That's a bit of a whiny comment! Use something else if you don't like the Urls. Urls are less relevant these days anyway. Who types Urls anymore? Or who even looks at them?

Who types URLs or looks at them? If you write URLs in an email, print them on a business card, put them on a poster, say them in a conversation, or basically need anybody who isn't already using a web browser to go to your page, you type URLs and look at them (or hear them). Hearing is the worst offender.

- Hey there, you should check out this really cool site/post/app/thing!

- That sounds nice, where should I go?

- You go to uh.. googledrive dot com slash host slash zero capital B ehh... forget it.

There is a reason that facebook gave their users vanity URLs, and twitter user URLs are so minimalist, and people pay millions for domain names. A shorter URL is more useful and hence more valuable.

Having the option to point your own domain at the folder would be really nice, actually, and put this on the same tier as Github Pages and S3.

You would never put a link like this on a business card or relay it in person anyway. You'd probably just hyperlink some text on a blog or in an email. It's pretty clear that this isn't a permanent web hosting solution.

I thought he did not mean type but look.

Now you could see a very unreadable url in browser's address bar. If you share the url without shorten it, it's looks ugly.

Word, the complaining about things is endless.

Google is no charity, sure. But they make it easy for people to develop web apps, prototype and monkey with web content, they allow people to share their work with a simple click, but GOD the URLs are not good enough for some random dude on the Internets, we'd better throw our arms in the air and get all snarky about it.

With this trend of negativity I guess we've found the cure for mortality. It gets REALLY old but somehow never dies.

Whining about whining. So meta.