Error posting links

Silk

MSE_Joe wrote: »

Test posting http://www.bbc.co.uk http://www.google.com http://www.moneysavingexpert.com

Leave it with me

It's not just new posts where the links don't work, I've just checked some posts from the past on the site and they don't work either.

marleyboy

"Ooh look - A NUT. Pass me the spanner and lets see what happens!", "Oh gosh look at all those wires, lets just wiggle them and see if they help the threads go quicker." ,"Oh darn it, which wire did a needlessly wiggle this time?".

canterswest

It is unfortunate if MSE has damaged its own website trying to do something belatedly about the spam.

Don't give up if your first ideas don't work as it clearly can't be left any longer for unpaid volunteers to clear up.

fermi

MSE_Joe wrote: »

Leave it with me

Thank you.

One-Eye

fermi wrote: »

Basically if you do anything where the forum has to parse the link to format it, then the glitch kicks in and produces the wrong link to the current post.

Only way to get it to do it correctly is manually format the link in source mode so the forum never has to do anything, so doesn't change it.

I thought that was close.

but....

On THIS THREAD (should be 5277807) when logged in (old design) it sends me back to the thread, when not logged in (new design) the link works fine!

So it looks as though the link is written away OK, but the error actually occurs when it is displayed.

fermi

The original link in that thread works OK here logged in or not, old version or new.

Yes, each page is generated from the db on the fly, posting or displaying, so errors could occur either side.

fermi

https://www.google.co.uk

test

fermi

That worked OK now ^^^

Dare I hope that has been fixed?

fermi

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5278038

fermi

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4988866