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dheera on Jan 9, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to store your app's entire state in the url

> It has the advantage of not having a size limit

Still though I suppose you could probably gzip it before base64 encoding it for some additional optimization.

Extremely long URLs have other UX issues, e.g. sending them on chat apps and having them eat up multiple scroll pages in one URL, like:

"Check out this event:

http://..... ... ... (500 scroll-screen-lengths of just URL) ... ...

Here's another event on the same day:

http://..... ... ... (500 scroll-screen-lengths of just URL) ... ...

Can you let me know what you think and which one you'd like to go to?"

kelnos on Jan 9, 2023 | [–]

The article mentions that compression is already being used.

jefftk on Jan 9, 2023 | [–]

I don't most chat apps truncate long URLs?

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