ASC.COOL
URL SHORTENER
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Version 2025.06.05 - Helpdesk
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Dev notes -
❔ Sample link: asc.cool/?demo 🚀
2025.06.05 — Updates
• Fixed/improved version on js console
• Enabled js console command-line url shortening with
2025.05.24 — Updates
• Font adjustment
• Updated content security policy
• Javascript streamlining
2025.05.21b — Updates
• Improved character generator readability
• Fixed decoding for HTML entities
2024.11.22 — Updates
• Streamlining
2024.08.27 — Fixes
• PWA manifest for installing to devices
• User agent string now updates with version
2024.07.16 — User experience
• Mobile App PWA functionality
• Created "Sample Link" asc.cool/?demo to demonstrate functionality, available at the helpdesk.
2024.07.15 — Caching and streamlining
• Enhanced cool naming system to uses shortest available generated id.
• Link info is cached for quick retrieval.
• Cached data gets refreshed if older than 5 minutes.
• Steamlined CSS to not preload unused fonts.
• Link info webpages show cached 💾 or live 🌐 indicators.
2024.07.13 — More improvements
• Links now use redirected source instead of fetching source from final url (redundant).
• Visual enhancements have improved formatting and coloring.
2024.07.12 — UX improvements
• Narrow-type webfont accommodates long URLs and narrow screens of mobile phones and vertically-oriented tablets.
• Version history dev notes now also includes feedback form.
• User agent string changed to: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; asc.cool 2024.07.12; +https://ascendents.net)
2024.07.11 — Redirect handling
• Notifies final URL if destination link redirects...
• Follows server, meta, and javascript redirects...
• Checks destination meta tags for open graph, X card, keywords, description, canonical URL, and Content-Security-Policy (CSP)...
2024.07.09 — Welcome to asc.cool, the better URL shortener!
• See link destinations before clicking!
• Review a URL's Content-Security-Policy.
• Get meta tags, open-graph, and twitter card information before clicking through.
• Flag bad links; see the percentage of visitors who flagged it.
• Privacy/anonymity
• Modify the url to clean/remove tracking parameters.
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