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wedontdozero opened this issue Apr 27, 2025 · 3 comments
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Add Built-in Link Shortening to Improve Survey URL Legibility and Trust #5514

wedontdozero opened this issue Apr 27, 2025 · 3 comments
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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Survey URLs with single-use tokens and tracking parameters exceed 170+ characters, causing:

  • Perceived illegitimacy due to lengthy, complex links.
  • Reduced click-through rates as users distrust "messy" URLs.
  • Inability to use third-party shorteners (e.g., Bitly) without raising suspicion among privacy-conscious recipients

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Native Shortening

  • Automatically generate short, branded URLs (e.g., formbricks.com/s/a1b2c3).
  • Allow optional custom slugs (e.g., formbricks.com/s/feedback-Q2).

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Once upon a time we had a link shortener, but it wasn't built super well. We're reworking the Link Sharing feature from the ground up. I've added a note in the Figma for the design team to look into it. But this will take a few months until we get there.

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filiabel commented May 6, 2025 •
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Just chiming in with a few thoughts 👍

I needed this myself, due to reasons mentioned above and sending a lot of links via SMS. So I built a super small API with a Redis cache and hosted it at /l/* (l as in link) - sharing the same domain as my Formbricks instance. This has worked super well, and I would love see some of the same functionality integrated into Formbricks.

I think most of these cases perhaps don't need UI features, but a rich set of API endpoints to do CRUD operations on the links would be nice. At least for me personally.

  • Choosing between a random alphanumeric slug (with custom length) or a custom unique slug my-slug.
  • Adding expiry date to link. After this, a message "the link has been expired" should be shown to the user.

Thank you for the great work you are doing with Formbricks 🙌

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feel free to open a PR with your suggestion so we can have a look at it :) I agree that providing functionality already via API until we get to build the UI for it makes sense

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