ListNook

As you may know, listnook has a five-year-old [preference](/prefs) entitled "display links with a listnook toolbar" that lets you bring along a 20px strip of listnook whenever you click a submission. [[screenshot](http://www.listnook.com/help/toolbar)] It's especially useful when opening a bunch of links up in background tabs, solving the issue of "Why did I open [this random picture](http://www.listnook.com/tb/eohp9) two hours ago?" It's also turned out to be a good de facto listnook shortlink system. Instead of having to pass around this mouthful: http://www.listnook.com/r/science/comments/em5zw/father_and_son_launch_an_hd_camera_and_an_iphone/ You can just use the toolbar link: http://listnook.com/em5zw This is what the "share" button has always done, by the way (have you ever tried it?) Your friend gets a link to the toolbar version, and this way they can see the content, the headline and, should they desire to go exploring, a way to get to the comments. Ideally this will lead them to create an account, and thus listnook moves one step closer to world domination. Anyway, the reason we're writing about all this today is that we've acquired the domain `redd.it`, shaving a few characters off our shortlinks and bringing them down to a size where we can put them in the sidebar. (Do you see this submission's shortlink up there on the right?) FAQ: Q1. Is listnook entering the URL shortening business? A1. No. We just acquired a cool domain and wanted to show it off. Note for adblockers: If you made an exception for listnook the simple way (by clicking the stop sign and saying "Disable on listnook.com"), that'll apply to every link you visit in the toolbar. If you only want to make an exception within listnook, and keep adblock on for external sites viewed inside the toolbar frame, you should instead set things up as described in [/help/adblock](/help/adblock). We'll end with a protip that, for whatever reason, not a lot of people know about. Skip it if you're easily confused: If you're on an external site, and you want to wrap the listnook toolbar around it, you can just prepend "redd.it/" to the existing URL. For example, if you're visiting a hot new search engine at `http://www.google.com`, just change that to `redd.it/http://www.google.com` (I know it looks funny, but go with it), and you'll be taken to the listnook page for that URL. If it's not already on listnook, you'll be taken to a prefilled submission page.

194 Comments

tomclancy Dec 20, 2010 +754

http://redd.it/http://redd.it/http://redd.it/http://redd.it/http://redd.it/http://redd.it/http://redd.it/http://redd.it/http://redd.it/http://redd.it/http://redd.it/http://redd.it/http://redd.it/http://redd.it/ This could be fun

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raldi Dec 20, 2010 +810

Thanks, it's been at least a few hours since the last "heavy load" period.

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tomclancy Dec 20, 2010 +206

A simple one-liner regexp would fix this :)

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raldi Dec 20, 2010 +679

if ($username =~ /clancy/) { ninjaban($username); }

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tomclancy Dec 20, 2010 +302

I take it SOMEONE doesn't enjoy my military fiction novels.

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[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +9

I felt really bad for Tom Clancy on 9/11. He practically wrote the terrorists' game plan, I wonder if that makes him lose sleep at night.

Epistaxis Dec 20, 2010 +7

No, I totally get a boner knowing how many torpedoes there are on a fully armed nuclear submarine.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +34

I used to, but then they got boring.

gaoshan Dec 20, 2010 +19

What?! How could you ever get tired of: "He extracted the tungsten-carbide based blade of his Counter TAC I Kraton Handle specops combat knife, sharpened to a surgically precise .05 microns (in the obsessive way that only a man who had suffered as he had could manage) from the spinal cord of the terrorist laying crumpled before him. The memory of what they did to his wife and child had left him a barren shell of fury, held together by only the thinest veneer of sanity and the rigors of 20 years of Navy SEAL training. Now he would seek each one out and deliver a merciless knife strike to that soft spot between their C5 and C6 spinal segments... just as his training taught him and his muscle memory had so polished. However, unlike the countless opponents he had dispatched cooly and professionally in the past, these would be personal."

monoglot Dec 21, 2010 +6

Please tell me that's an expertly crafted parody and not an actual Clancyism.

gaoshan Dec 21, 2010 +10

I wouldn't call it "expert" (though I am flattered) but it is indeed parody. I read one of his books and found it exciting, read a second and saw a pattern, started a third and couldn't finish it. That bit of carefully crafted text above sums up what I think of when I hear "Tom Clancy novel". Kind of like, if you are thinking of reading one of his books, that little bit I wrote can work as a Cliff Notes version of his writing.

preggit Dec 20, 2010 +135

I used to read Tom Clancy. I still do, but I used to, too.

