That was my first idea, but as I thought about it I said to myself, what's the most important feature? Having a browser extension that can take a simple txt file from the web.
There are already some great tools for this (gist, pastebin in particular). Developing the infrastructure to manage the lists, although not very complicated, took a bit more time.
Here I have a simple html page to present the extension, the extension itself is hosted by Google (and soon Firefox, I hope...) and... that's it :)
But of course, if the idea takes off, I'll make it available!
Hello! This thread is no longer on the front page, but just to keep the few people still passing by, I finally created a browser extension! It completes the site :)
Thank you for your report, I'll try to fix the issues you mentioned.
For the last one, it takes some times because I verify the metadata from the URLs, and check if the website exists. I don't know if it's a good idea but this is how it works right now. And this is why you see the target url with a 301.
I don't want users to do link cloaking on Multy and if people click on something on Multy, they are aware of where they're going.
This is why I do that, and this is why I also want to integrate a domain blacklist.
This is something I didn't think about but you're absolutely right.
I need to find a solution to edit the list. In your example, if a teacher want to add something in the middle of the year or update a website, it would be useful.
If I don't want to add an authentication system, maybe with a token...
For a few days now I've been thinking about an API system allowing users to create lists directly, without going through Multy. With a POST that would return a unique link to a JSON. This would allow people to integrate their own system to their site/application.
If I had to monetize a part of Multy, maybe it would be this API, I don't know what you think?
Ok I understand! Easier than I thought ;) Being able to have numbered links is definitely something I can do. I'll add that to my to-do list! It could be an option, not necessarily visible by default.
Right now it's fine with the number of lists created per day