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Source tracking

There is now tracking of url uses between social clicks and qr code clicks. This is done via a flag in the query parameter.

See merge request !11

Hashid generation

Use Hashids to generate shortUrls.

Right now we will hit collisions at a 50% rate at 10k urls assuming perfect randomness. Using hashids reduces the chance of collisions as the number of urls increase.

Hashids are guarenteed unique. The downside being that as the number of urls get larger, the hashids will get longer as well. The rate is exponential though with roughly number of characters as log base alphabet length of (id + seed).

See merge request !10

Upgrade to django 1.7

You'll need to do a pip install -r and python manage.py migrate after this

See merge request !8

Clean up expired links

Add manage.py command and cronjob to clean up expired short links. Fixes issue #3.

See merge request !7