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New! Restrict destinations
Create an allowlist of domains your short links can point to, preventing unauthorized redirects through your domain.
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Insights on link management, marketing analytics, and the craft of growth — written by the team behind Short.io.
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New! Hotkeys & shortcuts
Single-key shortcuts speed up navigation and common tasks in the Short.io dashboard.
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New! Bulk editing
Select multiple links and bulk edit fields with find-and-replace logic; supports up to 150 links per batch.
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New! Columns customization
Hide link table columns you don't need to focus on the metrics that matter for your workflow.
Resources
Post-mortem on Oct 20th AWS incident
Yesterday our hosting provider, AWS, experienced a long-running incident. It affected thousands of businesses worldwide (including ours). Incidents happen regularly, and we should be prepared for them. Below I explain why this one led to downtime for us. We received the first alerts from our monitoring at 07:18 UTC. It quickly looked like an infrastructure-provider issue, so we checked the AWS Status Page and saw reports of a widespread outage in the us-east-1 region. Within minutes, AWS identi
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Introducing Shortio.cn, our new short link platform for Mainland China
Shortio.cn brings fully licensed, China-based link shortening with data sovereignty and 20ms redirects for mainland users.
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New! PayPal support
PayPal is now a payment option alongside Stripe, expanding checkout flexibility for all plan types.
Guides
AI slug generation: the next step in ensuring privacy
AI slug generation now stays on Short.io's servers instead of passing through third parties, improving privacy while enabling the feature by default.
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Wrapping up: Q2 2025
Q2 2025 shipped 7 major features: conversion tracking, end-to-end encryption, improved Teams UI, robots.txt control, 2x speed boost, MCP support, and mobile SDKs.
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New! Browser, iOS, Android SDKs
SDKs for Browser, iOS, and Android let developers integrate Short.io's API while keeping API keys secure.
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New! Short.io now loads 2x faster
Short.io dashboard pages now load twice as fast, building on previous speed improvements.
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New! MCP support
Connect Short.io to ChatGPT, Claude, VS Code, and other MCP-enabled tools to create and manage links through AI assistants.