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Randolpho Dec 20, 2010 +3

It was when every character felt like the same person that I quit reading Clancy.

FoleyDiver Dec 20, 2010 +38

I thought listnook was written in python. YOU LIED TO ME.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +33

if (!($username =~ /^raldi$/)) { $res->err(Listnook::Error::GatewayTimeout); }

Latch Dec 20, 2010 +15

The regexp is unneeded at that point ;)

psi- Dec 20, 2010 +30

... and then you have two problems.

jevon Dec 20, 2010 +16

> A simple one-liner regexp would stop the fun :)

wordsauce Dec 20, 2010 +44

Heavy load periods are the worst.

BauerUK Dec 20, 2010 +109

**C O N G E S T I O N** ` `^*Sorry*

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puffynipples_r_swell Dec 20, 2010 +60

We need to breathe deeper!

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +61

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andrewsmith1986 Dec 20, 2010 +21

Don't jinx us.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +41

My god...it's toolbars all the way down.

Han-ChewieSexyFanfic Dec 20, 2010 +24

[OH YES!!! :'D](http://imgur.com/A6hFX)

karmapuhlease Dec 20, 2010 +18

orangered^orangered^orangered^orangered^orangered

SerratedX Dec 20, 2010 +7

When it started with the headline "[We have to go deeper!](http://imgur.com/pVeSH.png)" I just about lost it...

badarts Dec 20, 2010 +16

It's listnooks all the way down!

davidnanch Dec 20, 2010 +25

Where did you acquire the domain from? How much does an acquisition like that cost? This isn't an AMA, but I'm curious.

raldi Dec 20, 2010 +46

An Italian domain holder. I'm not sure we're allowed to discuss the price, but it was less than you probably think.

echochamber Dec 20, 2010 +78

You gave him lifetime listnook gold, right?

LeroyJenkems Dec 20, 2010 +22

Even the Italians want that damn trophy.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +52

> Italian Made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

PirateMud Dec 20, 2010 +4

The ability to give people horsehead trophies for their profile.

rkcr Dec 20, 2010 +10

Insider sources tell me it was 400 quatloos.

eat_me Dec 20, 2010 +6

> it was less than you probably think. What do you think is the lowest I would probably think it was?

WornOutMeme Dec 20, 2010 +63

Italy.

davidnanch Dec 20, 2010 +13

I was actually wondering who they purchased it from. In my experience, any decent or meaningful domain name is squatted on so I figured that might be the case for them as well.

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bananabelle Dec 20, 2010 +8

I am going to be reading all listnook comments with an Italian accent now, à la Assassin's Creed.

diamond9 Dec 20, 2010 +1

More like "r" and then just a click.

raldi Dec 20, 2010 +39

Yeah, it's not really meant for the front page.

sligowaths Dec 20, 2010 +143

[CTRL+T], R, [ENTER].

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shoofle Dec 20, 2010 +11

In firefox, at least, you can use / to enter quick find mode, which lets you type keywords and then hit enter to click on a link if it's been selected by your search. It's one of the best keyboard-fu things I've ever learned, and it's what enabled me to finally get my hand off the mouse once and for all when browsing. Of course, I still use the mouse most of the time, but when I feel really lazy...

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +24

Even better, ' which lets you search only for links.

without_name Dec 20, 2010 +4

Thank you for telling me about this wonderful wonderful thing.

