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            swodinsky nicholasadeleon ShortFormErnie This is! Fascinating and almost making me regret quitting Facebook and not seeing the Newsletter Nerds thread.
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          swodinsky nicholasadeleon ShortFormErnie Wait... Why are Substack links so long? That's really interesting to me. It means they're likely doing more than the normal click tracking if they need to encode that much data, or they have a lot more users than I'd assume, or they have a code problem.
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        swodinsky nicholasadeleon ShortFormErnie Assuming it isn't a programming fkup, that much text in a forwarding link is a wild amount of data and I can't imagine why they'd need that much in their current feature set? Especially considering individual users can't do a/b testing as far as I know. What is it all for?
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      swodinsky nicholasadeleon ShortFormErnie That it's impacted by the length of the link is also wild, because it implies they are directly encoding links instead of storing them. Mby it is cheaper not to run a db, but does imply the additional bits are directly attached link decoration for Substack's intervening systems.
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    swodinsky nicholasadeleon ShortFormErnie But I can see in-email link click counts... so they'd have to dump it into a DB in some form anyway.... I dunno?! This is interesting because that is a very long link and the first thing I'd think when I see it is why is it long and not short when it could very easily be short?
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      swodinsky nicholasadeleon ShortFormErnie I'd especially be worried wearing my developer hat because there is a max length to URLs that browsers will cut off at... what happens if the underlying link is already a really long or heavily decorated one?!
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        swodinsky nicholasadeleon ShortFormErnie I'd bet there is a *really* interesting story about systems and database architecture somewhere in this that I would love to read a white paper on but will likely never see the light of day.
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