Blank links

[SiM]

The new way web page links are auto-texted doesn't work when the web page doesnt have a title.

eg: here

If you quote the post you can see the [url] thing but there is no text in the bit you are meant to be able to read.

[dave87]

don't you now need to do [url=INSERT URL HERE]Text link[/url.]?

[SiM]

Originally Posted by dave87

don't you now need to do [url=INSERT URL HERE]Text link[/url.]?

Its always been that...
but before if you pasted a URL it would be
[url=URL HERE]URL HERE[/url.]

now it is
[url=URL HERE]Title here[/url.]

and if the title is blank there is problems

[SiM]

Some please try posting this without the .

[url=http://www.memtest.org/#downiso]memtest[/url.]

it keeps changing into a blank link, like this:

[url=http://www.memtest][/url.]

Edit: ok it is working now, but I swear it was doing that before!!!

[Funkstar]

There has been a couple of weird cases where certain pages or words would not create valid links. The threads disussing them is probably in this forum somewhere

[kalniel]

Untick the "Automatically retrieve titles from external links " option under your post.

Otherwise if the title of a page is blank then the text will be replaced with blank.

My suggestion would be that Hexus make this unticked by default, rather than ticked as at the moment.

[joshwa]

I'm also having this problem - I guess you don't get the options when you use the quick reply.

[Funkstar]

Yup, not there is the quick reply.

I'm amazed that the code to do this doesn't actually check to see if it is going to return a dud link. Thats going to be another three lines of code. there is a really sloppy developer out there.