for internal may have to do with embed ability. But then again probably not as that is just how it is displayed.  

The truncating would be nice again.

[Nathan Explosion]

15 minutes ago, chilihead said:

Just just stating it happens with external as well, as the reasoning for internal may have to do with embed ability. But then again probably not as that is just how it is displayed.  

The reasoning might be simply that it hasn't been thought of within the functionality of their auto-linking plugin (ipsautolink) - shouldn't be a difficult change at all, simply detect how long the url is and then display a shortened version when creating the link.

 

[ABGenc]

6 hours ago, Nathan Explosion said:

On 3.4.8 - when you paste a long URL and submit....the long URL is shortened:

Here is the result using the same URL on here (auto parsed to a link, not pressed return so as to avoid auto-embedding)

https://community.invisionpower.com/topic/422797-why-are-long-urls-not-shortened-in-4x/#comment-2596079

 

Exactly that is what I was talking about ;

Here is an example

http://www.hepsiburada.com/superhelp-lastik-tamir-edici-sisirici-sprey-lastik-tamirine-son-300-ml-made-in-italy-041300-p-OTEV041300?productId=otev041300&categoryId=262977&SKU=OTEV041300&navq=categoryid%3D253574%26pqp%3Dsureliindirimdekiler%26fh_sort_by%3D-ranking_cocktail_bestseller_2%252c%252bmin_sale_end_pl%26pqpQueryAdded%3D1%26fh_secondid%3Dotev041300%26fh_lister_pos%3D4%26fh_location%3D%252f%252fcatalog01%252ftr_TR%252finstock%253d%257b1%257d%252fv_sale_end%253e2013041100%252fcategories%253c%257bcatalog01_60002705%257d%252fcategories%253c%257bcatalog01_60002705_2147483631%257d%252fcategories%253c%257bcatalog01_60002705_2147483631_253574%257d%26fh_eds%3D%25c3%259f%26fh_refview%3Dlister

[VizionDev]

This would be niceeeeeeee +1

[Tracy Perry]

Oh, I can think of a better way of doing it.. but then if I mentioned it I'd get slammed because it's the way "the competitors" do it- what they refer to as Link Title Conversion.

 

[Makoto]

1 hour ago, Tracy Perry said:

Oh, I can think of a better way of doing it.. but then if I mentioned it I'd get slammed because it's the way "the competitors" do it- what they refer to as Link Title Conversion.

With IPS4's new editor, this actually isn't a bad idea. It could certainly work.

I think this is something I am going to look into implementing myself.