Cl.igs seems like a good service and this is my first time of hearing of it. It's too bad, I feel like using it now. Twitter should let you decide what service to use, just like some Twitter clients let you.
Cam Neil
· 2 months ago
This is the reason I've used nothing but Bit.ly. I trust it to not shut down.
Daniel Fernández
· 2 months ago
Ups.. time to update Textwit
Zigmund
· 2 months ago
I seldom use anything but bit.ly for one simple reason: Twitter will never, ever - let it die.
Sean O
· 2 months ago
Another example of the unreliability of these services; it's easy to setup a URL shortener for your own web site. I recently wrote an article on how to do so here: http://sean-o.com/short-URL
Pierre Far
· 2 months ago
Hi,
I'm the owner of Cligs.
I'd like to emphasize that having bit.ly as the default for Twitter is in no way part of the decision to shut down. As I said in the post, it's a one man operation that has grown too big for me to maintain it.
I've filled in my email in this comment form. Please do email me if you want to talk further.
Thanks, Pierre
Brad F.
· 2 months ago
Popular? I've never seen nor even heard of a cli.gs URL...
Dennis Jernberg
· 2 months ago
cli.gs was always broken for me, so I'm not the least bit surprised...
Marileeh
· 2 months ago
How many more websites are shutting down? I can't wait!
Dudes01
· 2 months ago
Is there a way that others can help? Maybe not alot of help but something. I'm just a user but I would like to help if I can. Let me know if there is any administration or writing that I can do for you to help through this. This is your baby!
We invite all previous Cl.igs lovers to use http://RT.nu for free, for life.
Mohamed Sanaulla
· 2 months ago
How about TinyURL? We are using it in our portal.
Simon
· 2 months ago
Your better off with bit.ly, but out of it's competitors tinyurl is the safest bet.
brianjesse
· 2 months ago
Sean O said "it's easy to setup a URL shortener" but setting up a self-hosted Web app and SQL database is too difficult for most.
There is an alternative: http://rp.ly lets you easily make short URLs on your own domain name: s.yourdomain.com or you.ly -- that way you're not advertising someone else's service, and your shortening-data is exportable as an RSS feed, so you're never again dependent on some service with a shaky business model.
Excellent guide! I wonder, though, why there aren’t handy guides like this for setting up your own short-url service? Surely there’s a self-hosted option that can be installed alongside your CMS?
dangabriel
· 2 months ago
It's sad to see that will close.
Congratulations to the ONE MAN - operation - always there for all of us.
Great service - what can we do to help?
That's the question? Your support it's great - other companies with full support dept should learn from you.
url shortners are a joke to begin with...its a fad..will go by the wayside..as will twitter..facebook and so on...
imagine all the worthless links that are soon to be littering comments and forum posts throughout the net...
lhubblirgurl
· 2 months ago
ambuuuuut sa emu uie.....
Vaibhav Kalamdani
· 2 months ago
I am habituated using tinyurl. I too have come across several people using bit.ly, but still prefer using tinyurl...maybe because I came across it first as a link shortener service. Who else prefers using tinyurl over bit.ly???
grahamt
· 2 months ago
Never heard of Cligs but in any case it won't affect me as I always use TinyURL because of it's brilliant Firefox add-on.
wow, that was fast - seems like it wasn't long ago I was hearing about this 'new' URL shortening service. I think ultimately a lot of shortening sites are going to endure a similar fate for the same reasons. It's just a shame that people have been using shorteners for permanent links, which I've always thought was sort of a bad idea.
maurice
· 2 months ago
URL shortening is totally not monatizable and is no longer an issue when twitter thinks of some mechanism for it. until that time, lets enjoy building services for it! check http://smrls.net/ - a service that lets anyone create their own url shortener within 10 seconds! :)
Erik
· 2 months ago
There's no monetization! Bit.ly will run them all out!
Francisco J Palacio
· 2 months ago
Anyone heard of SNURL's fate?... got my stuff in there... and this would really be a bummer
Peter C. Frank
· 1 month ago
I used cli.gs almost exclusively as my URL-shortening service of choice. The creator/operator/owner has been very responsive to my inquiries, suggestions, comments, and just general comments. I liked the interface and geographical analytics of cligs much better than that of bitly or any of the other major URL-shortening service that offer such features.
I think the major reason that cligs is shutting down is monetization; if cligs were making money, then they would have resources to hire people to do the customer service/development that the sole person who runs cligs doesn't have the time/energy/resources to do anymore.
As a testament to just how well-run an operation cligs is, they're going to be offering an export feature for users to grab all of their data before they shut their doors. This should give users enough time to convert all of their existing clig URLs to another service.
For now, I'm using bitly but I have to re-review the other options that are out there ...
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http://sean-o.com/short-URL
I'm the owner of Cligs.
I'd like to emphasize that having bit.ly as the default for Twitter is in no way part of the decision to shut down. As I said in the post, it's a one man operation that has grown too big for me to maintain it.
I've filled in my email in this comment form. Please do email me if you want to talk further.
Thanks,
Pierre
http://www.seodoom.info/2009/09/what-is-meant-b...
There is an alternative: http://rp.ly lets you easily make short URLs on your own domain name: s.yourdomain.com or you.ly -- that way you're not advertising someone else's service, and your shortening-data is exportable as an RSS feed, so you're never again dependent on some service with a shaky business model.
brian@rp.ly
Congratulations to the ONE MAN - operation - always there for all of us.
Great service - what can we do to help?
That's the question? Your support it's great - other companies with full support dept should learn from you.
Thank you,
Dan Gabriel
www.twitter.com/gdan
imagine all the worthless links that are soon to be littering comments and forum posts throughout the net...
Who else prefers using tinyurl over bit.ly???
I think the major reason that cligs is shutting down is monetization; if cligs were making money, then they would have resources to hire people to do the customer service/development that the sole person who runs cligs doesn't have the time/energy/resources to do anymore.
As a testament to just how well-run an operation cligs is, they're going to be offering an export feature for users to grab all of their data before they shut their doors. This should give users enough time to convert all of their existing clig URLs to another service.
For now, I'm using bitly but I have to re-review the other options that are out there ...