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URL Shortening breaking links when editing post 

Post#1 » by pbj » Thu Feb 26, 2015 2:41 pm

Bonjour, mes ami

C'est une probleme avec le URL Shortening automatic function...

For example, I posted this link:
https://www.google.com/flights/#search; ... YYZ0AA1610

And at first it was working correctly, shortened with elipses, then when I try to edit the post, it doesn't copy the full URL to the edit, but the shortened version with the elipses, like you can see above now. Here's the original link:

https://www.google.com/flights/#search; ... YYZ0AA1610

There is another problem as well:
- My french sucks.
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Re: URL Shortening breaking links when editing post 

Post#2 » by pbj » Wed Mar 4, 2015 7:24 pm

pbj wrote:Bonjour, mes ami

C'est une probleme avec le URL Shortening automatic function...

For example, I posted this link:
https://www.google.com/flights/#search; ... YYZ0AA1610

And at first it was working correctly, shortened with elipses, then when I try to edit the post, it doesn't copy the full URL to the edit, but the shortened version with the elipses, like you can see above now. Here's the original link:

https://www.google.com/flights/#search; ... YYZ0AA1610

There is another problem as well:
- My french sucks.


This also happens when quoting posts with URLs in them, as you can see above, the 2nd link is now broken but it works in the original post.
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Post#3 » by Devin 1L » Wed Mar 25, 2015 5:01 pm

I actually came to this forum to make a suggestion regarding links.

I see far too many broken links these days, and they're always of the automatic shortened variety. I don't even bother fixing them anymore as they are so frequent.

It would be nice if we could get rid of this function.
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Post#4 » by Howard Mass » Thu Apr 23, 2015 8:39 am

We're working to fix this problem.

It is a pain for me too and hopefully this is resolved soon.
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Post#5 » by Captain_Obvious » Sun Apr 26, 2015 3:06 pm

This is pretty bad for over two months already

viewtopic.php?f=40&t=1253356&start=120#p42694837

My workaround is to put links into URL tags manually.
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Post#6 » by Howard Mass » Sat May 9, 2015 2:31 pm

I've been shown hat does work and again, were working on getting some help here.
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Post#7 » by Devin 1L » Sat May 16, 2015 3:37 pm

Hopefully this is soon.

It's such a prevalent problem.
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Post#8 » by Howard Mass » Thu Jun 11, 2015 8:19 pm

I totally agree.

We have someone working on this and hope it can be resolved soon.
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