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I just get a page with the URL shown.


your first clue


OK so you keep following the links (by copying and pasting into your address bar) and after about four links it says "oh hi ".

Explain yourself! How did you do this?!

Impressive!


Simple!

0. Write oh hi :D, get link0

1. Paste link0, get link1

2. Paste link1, get link2 ...

Encoding goes E(T), E(E(T)), etc. let K be the per-char encoding overhead, so E(T) = KT: complexity is O(K^N * T) where N is number of levels and T is length of text at level 0!


D'oh! You're right! That IS simple!


It seems that due to the extra text from https://itty.bitty.site each iteration increases the size of the next link. I wonder how the urls are generated and if this is a linear or exponential increase.


My guess is 1st-degree polynomial. There’s a constant addition with each iteration, plus the contents appear to be base64(ish)-encoded into the next URL, which multiplies the length by a constant.


It's original_size * growth_factor ^ iterations

I would say it's exponential in iterations. Growth factor is probably <2


Hi to you too :-)


Very clever implementation of this technique


oh hi

(I will say I'm disappointed that it wasn't a technique to make circular URLs.)


That's what it started out as, I was going to look at making a quine but then quickly gave up as I am tired


I think a quine would be impossible since there's no possibility of indirection or data compression.


hoi m8 nicely done o7




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