• Noxy@yiffit.net
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    29 days ago

    Why is that ideal? Seems more prone to problems if the short URL service shuts down or suffers outages.

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      29 days ago

      You don’t have to use a third-party short URL service. It can be hosted on your own site.

      A lot of people are already using a third-party short URL service like qrco.de because they don’t realise you don’t actually need a service like that to make a QR code.

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        28 days ago

        Regardless, why bother running or using a short URL service? QR codes can easily hold a full URL and more, and QR codes are not (nor are they meant to be) human readable, so what’s the benefit?