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KronisLVtoday at 10:51 AM0 repliesview on HN

I don't even track the clicks, at this point the shortener is just an Apache2 container with a long config file and some shell scripts for me adding new links: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/sometimes-dropbox-is-just-ftp-b...

Previously it was YOURLS but now it's the simpler setup, the whole reason for me adding it in the first place was that Grav (which is otherwise a lovely flat-file CMS) was really bad at handling query strings in Markdown, the actual links kept breaking quite often, even if I like it otherwise: https://getgrav.org/

I did write a bit more about messing around with the CMS and migrating to a more Git-driven setup rather than manually using an Admin UI for writing a while back: https://blog.kronis.dev/blog/my-blog-doesnt-need-quality-it-... (probably should have used "polish" instead of "quality" in the title but ehh who cares)

Not sure if it's been patched since, will probably look into it at some point. Might either migrate from the shortener to direct links at some point, or add an intermediate page: "You are about to go to: <URL>" with some buttons/countdown.

My apologies for the inconvenience until then.