URL Shortener

[wei]

The generated image url always contain long query strings. Let's create a url shortener so it's not so long~

[CryogenicPlanet]

We could fork https://github.com/steven-tey/dub and implement a shortener, or just use upstash and middleware like dub and have a custom shortener

[KemingHe]

@wei I'll be happy to (instead of money contribution) self-host an instance of https://shlink.io/ to continue with this idea. Let me know if you are interested. ❤️

[wei]

Let's hold off on this one. I envision this to be implemented as a part of User Dashboard instead of a third party service but open to other ideas.

[KemingHe]

Hi @wei , since we are also considering #472 migration to Cloudflare Pages, and that short-links would require some data storage, here's another idea: use Cloudflare's KV store as a most simple/basic solution now and iterate from there.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/kv/

What do you think?

[wei]

@KemingHe great idea! I have actually already implemented a url shortener for another project using workers KV, it will work great!

[KemingHe]

@KemingHe great idea! I have actually already implemented a url shortener for another project using workers KV, it will work great!

Feel free to assign me with either or both #472 and #146 (this) as I'm also interested in learning from your code and experimenting with Cloudflare more.

[wei]

Consider https://github.com/ccbikai/sink which has an easy Cloudflare deployment option.