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Automatically shorten osu! links in chat

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This is a feature request. Feature requests can be voted up by supporters.
Current Priority: +4
Topic Starter
Gens
Forgive me if something similar has popped out before. Searched just to make sure it hasn't.

Common links in osu! are something like: http://osu.ppy.sh/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&p=510002#p510002
The forums already shorten the link a bit: viewtopic.php?f=13&p=510002#p510002

It would be nice if the osu! chat did this as well. External IRC clients would still show the full URLs, while the osu!client would show it shorter; just to make it less cluttered and stuff. I suppose this would be low priority.

Some examples:
http://osu.ppy.sh/s/13400 -> /s/13400
http://osu.ppy.sh/b/49883 -> /b/49883
http://osu.ppy.sh/u/23062 -> /u/23062

Just a random thought I had, feel free to deny for whatever reason.
dkun
/support
But this is a disadvantage to the average IRC user, if I'm not mistaken.
awp
osu! formatted links ()[] are already an eyesore for irc users, this doesn't seem as bad by comparison
Topic Starter
Gens
Bump, and also adding something else:

Maybe also shorten the links of popular sites/domains? For example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8uLT_EI ... re=related
could have its &feature= part cut down. Or maybe cut it down to /watch?v=K8uLT_EIJjs only, even.

More examples:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sour ... =&gs_rfai= -> /search?&q=something
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat -> /wiki/Cat

I don't know if this is feasible though.
mm201
If this is done, it would be a clientside filter, so IRC clients have nothing to worry about.

Something to look at whenever we rewrite the chat engine anyway, but probably not happening too soon.
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