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On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 10:32 PM, Vinicius <me@vmesel.com> wrote:
> Sorry for my bad English guys.

Your English is fine. Don't stress about it. :)

>> Em 15 de mar de 2016, =C3=A0s 9:34 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>=
 escreveu:
>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 11:31 AM, Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> wrote=
:
>>>
>>>> I often like to make a small
>>>> change when I reimplement, though - something that I thought was
>>>> ill-designed in the original,
>>>
>>>
>>> OK, so maybe the idea for Vinicius (if he's still reading) to pursue is=
 that
>>> it should be something that can be used as the basis for a URL shorteni=
ng
>>> "service" that is distributed and can NOT go away (think DNS). That is =
what
>>> some people don't like about the URL shorteners, so maybe that's an itc=
h
>>> that he might want to scratch.
>
> So I really don't see what you were trying to say with this paragraph, th=
e part of "that is distributed and can NOT go away". You think that the pro=
ject could be distributed with a range of people and get them all syncroniz=
ed?
>

The problems with URL shorteners are:

1) They are centralized, and thus vulnerable to outages

2) They might be taken down completely, particularly if they're losing
money for someone

So you would need to come up with a system that's distributed (such
that one computer's inaccessibility doesn't bring everything down) and
permanent (keep on circulating that information!). It could be a
rather fun problem to tackle.

ChrisA