Spokavriel wrote: It really sucks that the way the links get shortened makes the title impossible to read. The link still works perfectly enclosing everything before the title in the {url=yadda yadda} bit enclosing the next part before a {/url} block. At least then it doesn't require looking at link properties or actually going first to read it.
Sorry I just had to vent about unreadable links. No offense and thanks for the link.
Actually... it seems it is related to how BBCode is interpreted in this forum software. Officially, strict BBCode interpretation is not supposed to even recognize a link outside of it being in proper tags, that is part of the stanadard. And thus it should not place a valid hyperlink under it (in most browsers, this is a single line, and allows a single click jump).
Forum software using BBCode, including Invision, Icy Phoenix, and PHPBB among others all use what I call a *relaxed* form of the BBCode standards code, and I've no clue if there is a official name for this aspect. They all allow the members to enter a raw link, and then the forum attempts to resolve it into a hyperlink if it can.
The problem is not the fact the forums allow it when they should not per the standard... the problem is that this forum software since the upgrade auto defaults the description part to keep the length below a certain predefined maximum.
This is all easily proven... take the prior post for example, and enter it in any off line BBCode editor... I use one by Kyrsoft, but any should do... the links if not in proper tags are not hyperlinked.
So...
User types:
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http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2221198/1/The_Sorcerous_Saotome
Forum Outputs:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2221198/1/T ... us_SaotomeAuto interpretation *should* have made that equivelent to typing:
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[url]http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2221198/1/The_Sorcerous_Saotome[/url]
Forum Outputs:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2221198/1/The_Sorcerous_SaotomeOr alternatively, a wordier varient of the same correct command would be equivelent to typing:
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[url=http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2221198/1/The_Sorcerous_Saotome]http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2221198/1/The_Sorcerous_Saotome[/url]
Forum Outputs:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2221198/1/The_Sorcerous_SaotomeBut the forum does neither of the expected versions. Because of the length limitation (seemingly in and around 55 characters), the closest would be equivelent to typing:
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[url=http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2221198/1/The_Sorcerous_Saotome]http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2221198/1/T ... us_Saotome[/url]
Forum Outputs:
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/2221198/1/T ... us_SaotomeWhen I first noticed the issue on this forum back when it got upgraded after the crash, I researched it,. If it is properly tagged, for the most part it leaves it intact. This is due to the fact with the tags the 'URL=' portion of the tag, unless overridden, is always blank, forcing the system to use the description portion as the link name.
Upon learning the above, I immediately changed my generated BBCode format to be true to standard. While it made the files a tiny bit larger, I viewed the benefits to far outweight the space.
In any case... some links for my above named stories. So we can at least somewhat call this close to topic.
R-MULTI 'Sailor Jupiter' by Daniel Jess Gibson - [Dld Date=06/06/2009] - [Dld Size=2131kb] - [Dld Files=45] - [Status=Not Complete]
R-NGE 'Evangelion Heart of a Warrior' by Demon Eyes Laharl - [Dld Date=08/21/2009] - [Dld Size=315kb] - [Dld Files=9] - [Status=Not Complete]
R-MSN 'Chaos in the year 2196' by Light02 - [Dld Date=12/04/2005] - [Dld Size=81kb] - [Dld Files=3] - [Status=Inactive]
R-HH 'Wild Honor' by MageOhki2 - [Dld Date=04/29/2009] - [Dld Size=167kb] - [Dld Files=4] - [Status=Not Complete]
R-MULTI 'Chaos Factor' by Nemo Blank - [Dld Date=06/22/2008] - [Dld Size=428kb] - [Dld Files=14] - [Status=Inactive]
For following, author made two versions, not same (I redownloaded the alternate back in 08, much older than that though):
RANMA 'Will You be my Fiance Alternate' by Ammadeau - [Dld Date=12/17/2008] - [Dld Size=598kb] - [Dld Files=3] - [Status=Not Complete]
RANMA 'Will You be my Fiance' by Ammadeau - [Dld Date=04/19/2001] - [Dld Size=626kb] - [Dld Files=10] - [Status=Inactive]