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Jason
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The forum will automatically convert text that looks like a URL into a link. There are several cases where this breaks. I do not have a complete summary, but have been "bitten" by this bug a few times trying to post links both to internal and external content.

The latest issue was a forum post. The link to the forum post is:

 https://www.yamahasynth.com/forum/recall-buffer,-yes-or-no 

Notice the comma after "recall-buffer". This character is not properly parsed. Instead of being included in the link, the comma is parsed as white space so the comma and everything after is not included in the link. Here is the result:

https://www.yamahasynth.com/forum/recall-buffer,-yes-or-no

... the workaround is to escape the comma so the broken link parser can handle this. This is hardly something that should be expected a user handle.

 https://www.yamahasynth.com/forum/recall-buffer%2C-yes-or-no 

Which results in:

https://www.yamahasynth.com/forum/recall-buffer%2C-yes-or-no

And does work.

Can the forum link parser work to cover more cases and stop seeing valid URL characters as white space?

Also, throughout the forum - links still are not as easily identifiable as previous when links were underlined. This has been flagged previously. The articles/blogs are very bad because the text style does not even change for links (in most blogs and articles).

Current Yamaha Synthesizers: Montage Classic 7, Motif XF6, S90XS, MO6, EX5R

 
Posted : 19/12/2018 5:09 pm
Jason
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I tried to edit the previous post to change a section - but it would not let me change the text telling me the edited message was flagged as spam. The edit is as follows:

Also, throughout yamahasynth.com - links still are not as easily identifiable as previous when links were underlined. This has been flagged previously. The articles/blogs are very bad because the text style does not even change for links (in most blogs and articles).

I did not mean to narrow the scope to just the forum as mostly I am talking about other sections of the site.

Current Yamaha Synthesizers: Montage Classic 7, Motif XF6, S90XS, MO6, EX5R

 
Posted : 19/12/2018 5:13 pm
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Jason,
Thank you for the feedback and we appreciate your participation. We are looking into the issue identified.

Best,
Amy - Community Coordinator

 
Posted : 29/12/2018 11:35 am
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