Wow -- XR.com has been used and reviewed by John Chow at JohnChow.com. You can see his article at http://xr.com/johnchow
We noticed a spike in traffic and tracked it down to the John Chow posting about our service. Reading the comments was immediately useful and we've already made changes based on the comments there.
Firstly we had to deal with new abuse. We saw that we were getting a lot more links in the "recent links" section on the main page at http://www.xr.com/ and, thanks to John Sullivan we saw some were going to adult pages. So, we pulled down the 'recent links' section.
Next, Mark and Michael both pointed out that xr.com isn't the "shortest" url service. Well, our claim to fame is that we are the shortest .com url service. But that's not really good enough is it? So, to claim the "shortest url service" we have to reveal our secret domain: x.bb We know of no other single character domain that is being used for a URL shortening service. It wasn't easy to get and let's consider this a "soft" launch since it's not hard-coded into the main site yet. But to use it, just replace xr.com with x.bb in the Customize section at http://www.xr.com/
Check it out: www.x.bb/radio
Finally, hats off to Scott Yang for dissing us about not having an API, for having a Frame (hey, we thought that was a plus), and for not having our ducks in a row before John Chow wrote about us. We don't like to disappoint, so we slapped together the instructions on our built, but not released API. The frame can be turned off when you log in to your account, and can also be turned off when you create a link using the API. The command is &direct=yes
See the full API instructions at http://apicode.xr.com/
So, keep the comments coming. Open to all critics, fans and users.
Thx!
XR
PS Since we took down the "recent link" and the "Show All Links" from the main page, the only way to see all the XR links that exist is here. Note that some might be NSFW.
We noticed a spike in traffic and tracked it down to the John Chow posting about our service. Reading the comments was immediately useful and we've already made changes based on the comments there.
Firstly we had to deal with new abuse. We saw that we were getting a lot more links in the "recent links" section on the main page at http://www.xr.com/ and, thanks to John Sullivan we saw some were going to adult pages. So, we pulled down the 'recent links' section.
Next, Mark and Michael both pointed out that xr.com isn't the "shortest" url service. Well, our claim to fame is that we are the shortest .com url service. But that's not really good enough is it? So, to claim the "shortest url service" we have to reveal our secret domain: x.bb We know of no other single character domain that is being used for a URL shortening service. It wasn't easy to get and let's consider this a "soft" launch since it's not hard-coded into the main site yet. But to use it, just replace xr.com with x.bb in the Customize section at http://www.xr.com/
Check it out: www.x.bb/radio
Finally, hats off to Scott Yang for dissing us about not having an API, for having a Frame (hey, we thought that was a plus), and for not having our ducks in a row before John Chow wrote about us. We don't like to disappoint, so we slapped together the instructions on our built, but not released API. The frame can be turned off when you log in to your account, and can also be turned off when you create a link using the API. The command is &direct=yes
See the full API instructions at http://apicode.xr.com/
So, keep the comments coming. Open to all critics, fans and users.
Thx!
XR
PS Since we took down the "recent link" and the "Show All Links" from the main page, the only way to see all the XR links that exist is here. Note that some might be NSFW.
2 comments:
I love that I can name my links. But I have 2 comments.
Regarding links to adults site, I would like if xr has a preview feature, for example is.gd uses hypen at end to let user know what it's linking to.
http://is.gd/8RaR-
The shortened URL you followed points to http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2335163,00.asp.
Also when I click from my email. www.xr.com/manage/ it brings me to an error page stating that "http://xr.com/manage/ is undefined. Please double check."
when I go to xr.com login, it has http://xr.com/manage/index.php and that works fine. Could it be that it's missing index.php?
Thanks.
Thx for the comments. Looking into the manage thing.
On the Preview - we'll roll something out shortly to address this. Stay tuned!
XR
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