New Feature: Preview Pages
We have gotten a lot of feedback concerning our new preview pages - thanks a lot for that! Now let me explain a bit more detailed why we thought this page was necessary:
The main reason why we introduced this feature was that we wanted to protect you from malware- and phising sites. In the past some users took advantage of the Cligs-Service and we were forced to move to a new provider, due to the old one shutting down because of this misuse.
To avoid this in the future and to make using cligs easier for you , we now let every user decide by himself if he wants to be redirected to a shortened url or not: we will now provide meta-information, title and a small preview-pic of the destination URL for you. This lets you check out the desired website without having to click on it first - so you will not be redirected to any weird pages using cryptic short URLs anymore.
Please keep your feedback coming on this new feature - we would love to know how we can make the preview page better.
Update: It’s possible again to edit your cligs!
Cligs Mailing List
@cligs on Twitter
Juni 28th, 2010 at 12:19 pm
I was surprised to see the new preview page the first time it came up, but I think it is an excellent step forward. The possibility of short urls masking anything at all was already something that concerned me, and made me reluctant to click on shortened urls.
Congratulations on doing something to protect against this (even if it does mean I now have to start writing meta descriptions for my own blog posts!)
I think you’re the first to take this welcome step!