I don't want to suggest a technology, but the URL shortener on wdqs has been EXTREMELY USEFUL to me and it would be major bummer to lose it.  I recently taught a class and used a variety of examples of SPARQL queries over wikidata.  Having that shortener made it much faster for me to assemble the lecture and give people easy ways to get to those queries.  

I could have used another one on my own I guess, but the current implementation is much faster and less error prone when dealing with monster sparqling urls... 

please find a way to keep it
-Ben

On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Tom Morris <tfmorris@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Julie McMurry <mcmurry.julie@gmail.com> wrote:
While I agree the primary aim isn't shortening, the result is usually much shorter by virtue of cutting out everything non essential to identification. 

Except in the case of a giant query string, such as a complex SPARQL query. 

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