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HTML links, generally those created within the network on questions, answers, or the site itself.

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What I propose has been done to instances of other shortlink services on SO/SE already. See "related reading" below. "bit.ly" links were banned in 2016, so we aren't getting new ...
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Jira has a nice feature which shows the icon (favicon), title, and meta thumbnail of the page (if available) that the link or URL is pointing to. A real example issue in Jira containing many links: ...
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As users have pointed out, many links created by Google’s url shortening service (goo.gl) are going to stop functioning as of August 25, 2025. There are thousands of these links in questions, answers, ...
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Steps to reproduce Go to any info page for tags (where the tag wiki is), e.g., the [regex] tag info/wiki page. Click the Frequent button to see questions with most links. Expected result: You go to ...
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During reviewing a question on Staging Ground, the asker referring to a link where the code can be found, but the question didn't contain any link. This happens very often, so I wanted to add a ...
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Steps to reproduce: Enable new editor via your Preferences Select the WYSIWYG mode Create a link to meta.stackoverflow.com Press enter and navigate away from the link The result is a spinner in ...
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Google URL Shortener links will stop working on 25 August 2025. There are about 2600 questions and answers (assuming we trust the SO search engine) that contain links to this service. http:​//goo.gl ...
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In the dialog to flag a post, the description for the "Rude or abusive" reason is: A reasonable person would find this content inappropriate for respectful discourse. That link points to ...
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We read Should clicking the "Modified today" [or in fact any day] link show me something? The question seems to reload, but no new information is displayed. That's because it links to &...
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The text on some badges is appearing blue colored, making it difficult to read. Is this a new feature?
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I noticed this morning that the "Newest Badge" text in the Activity tab in user profile (including other user's Activity tab and both Meta/Main Site) is barely visible. Looks like its due to ...
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It appears that Stack Overflow have pushed another change to the themes to the site (probably (confirmed to be) in the name of "accessibility"), however, it appears that on meta the chosen ...
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Here is an interesting situation. Here we are in the Roundcube mail reader. We are looking at the text/plain part of this multipart MIME message. Alas, the preview cutoff happened right in the middle ...
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When high contrast is enabled, usually all links are underlined. Except for the footer where they are not underlined. Except for "Cookie settings" which is underlined.
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I came across this suggested edit, and here is a screenshot: The edit simply updates the link from a specific version, to the "current" version. The old link is already working. As the new ...
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In the live preview, a raw hyperlink is hyperlinked if it is prefaced with a whitespace or a punctuation character. In the rendered post, a raw hyperlink is hyperlinked only if prefaced with a ...
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In chat, I pasted a link to a Collectives article comment, and expected the chat message to expand into a oneboxed (quoted, properly linked and attributed) copy of the actual text of the comment. I ...
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I noticed this edit which I rejected had the edit comment as: ATTENTION. the link redirects you to a scam slot machine site Sure enough, it does. I flagged this post in question for a mod to review....
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In the same way a YouTube video of URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vqcf2GGiczU has a permanent shorter URL (for easier sharing) youtu.be/Vqcf2GGiczU, is there a similar thing for posts? Example ...
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I adore that you can write a link to a Stack Exchange question in a post like: https://stackoverflow.com/q/1452721/5740428 and it automatically expands to Why is "using namespace std;" ...
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Back in the earliest days of PHP, people ran various localized mirrors of the PHP website, including documentation. The main site has always lived at https://www.php.net but mirrors lived under ...
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See comment below: Already reported on meta. I made an edit to a Super User question. I don't have enough rep to auto-edit, so it went through the approval process and, later, was approved. (I don't ...
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Following this Stack Overflow answer, I added a named anchor ElimRestErrs to a heading in an answer I posted: # <a name="ElimRestErrs">Eliminating the rest of the errors</a> The ...
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This post is a request for the Stack Overflow team to use the internal link rewriting tool described in Meta Stack Exchange answer How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on a site? to bulk ...
