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Poop.is – A Crappy Link Shortener (poop.is)
49 points by j3s on March 27, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 25 comments


Hey all - author here. This amazing feat of engineering uses a hardcoded list of adjectives, and apparently pegs at 100% when the full list is consumed. Here's the sauce: https://git.j3s.sh/poop.is/tree/master/main.go

I've restarted it and I'm working on making it more resilient, lol. I didn't expect so many hits.

Truly the crappiest link shortener.


Fun stuff, but my shortened link didn't work. Maybe system is under load.

Here's another gem by the author: https://existentialcrisis.sh


The load issue should be fixed lolz. for now. https://git.j3s.sh/poop.is/commit/372cf8c99e4b093d678b090c3b...


You should have it randomly drop requests every so often lol


I shortened its own url and it yielded “https://poop.is/remorseful”.

A+


The author's website is refreshing in the current age of blogspam SEO optimization. Worth a glance and they sound friendly! Even though there is the suspiciously consistent scatalogical theme..

https://j3s.sh/


> The author's website is refreshing in the current age of blogspam SEO optimization. Worth a glance and they sound friendly!

wow thank you! this means a lot - i spend a lot of time making my website(s) small and unique. i appreciate you noticing this.

> Even though there is the suspiciously consistent scatalogical theme

ಠ_ಠ


Heh, but it needs explicit http:// or https:// in front :)


https://poop.is/shimmering news.ycombinator.com


Also mentioned on HN quite a while ago: http://shadyurl.com


I'm sorry to report that it gives a new shortening each time you submit the new address, and now I'm not sure if my kid caused you to have 30 extra records for the same address. All the same, thank you for this, it's awesome and made my morning. :)


Bahaha, I'm glad you and your kid had some fun with it :D



Somehow, I am amused by the author's liking towards crap!!!

shitchat poop and such crappy things as the names!

Just for fun though!


This can be used to store data. Someone should build a filesystem that runs on top of it.


We love poop.is, so we decided to poop more https://poop.is/meagerly-meager


<3


Is it crappy because it doesn’t do anything?


I just "fixed" an adjective list bug - sorry about that! it should work now.


I like this


it just redirects back to the main page?


The generated poop.is link should redirect back to whatever link you entered. I just deployed some changes and you may have been caught in the middle of them - feel free to try again if you'd like.


I'm having issues. When I click on any link in these comments or copy and paste any that I creat, it just sends me to the main poop.is page.


hm, strange. what link are you entering?


I'm going to guess folk with this issue are leaving off the protocol. Look at the `Location` header you get back if you've asked to shorten example.com (which displays this issue) vs https://example.com (which doesn't).




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