Idiomatick Dec 20, 2010 +3

I get http://www.r-project.org/ ... it wasn't bad though. I mean, not as funny as listnook, but decently informative I guess...

kad123 Dec 20, 2010 +21

CTRL+ENTER counts as one click?

keystroke count: R [ENTER] 1 i love you chrome.

patmools Dec 20, 2010 +7

it's 2 but you're right. I keep using other people's computers, type R [ENTER] and get 'this page doesn't exist you tit end' spouted back at me...

lucasvb Dec 20, 2010 +4

This is pretty cool! And I love the logo with the dropped dot of the i. It's brilliant! Although... I get the Italy part, but where does the soccer part come in?

raldi Dec 20, 2010 +24

The only time Italians consider themselves a single people (as opposed to distinct Sicilians, Venetians, Tuscans, Siennans, etc) is when the World Cup or Olympics are going on.

marcovinz Dec 20, 2010 +10

raldi, I'm italian and that is totally true. But how would you know that?

raldi Dec 20, 2010 +15

My wife and I drove all around the country in 2008. It was amazing. We brought a book called *Italy For the Gourmet Traveler* whose entire purpose was to explain that each region is like a country unto itself, with its own food and wine and bread and opinions totally different from the next one over.

marcovinz Dec 20, 2010 +3

Well, good for you! Happy you had a nice impression of our country. I'm from Rome, and I know people from Milano are a different kind of Italians, and I say it without any kind of "racism" or douchy attitude. But it's just like that, I mean people from Alabama are not like people from Oregon, right? ;P We should be called United States of Italy.

h_h_help Dec 20, 2010 +5

Senesi are Tuscans. So are Florentines, and we don't f****** like the Senesi. But they are better than the Pisans.

raldi Dec 20, 2010 +3

I heard you had to stop encoding hometowns into your license plates because people from Sienna kept getting into autostrada fights with people from Florence.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +2

Bookmarklet: javascript:var%20h=window.location.href;h='http://www.listnook.com/s/'+escape(h);window.location=h;

darceee Dec 20, 2010 -1

Shortened bookmarklet: javascript:window.location='http://listnook.com/s/'+escape(window.location.href)

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raldi Dec 20, 2010 +4

That's slower, because it has to go through redirects. Who cares if a bookmarklet is long?

monsieurlee Dec 20, 2010 +3

Dude it is 6:30 AM in California. Don't you people (and by people, I mean admins) sleep?

raldi Dec 20, 2010 +7

Not until we fix the heavy load problem.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +14

So you've not slept in months then?

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +5

[removed]

raldi Dec 20, 2010 +28

The key difference is that the listnook toolbar has always been an opt-in feature.

ohell Dec 20, 2010 +39

Not on the mobile site it isn't, even though it annoys the f*** out of everyone!

miner60 Dec 20, 2010 +6

Yep...that really ruins the mobile site experience in my opinion. With the option to turn it off, the mobile site would be just about good enough on the iPhone. Luckily there's Alien Blue.

GoldenBoar Dec 20, 2010 -15

Yes, but like *all* toolbars, it's useless garbage. I thought you guys had limited resources. Get your priorities straight man.

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raldi Dec 20, 2010 +6

It's been there since 2005. Adding the shortlink to the right column was like a four-line code change.

ocdude Dec 20, 2010 +5

Dude, listnook toolbar has been around for quite a long time. Not a new feature.

alb1234 Dec 20, 2010 +1

The headline we really wanted to see before Christmas: Listnook: 30% less crashing!

You might see it soon after Christmas, as the load on Amazon's datacenter drops like a rock.

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hm2k Dec 20, 2010 +1

Does this mean you'll make the links in the RSS feeds shorter too? >Change >http://www.listnook.com/r/announcements/comments/eorhm/listnook_30_less_typing/ >to >http://redd.it/eorhm >Or >http://www.listnook.com/r/announcements/comments/eorhm/listnook_30_less_typing/ >To >http://redd.it/eorhm

Why would link size matter there?

damnatio_memoriae Dec 20, 2010 +1

Bandwidth? Probably not much of a win when compared with the extra processing you'd have to do. Edit: Really? Downvotes? Classy.

That's a false optimization. The extra latency of another roundtrip destroys any bandwidth savings, by several orders of magnitude.

but...I don't use the listnook toolbar because when I have ad block off on your site and I visit another site with the listnook toolbar I get their very annoying ads. Oh, and most of the time I am not logged on because I want to view the default page not one taylored to my viewing habits (who wants to see chipmunk pr0wn all the time?)

