On: Itty Bitty: Sites contained within their own links

[saagarjha]

I wonder how large a website using this scheme can practically be to work on most browsers. I know of at least one browser that limited URLs to 100 characters, but it's almost 30 years old…

[lainga → saagarjha]

While most sites/apps support about 2000 bytes (2KB), some can handle more... Twitter and Slack, for example, allow 4000 bytes in a link.

4000 bytes is enough to apparently encode the full text of Poe's The Raven.

https://twitter.com/edgar_the_poe/status/1003524516440563712

[yourad_io → lainga]

The HN frontpage bitty that I posted in another comment is around 8K. [1]

I also did a reddit one that works on my browsers[2] (copy/paste URL into new tab) at 26K (!). Which is apparently too much for HN. (Where's my free 5GB of storage for signing up?!)

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17460932 [2] latest chrome, firefox on ubuntu

[kovek → lainga]

It's now hosted on tinyurl: https://tinyurl.com/yafprdyo