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Is there a way to edit the UID. I messed mine up and prematurely pressed enter.

Or possibly have a way to revoke the shortened version of the link?

Best,
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Shortened URLs should have a created_at date to note when they were created.

Right now, the application checks to see if a potential tag exists. If it does, it is rejected (with a 409 error); if not, it is created. This is done in two steps, so there is the potential that a tag could not exist, but would be created in another request before the current request had a chance to create it -- which means the current request would create another tag of the same name. Obviously this is bad.

One way to avoid this problem is to create a unique index on the name field, but that complicates sharding. stack.im is not sharded now (and most likely never will be), but I'd still like to follow best practices in its design. I'll keep poking around for a solution to this issue.

Shortened URLs should have an analytics.views page that counts how often the URL was hit. (Or maybe this should be stored in a separate collection?)