Comment Link Issues?

[grayestofghosts]

Whenever I try to post a link in a comment, it appends the whole journal URL to the URL I used to create the link, instead of going directly to the linked page. I don’t remember this ever being an issue before? Did something break, or am I doing something wrong?

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[wychwood]

Just saw this wandering past - sometimes that can happen if you've not put the entire link, so make sure you've included the https:// at the beginning for instance. If that doesn't fix it, put an example in a reply to this comment and I'll see if I can spot any other issues!

[grayestofghosts]

Hmm, the last example I posted was this post: https://rmc28.dreamwidth.org/1703830.html?thread=6262166#cmt6262166

When I click it, it creates a URL to the page https://rmc28.dreamwidth.org/“https://synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html”, which of course doesn’t exist.

[wychwood]

I think I can see the problem - your "broken link" example has curly quotes in it instead of straight ones, which I suspect is causing DW not to realise that it is a proper link. Are you copying & pasting from Microsoft Word or something similar? Try posting a link in a reply to this comment but switching out the quote marks for the regular kind, and see if that fixes it.

[grayestofghosts]

Journal Link

The weird thing is that I wasn’t copying and pasting from Word? I was just using my iPhone to post comments. The only part I copy and pasted was the bare URL.

EDIT: It seems to do it now, even though when I look at my comment in the editor there’s no curly quotes.

[wychwood]

Haha this is just cursed!

OK so the syntax should be exactly:

< a href="https://grayestofghosts.dreamwidth.org/">Journal Link</ a>

(only without the space in front of the a each time) just to confirm.

When I copied your "journal link" above, and pasted it in, it's showing up as:

https://www.dreamwidth.org/%E2%80%9Chttps://grayestofghosts.dreamwidth.org/%E2%80%9D

Which still looks like it's the quotes it doesn't like, even though they're not curly this time. I think it must be something to do with how your phone is handling the quotes.

Can you try in a different web browser / on another computer / etc to see if that fixes it?

[wychwood]

PS: I found this link on how to turn off smart punctuation on an iphone - maybe try that and see if it fixes the issue? You can turn it back on again afterwards if you want, but at least you can rule it in/out as a thing!

[grayestofghosts]

Okay. Let's try again, I turned off smart punctuation this time:

Journal Link

Edit: that seems to be it. I wonder if that's a new thing from Apple? I think it worked before. I was about to try to figure out how to contact DW about this issue. Extremely cursed.

[wychwood]

Yep, that works! Maybe an update / setting change / something, who knows. But that should give you a workaround, at least.