Raerth Dec 20, 2010 +31

Any chance of making this work with the regular URL trickery? eg: redd.it/r/sublistnook - sublistnook.redd.it - etc

raldi Dec 20, 2010 +12

We definitely don't want it to be a general-purpose alias, but if there are a few specific use cases that could really benefit, we could add them.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 -5

Awesome, now how about fixing "you broke listnook" that I still get every other page? You can put racing stripes and a fart can on your 1990 Geo but it's still going to be a piece of shit.

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[It takes time](http://www.listnook.com/r/announcements/comments/efpn0/listnook_gold_gift_clistnooks_are_now_for_sale/c17qmvd), but we're getting near the end of the list. Sorry it's been such a difficult month, but the light at the end of the tunnel is visible.

GoldenBoar Dec 20, 2010 -5

Perhaps when you stop spending the Listnook Gold cash on stupid gimmick domain names and wasting time on stuff like useless toolbars, more people will buy Listnook Gold. PS. Can you buy Listnook Gold with BitCoins?

We wrote the toolbar code in 2005. The domain was bought by staff outside of the listnook team. Adding the sidebar link took me five minutes this morning.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 -3

Flashbacks of the Digg bar and how it kinda killed digg.

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http://www.listnook.com/r/announcements/comments/eorhm/listnook_30_less_typing/c19qkvi

Liquid_Fire Dec 20, 2010 +13

The listnook bar has existed for ages.

ZenBerzerker Dec 20, 2010 +1

I *like* sending links that have a subject in the link data. I **don't** like links to be in a frame (some site don't even work in a frame, dumdums). Short nonsense links are useful when tweeting, sure, but meh for sharing without an 80's style character limit. >256l should be enough for everyone

tso Dec 20, 2010 +69

On the topic of the toolbar, any chance that it can be made optional on i.listnook.com? Not every mobile browser plays nice with it hovering there in the upper left corner...

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +23

Yeah, that bugs me too. It seems listnook doesn't forward the proper user agent because a lot sites won't show their mobile site. Also, I have the setting for open links in a new window and it doesn't work on mobile. I know it isn't supported on every phone, but listnook is a techy crowd and probably most of us have devices that can do it.

psychoplant Dec 20, 2010 +6

Browsers send the user agent with every request, listnook has no control over that. You may be thinking of the referrer (another HTTP request header) which can be masked by the server doing a redirect, however no such thing is possible for the user agent so it must be something else, and probably isn't listnook's fault.

Avatar_Ko Dec 20, 2010 +15

Yeah, I find tge toolbar fairly useless on my iPhone. And then it gets annoying when I have to hit the tiny x and reload the page because it's blocking a gif or preventing a YouTube video from opening in the YouTube app.

stufff Dec 20, 2010 +11

Yeah, I agree. that toolbar breaks things in my version of Opera on WM6.5 until I close it, every time.

clogmoney Dec 20, 2010 +10

Yes please! Toolbar removal on mobile site would actually make me browse listnook even more.

cptskippy Dec 20, 2010 +10

Please!! The toolbar is awful on mobile, make it be gone!

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +10

As long as we're mentioning the Listnook toolbar, can you guys check out how the little popover works on the mobile version? When I click a link and get the little blue thing with like/dislike or whatever, it doesn't let me scroll on my Android phone. I have to close the thing to actually interact with the content of the linked page.

Sting1 Dec 20, 2010 +471

I'm Italian and I would like to speak on behalf of all Italians. I approve this.

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iconoclaus Dec 20, 2010 +602

I can't see your hands gesticulating madly, so I have no idea what you are saying right now. I'm beginning to doubt you're even Italian.

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ColdWar Dec 20, 2010 +418

>It's-a-me! I'ma Italian and I woulda likea to speaka on behalf of all Italians. I approvea this. Translated into proper Italian for you.

