🚀 Feature: Truncate Long Share Links

[fmunim]

🔖 Feature description

Truncate the shares for Directly sharing and the share page to a shorter url

🎤 Pitch

Currently the direct share link and regular share link:

Direct Share: https://domain/api/shares/Q5MTUyN/files/4ecb4db0-2993-481a-84ab-5932d99a8151?download=false
Regular Share: https://domain/s/Q5MTUyN

Is too long!

It should be just:

Direct Share: https://domin/D-XXRandomStringXX
Regular Share: https://domain/XXRandomStringXX

[fmunim]

@stonith404 Any update on this or any comments?

[stonith404]

Yeah file links are definitely too long. Nevertheless this isn't really something that I want to prioritize as it's not really intended to share file links directly. Additionally, implementing this this would require significant effort as it would involve revising the database structure. As a workaround, you could use a self-hosted URL shortener like Shlink.

But I'm open if someone wants to contribute to this feature :)

Regarding share links, what would you suggest to make it shorter? The /s/ can't really be omitted as the share id could then collide with website paths. For example, if you create a share with the id upload, it won't be accessible as http://domain/upload is already a page. Or do you have another suggestion?

[fmunim]

Yeah file links are definitely too long. Nevertheless this isn't really something that I want to prioritize as it's not really intended to share file links directly. Additionally, implementing this this would require significant effort as it would involve revising the database structure. As a workaround, you could use a self-hosted URL shortener like Shlink.

But I'm open if someone wants to contribute to this feature :)

Regarding share links, what would you suggest to make it shorter? The /s/ can't really be omitted as the share id could then collide with website paths. For example, if you create a share with the id upload, it won't be accessible as http://domain/upload is already a page. Or do you have another suggestion?

Funnily I already use shrink because the direct URL is too long >.<, but I understand.

For short share links---isn't share ids just random characters? maybe you can enforce that to deter collision?