Hey, you know what app I would like (and possibly should write)

something that just unshortens short URLs from the Internet and opens the unshortened URL

that way, when I click on a youtu.be link, it wouldn't give me a choice of browser to open it in, and only after that offer to open the Youtube app

it would be one step up from the "auto-choose browser by URL" app we previously discussed

Yeah, as useful as they might be, those shortened URLs are sometimes a real pain in the a...fterlife...

@DanHulme Your [FAQ] link is broken. You should replace it by [help/on-topic].

Have they made that stop working? That's annoying. When they introduced the new help they said the old links would keep working.

Long ago already. I dislike the new organisation as well, IMHO harder to follow and to reference. What still is working is the plain [FAQ]. But try following your own link here and see for yourself.

It ends up on the "about" page, which seems to be a catch-all-404 somehow :)

The "what shouldn't be asked" is no split on two pages: the one I've mentioned above (what is on-topic and what not), plus [help/dont-ask] (what kind of questions I should avoid). It would have more logic to group by "on-topic" and "off-topic" I guess :)

@Izzy Yeah, the list is split: there's one page of bad questions for the whole network (opinion-based, too broad, etc.), and then the on-topic page is site-specific so all the site-specific off-topic reasons are in there.

Ah, I see: so it's a "this site" versus "entire SE network" thing.

yes

the dont-ask list is for bad questions in general, not site-specific off-topic reasons

or at least, that's what I've observed on different sites; I haven't seen an official statement to this effect

Yeah, I'm always unsure concerning the "shopping" questions, whether they're really off-topic on all SE sites. It's not explicitly mentioned.

they're not, it's up to the site

often sites start out accepting them, but they get fed up of list questions and "which is the best" soon enough

bicycles.SE has a lot of product recommendation questions, and they try to be forgiving if they start out opinion-based, but there are a few people who give good, balanced answers even to the opinion-based questions

but that site has a sizeable community of people who know what they're talking about, and not so many questions

it's the other way around for us: lots of questions, and fewer regular answerers

Yeah. I guess people joining a bicycle community are already quite enganged in the topic. Smartphones is a different area...

I don't really know how to respond to this comment: android.stackexchange.com/questions/58061/…