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[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +53

I always found Mario's accent to be borderline racist.

ductyl Dec 20, 2010 +8

Yeah, we recently discovered that the Super Mario Brothers Super Show is available on Netflix... I had no recollection of how blatantly they [stereotyped](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6yk2xCXtIk&t=3m34s) Italians... (FYI, the Brothers Mario were lured in to that cell because they fell for Bowser's "Free Italian Food" sign.)

whatsamatteryou Dec 20, 2010 +186

Of course, it's also borderline accurate.

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[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +47

Appropriate username. 1 year 3 months and 7 days.

mattgrande Dec 20, 2010 +280

> Babbaty boopity.

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flabbergasted1 Dec 20, 2010 +105

Listnook: Where we're racist against *every* race. (alternatively) Listnook: Indiscriminate discrimination.

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MrDanger Dec 20, 2010 +52

Italian isn't a race. We're cultural elitists, not racists.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +67

That's a nice mustache!

[deleted] Dec 21, 2010 +3

I thought that I must have clicked something that made listnook Italian themed, which I thought was nice because I'm Italian. Then I saw this and realized instead that I'm borderline retarded and probably suffer from some sort of grey-matter deficiency. Thanks for helping me realize this, listnook.

mnlg Dec 20, 2010 +15

Ti uccido con questa carne!

UpboatCity Dec 20, 2010 +11

did you use Google Translate?

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +45

Well I don't see your white beard or fat belly. I'm beginning to doubt you're any kind of Claus.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +66

I don't see you vomiting into your infant's mouth. I'm beginning to doubt you're any kind of penguin.

bitingmyownteeth Dec 20, 2010 +39

I don't see you foaming at the mouth, trying to get out of the situation here. I'm beginning to doubt you're any kind of weasle(sic).

darkgreen Dec 20, 2010 +21

I don't see you knarsing your teeth until one breaks and then biting them. I'm beginning to doubt you're any kind of teeth biter.

Proseedcake Dec 20, 2010 +45

I don't see you reflecting light between a wavelength of 4950 and 5700 angstroms. I'm beginning to doubt you're any kind of green.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +44

I don't see you covered in icing and sliced into pieces ready for consumption. I'm beginning to doubt you are any kind of lie.

philh Dec 20, 2010 +10

I don't see you driving around my neighbourhood with tinted windows and offering candy to kids. I'm beginning to doubt you are any kind of van.

i_is_less_than_3u Dec 20, 2010 +3

I don't see you walking around with your .5J spring shotgun. I'm beginning to doubt you are any kind of an Airsoft wielding maniac.

Little_Tinker Dec 20, 2010 +31

You would be a sic weasle if you were foaming at the mouth.

mailor Dec 20, 2010 +3

fellow Italian listnookor here, I confirm I approve this. That's 2 out of at least 686 ([source](http://www.listnook.com/r/italy)), we need to prove that for the (n+1)th step and we should be fine with your statement.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +253

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fresnik Dec 20, 2010 +21

A buddy of mine got one hell of an email address once. He worked in IT at an Icelandic utility company (or.is) and got the username 'c***'.

strum Dec 20, 2010 +11

One of the coolest addresses I ever saw was maybe@yes.no

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +525

525

lucasvb Dec 20, 2010 +89

Shh, you shouldn't be talking about Listnook Platinum features.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +38

The first rule of Listnook Platinum Club...

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +84

andrewsmith1986 Dec 20, 2010 +135

Damn email hipsters.

amberamberamber Dec 20, 2010 +70

Hey, leave the email bourgeoisie out of this.

HEY EVERYBODY! SHE KNOWS FANCY WORDS!

Poromenos Dec 20, 2010 +22

Sesquipedalian.

Little_Tinker Dec 20, 2010 +27

A quincunx of retromingent tribades.

thebillmac3 Dec 20, 2010 +35

. . . . . Each dot is a lesbian laying on her partner, simulating a male as during intercourse, while pissing backwards.

drphungky Dec 20, 2010 +10

And now we know.

Word web only has tribades. Time to upgrade to WordWeb Pro.

iusuallypostwhileipo Dec 20, 2010 +3

[Music](http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=Sdz2oW0NMFk#t=104s) makes the bourgeoisie and the rebel come together.

iconoclaus Dec 20, 2010 +12

haha, that nanker guy - always a day late and a dollar short.

