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I've got a social network over at Ning. Overall, I'm pretty impressed with the service. You get a lot for your money, i.e. free. Well, not quite in my case, as I've gone for the ad-free option, but that's my choice.

However, one thing they've got badly wrong is their handling of visitors from URL shortening services, Facebook etc. An earlier post covered my use of su.pr, which I'm finding is a terrific feature. However, if I try and use it, or most other URL shorteners, for a Ning site, you get the rather ugly message shown below.

Not goodTo make matters worse, the "click here" link always takes you to the root of the site, not the linked page! Even worse, Ning provide a "Share" button for pretty much everything on the Networks, yet even their own links return this error! This is just plain stupid.

So, come on Ning. Sort it out, please. If you can't or don't want to, at least remove the Share links, as they're worse than useless.