Displayed patterns should be anchored if not regexps.

[GLundh]

Typical use case:

User A: Hey, what's the long complex link for service xyz?
User B: Hmm.. I think it is in our goalie service.. Let me check.
User B finds the link by searching in Goalie. But only the target is clickable. What User B really wants is to easily share the goalie vanity url, to make it easier for User A to find the link in the future and to spread awareness about goalie.

[AntonFriberg]

So what you would want is an icon for "Copy to Clipboard" that inserts the entire vanity url to clipboard?

[GLundh]

That would be cool. Though making it an anchor link is fine too. I can then right click -> copy if I want it in the clipboard..

Regexps patterns are not really vanity urls or linkable, so those should probably be just text (like today).

[AntonFriberg]

So something like this?

[GLundh]

Exactly like that.

[AntonFriberg]

What about using something like this to create strings that match the regex? This would make anchor links possible for any pattern. https://fent.github.io/randexp.js/

[GLundh]

:D Awesome. But can you control the length on it? So we get decently short urls out of it?

[AntonFriberg]

Yes! The length could be exposed as a configurable environment variable.
https://github.com/fent/randexp.js#default-range