If you are a diasp.org user you have seen dia.so URL’s and can shorten any URL with it inside Diaspora.
I have offered others to use it, but no one has bitten, that’s ok! I did just launch a profile shortner on the main dia.so page. Idea is to simplify connecting with others via a central hub. Since it sets a cookie with your pod name it would be a nice central hub for things, all things! If you have created something or know someone that has that “needs to know” the users pod to work properly please suggest it!
Is there a way to shorten the URL before a status is posted? That would certainly help in the character count for Twitter.
Not right now, but I fixed the js counter to again reflect proper when you use the /// method.
https://github.com/diasporg/diaspora/commit/c97bd5406d1636004ea22172411a31362df472d1