CervezaPorFavor Dec 20, 2010 +16

...and a few minutes too early, if you know what I mean.

andrewsmith1986 Dec 20, 2010 +39

I have never heard of an email address being s***. Does it even have a watermark?

joazito Dec 20, 2010 +13

Are you kidding? A s*** email domain would be... how shall I put it... *hot*!

lackofbrain Dec 20, 2010 +19

And it would be for mail, so perhaps it should be called something like... hot... mail... whatever@hot.mail.redd.it sounds good!

monkeybreath Dec 20, 2010 +19

Yeah, like I'm going to give out monkeybreath@redd.it to anyone. edit: at least it's not I_RAPE_CATS@redd.it

freshlyabortedkitten Dec 20, 2010 +12

And what is wrong with that?

privatejoker86 Dec 20, 2010 +12

Who would possibly want to ditch their Compuserve emails for this?

frunt Dec 20, 2010 +10

absurd scandalous safe cake wasteful plant aback light vanish worm -- mass edited with redact.dev

havicdvs Dec 20, 2010 +87

what's wrong with @aol.com?

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +163

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havicdvs Dec 20, 2010 +66

don't tell me what to do. go fetch me my cigarettes.

GoldenBoar Dec 20, 2010 +13

I don't know about you, but I like having the abilitiy to check my gmail account. Listnook can't even keep the website up, nevermind handle email as well.

frantk Dec 20, 2010 +10

Who said something about listnook email *accounts?* He said email address, which you could then easily forward to your Gmail account.

beffjaxter Dec 20, 2010 +15

One reason why I stopped using the Listnook Toolbar is that it disabled the browser from resizing images down to fit within the screen space. Has this been addressed?

bellicosebloom Dec 20, 2010 -3

Raldi...I thought when you said 30% less typing, I thought you meant getting rid of this (2 spaces and an enter key for every line break) > 4 spaces and 2 presses of the enter key if you want a double line break, for a more visible seperation... I don't know what the actual "savings" of typing would be across every single Listnook user but you would save millions of worn out thumbs and space bars.

hudders Dec 20, 2010 +2

Except it's much more typing if you want to go to the page referenced by the home page logo now.

oorza Dec 20, 2010 +15

[I think I broke it](http://www.listnook.com/s/http://www.listnook.com/s/http://www.listnook.com/s/http://www.listnook.com/s/http://www.listnook.com/s/http://www.listnook.com/s/http://www.listnook.com/s/http://www.listnook.com/s/http://www.listnook.com/s/http://www.listnook.com/s/http:/www.listnook.com/s/http:/www.listnook.com/s/http:/www.listnook.com/s/http:/www.listnook.com/r/announcements/comments/eorhm/listnook_30_less_typing/). On a more serious note, shouldn't this be disallowed?

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[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +39

Digg has ASCII art, we have space-hogging graphs of y = mx +b

mynamesdave Dec 20, 2010 +21

We gotta draw the line somewhere, amirite?

jthei Dec 20, 2010 +5

>We gotta draw the slope somewhere, amirite? FTFY

vwllss Dec 20, 2010 +24

‮!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!^!aohW

fruityMcGaygay Dec 21, 2010 +1

Hacker News has a similar shorter URL: http://hackerne.ws But they don't redirect to http://news.ycombinator.com - the shortened domain stays active (e.g. hackerne.ws/threads). It looks so much cleaner. Can redd.it do this?

Amablue Dec 20, 2010 +60

What's this google thing? Looks interesting.

ggggbabybabybaby Dec 20, 2010 +53

It'll never take off, it's just a couple of Stanford eggheads and their algorithms. You should take that job at pets.com instead.

Pickphlow Dec 20, 2010 +40

>I just invested $1,000 in AOL, I'm gonna be rich! Do you know how addictive those chat rooms are? I spent 3 hours telling people my a/s/l the other day (that's age, sex and location for those of you who aren't "in the know," as we AOLers call it). This is too fun, can we have a 90s day on listnook someday where we all pretend its 1996 again?

