There's no quitting in the URL shortening game!
Two Days Ago:
Two Days Ago, But a Little Later in the Day:
Regretfully, we here at Nambu have decided to shutdown tr.im, the first step in shutting down all of our products and services within that brand.tr.im did well for what it was, but, alas, it was not enough. We simply cannot find a way to justify continuing to work on it, or pay its network costs, which are not inconsequential. tr.im pushes (as I write this) a lot of redirects and URL creations per day, and this required significant development investment and server expansion to accommodate.
We wanted to make another update to make one thing clear some users have missed from the homepage notice: All tr.im links will continue to redirect until at least December 31, 2009. We will not be turning tr.im off for redirections.Also, the API will continue to operate until further notice. All software and services have plenty of time to remove tr.im without user disruption. The only thing down is the tr.im website itself, and URL statistics presentation.
We have restored tr.im, and re-opened its website. We have been absolutely overwhelmed by the popular response, and the countless public and private appeals I have received to keep tr.im alive.Okay, so is it me or is it tr.im that's crazy here?
We have answered those pleas. Nambu will keep tr.im operating going forward, indefinitely, while we continue to consider our options in regards to tr.im's future.
Isn't it about time for them to quit again?
tr.im is now the Sarah Palin of the URL shortening services!
How can tr.im ever expect to be taken seriously again when they keep quitting and then coming back?
Here on the Boles Blogs Network, we used to use tr.im to compress our URLs, but their service was incomplete and getting tech support to kindly and cogently help us was not a pleasant experience that we wanted to repeat. We are happy that very few of our compressed URLs are at risk with tr.im's bizarre behavior in the marketplace.
We then tried bit.ly and loved its quickness and intuitiveness.
Sometimes one product is just inherently better than another and that's what gives them mindshare in the marketplace -- not a friendship with the Twitter powers.
I wonder who will foot the bill for tr.im? It's a more sensible URL than bit.ly in that it tells you exactly what it does (am I reading bit.ly wrong?) but we don't need no quitters around these parts! :)
I don't know who will save tr.im, Gordon, when the company says they can't afford to maintain it an nobody else wants it.
Bit.ly is strange, but "is.gd" was even stranger! Bit.ly is now the Twitter default for truncating URLs -- it used to be TinyURL -- so whatever "little bit" of Bit.ly will get you is what we all got now.
I agree about the quitting part -- if any user signs up for tr.im after they quit and then recanted -- then they're bigger losers than the quitters!