Change to vBcode?

What did you change in the forum code?

I've noticed that something is messing up attempts to provide inline hyperlinks in forum messages. This seems to have started a couple of weeks ago. Below, I tried to provide an example of how the code is messed up, but since the 'code' tags don't work either, I can't. Could this be fixed please? It's very irritating.



For instance, previously I would provide an inline link by typing
[CODE]
pasting in the link, then typing

Code:

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]<word-to-be-linked>

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E.g.:

But if I try that now the linked word vanishes, and on editing my message I see that the vbcode has been garbled and converted to something like

you mean the automatic link naming?

btw you didnt finish your post. I dont see no example of what you mean in your last sentence. I can only guess the vBcode has messed with it :)
Madduck had problems posting a Crysis download link the other time and I've had that problem a few times. Just have to edit and put it in again.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by moogle

you mean the automatic link naming?

btw you didnt finish your post. I dont see no example of what you mean in your last sentence. I can only guess the vBcode has messed with it :)

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Yep, I gave up on getting the code tag to work properly.

For example

Code:

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[url

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works, but if I add an '=' to the end of the bit inside the code tags it turns into
[code][url=[/code]

Use [url= XXXX] display name [ /url

Alternatively, type the word you want, then highlight it and click on the hyperlink button and paste the hyperlink into the popup box. Does the same thing as schmuck posted but is sometimes easier :)

Ahah, look at this

The following works:
test
But if I change the word to be hyperlinked ('test' in the above) to 'blog' (and that is all that's changed):

It vanishes, and editing the msg reveals it's been changed to {url=http://blog}{/url} where '{'means a square bracket

There's a bug in the forum code.

just testing

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test



You're right, that is very weird. Well spotted :)

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Perhaps a better place would be here?

Interesting point though, i did notice the new hyperlink autonaming, so far no problems..

seems to have been fixed?