Comment 3 for bug 745041

At the moment I'm not so keen on pad.lv getting into making hashed
short URLs; there are already very many services that do this and I'm
not sure what I could add. I suppose it would have the benefit of
promising you the link went somewhere on Launchpad and not to goatse.
What else is wrong with just using eg bit.ly?

I want to steer in pad.lv for something different which is URLs people
can make up by hand and also where they can see immediately what the
URL will lead to.

For instance bam's link could turn into something like
http://pad.lv/bugs/u/nautilus which I think is rather better than a
hash, though slightly longer.