Changes between Version 5 and Version 6 of NewCapDesign

Timestamp:

2009-08-24T16:17:16Z (15 years ago)

Author:

zooko

Comment:

add short-and-sweet as a separate desideratum from cut-and-pasteable

NewCapDesign

@@ -46 +46 @@
 == other features ==
 
+ * Short and not so ugly. This is important to enable cut-and-paste (see 
+   below), but also just because people are suspicious and averse to long
+   and ugly URLs.  See #217 for notes in which dozens of people have 
+   spontaneously complained about the current URLs.  By contrast, tiny
+   URLs such as tinyurl.com, bit.ly, etc. are ubiquitous nowadays; users
+   have no problem with those -- see Twitter.
  * Enable convenient cut-and-paste. If caps are too long they'll wrap in
    email. If they contain lots of word-breaking characters then you have to