Chairboy Dec 20, 2010 +5

On a semi-related note, it would be super handy if I could turn the darn toolbar off in the .compact view. That toolbar does not obey the setting in preferences, alas... :( Example: http://i.imgur.com/OIqcx.png

scottcmu Dec 20, 2010 +5

I started reading this post, but then I gave up halfway through when I saw Ratmaze on the right. Let me know how it ended.

ImTryingToBeNicer Dec 20, 2010 +16

Does anyone else just go to the browser and type "re" then [enter]?

C_IsForCookie Dec 20, 2010 +5

Not even. It's my only bookmark at the top.

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siovene Dec 20, 2010 +94

> questo è pertinent**e** **ai** miei interessi FTFY.

4onthefloor Dec 20, 2010 +74

Nazista della grammatica esiste anche in italia...sporco dio!

siovene Dec 20, 2010 +95

*Fascista* della grammatica, per favore.

preggit Dec 20, 2010 +26

I'm American and what is this?

nephros Dec 20, 2010 +49

Foreign. Ignore it.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +12

It's terrorists plotting an attack. BOMB THEM AND FONDLE YOUR COUNTRYMENS BALLSACKS!!1111

poorly_timed_gimli Dec 20, 2010 +27

E LA MIA ASCIA!

thebillmac3 Dec 20, 2010 +17

I recognize East L.A., but that's about it.

dieyoubastards Dec 20, 2010 +8

>sporco dio Holy Spork!

dieyoubastards Dec 20, 2010 +28

Fun fact: The Italian language relies mostly on speech but also partially on hand gestures, rendering it impossible for Italian to be fully understood in written form or on the internet.

h_h_help Dec 20, 2010 +63

I am italian and I confirm this. In fact, when you are reading Dante's *Divine Comedy* in italian, next to the text there are depictions of the hand gestures Dante was making with his left hand while he was writing with his right hand.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +29

*Lasciate ogni speranza, voi'che intrate* \o/ /o\ \o_ _o/

I so want this to be true but can't shake my suspicion that you're trolling.

dr_jan_itor Dec 20, 2010 +18

bullshit. *waves his hands menacingly at dieyoubastards*

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +118

Nice work ral.di!

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andrewsmith1986 Dec 20, 2010 +78

Worst. Meme. Ev.er

na85 Dec 20, 2010 +3

No offense guys, but I think that rather than buying a .it domain, you guys should have spent the money on better servers so listnook doesn't go down for hours on end during Eastern Standard primetime.

fragmede Dec 20, 2010 +2

Here's a thought. (This would be a user preference that's disabled by default.) When you click a submission title, it loads in a new tab, and goes to the listnook page, but the listnook page looks for a cookie. If that cookie is not set, it sets the cookie and forwards to the actual submission. Then, in the new tab, I can hit 'back' and go back to the page of the submission. If I've got a habit of opening a pile of tabs before going through them, then I can hit back on each tab for context.

[deleted] Dec 20, 2010 +4

I love the toolbar feature, one change which I'd like to suggest: Some sites (flickr, twitter, facebook and stackoverflow come to mind) don't allow pages to be displayed within a frame, so when you click on a link to any of those sites, it causes problems. Would you be able to maintain a list of these sites and not show the topbar for these sites?

Pickphlow Dec 20, 2010 +2

I know everyone always applauds the admins for all the hard work they do, but this is my favorite part about how listnook is run: transparency. You guys announce and explain every single change you make to the site, and are flexible to withdraw or modify those changes based on the feedback from the community, and I really appreciate that. So thanks for making this an enjoyable little transparent corner of the internet.

.it ? I'm expecting: ***"Redd.it è sotto pesante carico proprio ora"*** and ***"Sembra tu abbia rotto internet"***

aoss Dec 20, 2010 +2

Does the URL shortener take any steps to make sure that the short url's arent sucking the Googlejuice from the content they are linking to? Adding the canonical meta to the header of the frameset will transfer the pagerank and whatnot to the original URL which I think would be the nice thing to do. http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html

redd.it: 30% less typing!

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