Comment 7 for bug 317136

Trying to solve it using the URL scheme is unlikely to yield great results. The current long URLs are verbose, but have the advantage of being memorable and transparent. If we try to change them we'll end up in an arms race where we never get significant improvements (significant enough to remove the requirement for a real tiny URL) and the URL scheme for LP as a whole is becoming baroque.

We already know that Tiny URLs are a good solution (because so many people use them). The only question is whether we can make it even easier to acquire them.