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Logic Testing, new website idea

Oct 15, 2012 5:13PM PDT

I'm looking for advice on a web app I developed. I work helpdesk and am constantly trying to share URLs over the phone. It's tough sometimes.

I decided I would try and simplify this by creating a numerical token site for quick links. My hope is this will simplify communicating URLs verbally (when email, IM or other text based communications are not available).

I can answer questions if anyone is interested. Not promotion. Looking for honest feedback (please).

Website - http://numu.me

Thanks Guys!

P.S. if this in anyway is improperly posted (forum rule wise) I won't take it personally if I need to move the thread or, gasp, it gets deleted.

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I'm the orginal Poster - it did not include my user name
Oct 15, 2012 5:16PM PDT

So that it does not look fish, my username is RowanBausch. I don't know why the forum did not include it. I'm honestly looking for feedback. Everything is in test mode right now (yes, including the Ads, which, sigh, I need to test as well).

Thanks!

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I think the generated numbers
Oct 17, 2012 6:29AM PDT

should be as short as possible, since they expire within an hour. You could then often reuse numbers between 1-100, for example, which is less to communicate and less opportunity for errors to be introduced.

If privacy is a concern, which might be why they are not sequential, you could have have a checkbox of some sort that will generate a longer, more unique number. Regular people probably don't care if a link to a documentation gets viewed by users who randomly typed in the number, but the people who are more conscious about this will then have another option.

~Sovereign

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Does not work in SeaMonkey 2.13.1
Oct 16, 2012 3:43AM PDT

Also, we often delete posts that use shortened URLs due to how the links can be hijacked. That is, one day it's OK and the next it's spam or worse.

For use in this forum, posts would be deleted if they used your service.
Bob

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Thanks for the input
Oct 16, 2012 7:53AM PDT

The numerical tokens can be reused, which is why we added a layer of soft, visual verification about who created the token. The tokens themselves do no link directly via DNS (not an acutal HTTP url shortener) and honestly I didn't intend them to be used on website. Mostly to be communicated over the phone or other verbal ways.

I will look into SeaMonkey. Thank you for the input.