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I was laying in bed on the morning of the 23rd of march 2019, thinking of Discord, and I came to the understanding that these long, randomised invite links that are generated make it really difficult to share your server with others who may wish to join. I have no idea how anyone can remember a random string of 6 to 8 characters featuring uppercase and lowercase letters, as well as numbers to boot!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I thought back to a time not so long ago online, where people would use the service TinyURL<\/a> to generate their own links to share sites easily with others, and thought that a concept similar to that would be great for Discord, with the emphasis on “the shorter the link, the better”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I set about to searching for top level domains made up of only two letters, much similar to the one this site is using at the moment. I stumbled across the .im TLD, which is respresentative of The Isle of Man, and thought “Hey, Discord is an Instant messenger of sorts, that could work great!”. I stumbled in my mind for a short while thinking of what short acronym to use for the site, even though I had an inkling in my head of what it should be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was then I comitted, this would be it, this would be what would become one of the best services anyone could provide to a Discord user. This would be…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dus.im – The Discord URL Shortener<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was ecstatic to have had this idea. I checked around other people’s custom link makers and similar services of the sort. They were all long, Fake-Discord-like URLs, and required many steps to operate. I decided that Dus.im links need not be handled through the use of an always present bot on your server, which was most often the case with these sites, but rather a simple .htaccess redirect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It took a few days to code the site and get everything working nicely. It was a good time. Once done, I announced it by printing adverts and spreading them around. I filmed a short advert too! Here it is!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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