rust-lang / rust-lang/rust-playground
Please bring back URL shortening
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enhancement
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- Rust
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Description
I'd prefer not to store transient code snippets permanently on GitHub, subject to GitHub's T&C, etc. is.gd was a very good choice, but I think a service that retires shortlinks after some time would be even better.
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by inspecting how the playground currently shares or persists snippets, then clarify the shortlink service, expiration behavior, and privacy requirements before defining completion criteria.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- web-dev
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100