!@%$!ing auto-generated url tags.

[YaRness]

watch what happens when i type a harmless list of www's seperated by commas
www.foo.com, (http://www.foo.com,) www.yar.net, (http://www.yar.net,) www.baz.org, (http://www.baz.org,) www.snafu.com, (http://www.snafu.com,) foo.bong.org


notice the DAMN COMMAS that got stuck in the url (and the fact that foo.bong.org didn't get auto-mutilated).

PLEASE disable this redundant 'feature'. if i WANT a damn link, and i'm too dense to read the UBB code page, that's what the fscking "Instant UBB Code" is for.

:mad:

just bloody irritating is all.

[ 12 February 2001: Message edited by: YaRness ]

[mangeli]

Just put a space in front of the comma

web page (http://www.tinyminds.com), me (http://me.com)

[YaRness]

Originally posted by mangeli:
Just put a space in front of the comma

web page (http://www.tinyminds.com), me (http://me.com)

no, no, no.

that is NOT what i am referring to

type with me kids:

w-w-w-.-w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r-.-c-o-m

take out the dashes and you get

www.whatever.com (http://www.whatever.com) <--- appears as a link AFTER hitting the submit button


i am not talking about typing in, or using instant UBB code to generate, [ URL ] tags to PURPOSELY add a link. i am talking about links that are CREATED by the UBB SCRIPTS WITHOUT the user adding any indication that he wants it to be a link.

[YaRness]

and just for more clarification, add a comma.

so type:
w-w-w-.-w-h-a-t-e-v-e-r-.-c-o-m-,

take out the dashes and you get
www.whatever.com, (http://www.whatever.com,) <--- appears as a link AFTER hitting the submit button


(oh, and i couldn't edit my previous post, all the text above the code tag was missing when i tried to edit it. i guess i should put that in the bug forum.)

[mangeli]

Gotcha.

I didn't realize that UBB had put in the auto tags... I thought you still had to add them yourself....

[YaRness]

it's irritating, as shown above, but even more irritating if you type out a long *** url like
www.thisdomaindoesntexist.com/script?5093450j345kj2332453245+34953jl45k2j23l5kn3 2l5knm23l5alksdjlkasjdlkj32l4knm2l4km2l3m4242l3m42 lm4k2l3m4k2l3m42lkm4l2km42lkm42lm4k2l4 (http://www.thisdomaindoesntexist.com/script?5093450j345kj2332453245+34953jl45k2j23l5kn3 2l5knm23l5alksdjlkasjdlkj32l4knm2l4km2l3m4242l3m42 lm4k2l3m4k2l3m42lkm4l2km42lkm42lm4k2l4)

and it turns it into a useless URL that screws up the message table and makes it look all ugly and ****.

not to mention creating links inside code tags. HELLO?!@ wtf is the point of code tags then.

i need to get in on one of these open-source BB projects, and get it done right. it's be nice to have that kind of time.

[ 13 February 2001: Message edited by: YaRness ]

[Craig McPherson]

I think they're kind of handy, actually. A lot of times, people won't manually URL'ize their URLs, and I like to be able to click a link to go to it even if the poster didn't think to do that. It's handier than copy-pasting. It would be nice if it could be turned off on a per-post basis for one of those few instances when it shouldn't be done. There could be a checkbox at the bottom of the post page for it, for example. Most of the time, I think it's cool, though, just be sure to put a space between the end of your URL and any punctuation mark, to make sure it doesn't get included.

[YaRness]

it would definitely be sufficient to have a checkbox, and/or preferably a preference setting to disable auto-urls like that similar to the smiley disabling checkbox.

or just a general "make this whole post un-processed plain text" button (what code tags SHOULD do)