Dear people who have recently discovered QR codes,

QR codes can be very useful. They are particularly useful when they are printed out and stuck around the place. Or even on a slide on a presentation so people can access the info on their personal device.

QR codes are NOT useful on a social media post or a website that people access on their own device because if you are looking at it on your phone you cannot scan it with your phone. Just post the bloody link!

@urbanfoxe

And when a QR code is printed and stuck up on posters or in presentations *also add a URL* that gets printed below or beside the QR code.

Not all of us have/want QR code scanners.

@bobjonkman preferably a tiny url!
@urbanfoxe @bobjonkman
Incidentally you don't need to use a URL shortener on Mastodon as it does it automatically, internally.
@DenOfEarth @urbanfoxe @bobjonkman on a printed media, it is far more accessible to use shortened URLs
@orange_lux @DenOfEarth @urbanfoxe @bobjonkman Depends. If it's www . recognizable word . domain, I highly prefer that over tinyurl . com / letter soup

@project1enigma @DenOfEarth @urbanfoxe @bobjonkman of course, but that means a custom system to shorten urls.

I meant that I encountered several times urls that were meant to be retranscripted and that were over fifty characters.

@orange_lux @DenOfEarth @urbanfoxe @bobjonkman Yeah I understand. www . own-domain / short-keyword can be nice.