testing a link

JohnnyK

...I cringe every time an "outage" is announced. I stopped getting anouncements ever since the "outage" of January 2020. I can no longer log into this site with my MacBook since the recent"outage"; however' I can still log into this site on my Windows PC.

I used to be able to simply past links into my text and they would work just fine. That stopped working properly since the last outage. Now I need to use the link insert feature and add the BB code. 

I cringe every time an "outage" is announced. I stopped getting anouncements ever since the "outage" of January 2020. I can no longer log into this site with my MacBook since the recent"outage"; however' I can still log into this site on my Windows PC.

Rob Gronovius

okay, I figured it out that you must add BB code in there manually. type "[ url]" before and "[/ url]" after the link and it becomes clickable. (without the quotation marks and and space inside the brackets). 

That's interesting! So if we use the Insert Link tool, we have to add the url tags to the string?

I never use that feature-I just paste links right into the body of my reply.  But regarding the url tags, I have found that I need to delete them from the image links that I get from Postimage (and before that, from Photobucket).  If I did not, then the forum's pages would toggle all subsequent text into bold and underscore formats.  You may have seen this effect in posts around the forum.  For some reason, the page code can't handle those links successfully.

That worked perfectly.  Thank you.

okay, I figured it out that you must add BB code in there manually. type "[ url]" before and "[/ url]" after the link and it becomes clickable. (without the quotation marks and and space inside the brackets).

http://cs.finescale.com/fsm/tools_techniques_and_reference_materials/f/13/t/179536.aspx

 It shows up as blue when I try to post it, but it isn't clickable when I hit submit.