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nsksl | 7 months ago

I don't understand. For you to see the message, you have to click on the link. Your clicking on the link must mean that the link is active, since it is getting clicks. So why is the link being deactivated for being inactive?

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skybrian|7 months ago

> showed no activity in late 2024

Apparently they measured it once by running a map-reduce or equivalent.

I don’t see why they couldn’t measure it again. Maybe they don’t want it to be gamed, but why?

poyu|7 months ago

I interpreted "inactive" as the link that the shortener is linking to is not responding.

OutOfHere|7 months ago

No. Inactive means that the short URL hasn't been accessed in a while.

lathiat|7 months ago

If I had to guess it is possibly something to do with fighting crawlers/bots/etc triggering the detection? And running some kind of more advanced logic to try ensure it's really being used. Light captcha style.

But just a guess.