Do you guy know that there is a lot of short query name like "f" in web development?

We are discourage from using single character variable name and the query key is too short. Is there any specific reason for using short query name?

does not compute

I've never seen single-letter API endpoints.

@RobbieGM

For example https://www.facebook.com/messages/t and https://fanfiction.net/s/12970642/

Maybe they want to keep URLs short so they look nicer when shared. Like Reddit's r/* and u/*

Even Youtube have it https://youtube.com/watch/...

I think that "v" mean video here but who actually know what that "v" actually mean.

@RobbieGM

I think you are right. It is actually for url shortening.

I actually found out that even though there is no url character limit in theory most popular browser in older times don't support long url. Therefore you have to make a short url.

Link to reference

https://stackoverflow.com/questions...

It is interesting to find that in the answer of SO (link above) some feature such as CDN and bookmark don't work on long url.