Adding our own url shortening service!

[Spyro]

I would like to be able to add my own shortening service, I use bit.ly and I have a branded url shortener. Is that a feature that could see anytime soon?


That way we have also the benefits of monitoring our shortened urls



Please Ning give me a reply!

Thanks

[Patrick Chappelle]

You could use the Firefox add-on. No?

[Digital Janitor]

This is kinda cool Thunder X. Wouldn't that require all the members to have that as well if the point of Short URLs is to have a shorter link for users to use?

This may sound like a dumb question but I am not being a smart... you know.

[Patrick Chappelle]

LOL No, you're right. I assumed everyone uses FF, which is ironic since I am using Chrome right now. But I think all of the major browsers have a url shortener add-on. Chrome does.

[Digital Janitor]

LMBO!

Now that is a move I would make!

As a technologist, I don't install additional plug-in on my browsers, other than Flash of course, so I would never be able to utilize the advantage of Tiny URLs with this solution. That also would not bother me as a member either so it's kind of a six of one, half a dozen of another type of thing I think. Either way just something to think about in the implementation of browser plug-ins.

[Patrick Chappelle]

Understood. I'm a plug-in maniac myself. Sometimes I have to remind myself to uninstall plug-ins and add-ons I've installed only to see what they do and how they work. Heh.

[Digital Janitor]

That just gives me chills to think about. lol

[Patrick Chappelle]

LOL

[Evan]

Hey Spyro!

We're actually using bit.ly Pro now as well, and this is a feature we'd like to offer down the road. Probably when we get to making another round of improvements to the Status feature.

/Evan
Ning Product Manager

[Digital Janitor]

Great to know Evan, Thanks.

By the way I did respond to your response on my help ticket and would be more than happy to take care of your request for you when you have the time to respond. I know your slammed!

Thanks again!

[Spyro]

this is good to know... i know you're probably very busy guys, but giving some flexibility to your platform would make it very powerful. now it is so fixed and you can't go far with imagination.

I really wanna use my own branded shortener, bring it on!!

cheers

[Spyro]

well, everyone else does it, i dont see why Ning wouldn't. If i can use my own bit.ly account, then I can use my branded url shortener that i have with bit.ly !

[Evan]

Hey Caroline,

In fact, that's exactly what I meant :)

We'd love to bring branded URL shorteners, it's just not on the roadmap quite yet.

/Evan
Ning Product Manager