On: Show HN: I made an open-source Bitly alternative

[gnicholas]

I tried using a bitly alternative but found that when I sent them to users via email the links were flagged by gmail as being dangerous. There were no problems when I sent bitly links, or the plain links.

I'm hesitant to try another alternative because I wouldn't want to get set up in a new system, only to have these problems crop up again.

[steventey → gnicholas]

Very good point, I'm going to try and add some abuse prevention measures to make sure the domain doesn't get blacklisted!

In the meantime, you can also use your own custom domain for maximum control: https://twitter.com/steventey/status/1572958205814214657

[stjohnswarts → gnicholas]

I assume thats because bitly has excellent blocking for known malware sites and techniques (rate limiting/etc) since they've been around for so long.