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Do we ever bulk update URLs? The Java Bug Database URL format appears to have changed from http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6754672 to https://bugs.java.com/bugdatabase/view_bug?...
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I see a link to this post: How can I convert my Java program to an .exe file? Here it is: As you can see, the question is named "how can i convert" with lower cases but the question have ...
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As you can see above (top of the question), when there is superscript text within a URL, the underline is at the wrong height. example It should be at the superscript height.
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I just noticed that the URL for questions on Teams doesn't include the title slug, unlike on the public Q&A platform, e.g.: https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/{TEAM_SLUG}/questions/{QUESTION_ID}. I ...
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Is it possible to have an internal link in a question/answer? I mean, the equivalent of for a full explanation, please see <a href="#note1">note no. 1</a>. Bla bla bla ... --...
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Documentation on how to write a good answer states: Provide context for links Links to external resources are encouraged, but please add context around the link so your fellow users will have some ...
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For the Java tag, I can use java, i.e., [tag:java], but I want to use a composite tag, e.g., for both, duration and java which would open the page https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/duration+...
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I am trying to copy the link to my Stack Overflow profile but I can't find it. How can I copy my profile link?
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The contrast difference when a link is visited is completely unusable. Here's two questions side-by-side, where one is visited and the other isn't: For comparison, here's Ecosia: And here's two ...
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If I select some text in a post and try to turn it into a link (CTRL + L) the render isn't formatting it correctly: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/scripting/developer/module/how-to-write-...
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Whilst quoting a super useful answer in a reply, I enclosed the URL in double-quotes "https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73070115/why-is-the-middleware-not-processed-on-404-page-in-django", ...
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On all the Stack Exchange sites (except Stack Overflow), I've noticed that when you scroll down to the footer of the page, you see a list of links to the Tour, Help, Chat, Contact, and Feedback pages, ...
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I'm trying to link to another user's answer here on Meta. There used to be 2 ways to obtain a direct link to any question / answer: If I recall correctly, there used to be a "share" link ...
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In the screenshot below, both links have been visited, but the color of the second link still remains a darker blue. I think this is fixed in light mode, but I couldn't really tell because my eyes ...
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I am working in Stack Overflow for Teams - Enterprise (hosted in my company). The issue below is encountered when entering longer posts, in the form of articles. Markdown has no standard defined to ...
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I initially edited this question because of what I thought was a dead link. But I realize now that it's not the problem, and the problem remains: If I click the link on SO, I get a "Page not ...
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In comments, I frequently find myself linking to other questions, usually because something is very similar to a frequently-asked question but I'm not quite confident enough to deploy the dupehammer. ...
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Links to "modified x hours ago" (as well as equivalent links for asked and presumably answered) redirect to main instead of the team. This is a link-based regression of this bug. No other ...
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The 'Articles' section under the Activity tab simply informs the user that they haven't created any articles: The 'Followed posts' section also adds a hyperlink to the meta post that introduced the ...
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All links in the page are underlined when using high contrast mode - it does not matter whether it is light or dark. Here are examples: A question - notice how the reputation and badges at the top are ...
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I just had a bunch of edits by Community popping up in my inbox which replaced http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc with https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc What is the reason for that? Are the former ones ...
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A few days ago I noticed a bug in the messages of Jobs when sharing the URL for searching by user tags. The same problem happens when sharing tag links in the chat of LinkedIn.
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In Stack Overflow Jobs when sharing a link to a tag such as https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=user:5675325+[php] then the last square bracket isn't considered as part of the url In this case, the ...
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Until recently, a complex query was possible. But now, I get as response Bad Request - Invalid URL. When I shorten the query it still works. More specifically this long query doesn't work on SO, but ...
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I just tried to get a link to one of the comments that were added to an article but I noticed that the comment timestamp is not clickable: Then, I tried to construct the URL myself by getting the ...
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The close message for "needs debugging details" contains two links. These links can be helpful, but the placements of these links do not make sense, and looks like an editing mistake. The ...
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