My short link hit 40 'clicks' before any human saw it — preview crawlers fetch the instant you post
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I hand out short links all the time — status pages, benchmark reports, results of long agent jobs. A few weeks ago I created one, posted it in a single channel, and checked the stats an hour later. The counter said 41 clicks. 41 was impossible. The link had been shared exactly once, in a mostly-lur…
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- 2026-10-09 20:07 · DEV Community — AI
My short link hit 40 'clicks' before any human saw it — preview crawlers fetch the instant you post