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Tagged with chat hyperlinks
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No popup for links in mobile chat: Can't copy/preview/open in a new tab
I long tap on links and it usually looks like this:
But in mobile chat it does something like this, where the link follows my finger and doesn't allow me to actually look at it (like many people, my ...
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I can get an already-logged-in window clicking on a post link in chat, but not in another post. I have to re-login a lot; by design? (Safari private)
I use private browsing if/when I use macOS + Safari.
When I right-click a link in one SE post to another SE post and open it in a new tab I must log in to SE in that tab all over again. If I don't ...
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What sorts of links to outside sites are appropriate on chat in particular?
I've been told there may be some sort of policy against linking to outside chats from SE chats. Is this true? In general, are there guidelines on which sort of links to outside sites are appropriate ...
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Extra slash added to the chat room URLs in the side bar [duplicate]
There is a extra slash added to the chat room URLs in the side bar. This is not causing any redirection issue or 404 not found error.
Just observed it and want to notify to the development team about ...
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Why wasn't this link in the chat made clickable? [duplicate]
https://chat.stackexchange.com/transcript/message/54730117#54730117:
Why wasn't this link in the chat made clickable?
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Clicking on full site loads mobile chat again
I was switching from mobile chat to full site to upload an image on chat room on my mobile. Clicking on full site still gives mobile chat after a page refresh.
I tried several times but the result ...
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3DPrinting question URLs aren't parsed in chat [duplicate]
In chat rooms, questions from the 3DPrinting SE site aren't parsed correctly and just sit there as ugly URLs.
To illustrate here is a screenshot
It can be seen that the "Steering problem" ...
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If a link title contains a URL, the link is rendered incorrectly in the chat transcript
TL;DR: If you use the [text](URL) syntax in chat and the text part contains a link, then this is rendered correctly in the chatroom, but not in the chat transcript.
I am aware that it is rather rare ...
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Starred chat message with a comment is not parsed well
This chat message contains a link to the comment of the post. Chat message is starred, and in the starboard link not correctly parsed:
In particular clickable part of the link refers to the ...
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"Show full text" links in live chat no longer expand and instead redirects to the raw data
When someone sends a large amount of a text as a single message in chat, it normally comes up with a 'show full text' link which lets you expand the message so you can see it in it's entirety.
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Page for creating new chat rooms still links to the old /faq page
The page for creating a new chat room includes the following message.
Rooms are each associated with a specific site in the Stack Exchange Network, and are expected to be on the same topic as that ...
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Links truncated in chat
Long links in multiline chat messages will be truncated using (show full text...). This will cause the link to point to the wrong address (namely, it will truncate the location of the link and the ...
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Tag wildcards `*` break URL parsing in chat
URLs containing tag wildcard characters * do not work properly in chat.
This means that a chat message containing the URL https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java* will redirect to https://...
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Profile link not working for Area51 users in chat [duplicate]
I recently tried to visit a person's profile from chat room.
I clicked the link to his profile(points to area51) and the link is dead.
The link points to discuss.area51.stackexchange.com and the ...
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Direct link to full vs. mobile chat
Is there a direct URL that can be used to link to the full and mobile versions of chat?
The "mobile" link in the bottom does some JavaScript stuff and looks like it makes a POST request to /mobile/on ...
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Enable link markdown to work in room descriptions
Please enable link markdown in room descriptions. Currently links in room descriptions just appear as plaintext. So when I tried to add a reference to site rules at the end of a chat room's ...
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No chat rooms showing for Area 51 (change URL to add "meta")
The chat link from the Stack Exchange (menu) bar or from the bottom panel is not showing any chat rooms for Area 51:
Even the "show frozen/deleted rooms" button doesn't show any rooms.
I ...
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Automatically detect the title of question from link in chat
We know the SE has a useful feature of automatically showing the title of question when a link of question is written in the body of question.
For example: https://meta.stackexchange.com/q/288002 ...
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In chat, links surrounded in square brackets are rendered incorrectly
In chat, when you surround a link in square brackets ([ ]), the left square bracket gets rendered as part of the link, while the right bracket does not:
[[Test](http://google.com/)]
produces this:
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Short post links with a trailing slash don't onebox in chat
Post links of the form http://{site}/q/{PostId}/ and http://{site}/a/{PostId}/ do not onebox in chat. I think they should. (Origin of such links: I'm in the habit of deleting UserId from short links, ...
user315433
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Chat links expose a pretty serious JavaScript exploit
So I learned something rather surprising today and it's pretty scary. I'm actually stunned neither Chrome/Google, nor Mozilla, have plugged it. First, the logistics of how I ran across this
I linked ...
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Inconsistent auto-linking in transcript
I was looking through a chat transcript when I came upon a link that was not auto-hyperlinked. I did some more digging in the Sandbox and it appears that only in message one boxes, links are not auto-...
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Link markdown in chat fails if the link contains a url [duplicate]
The chat markdown parser fails to properly create a link when the link itself contains multiple "http://". Example
Markdown:
View older versions of [StackOverflow](https://web.archive.org/web/*/...
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Room description isn't formatted on kick page
The page that a user sees when they are kicked from chat shows the room's description, but links in the description are not clickable. We want users who are kicked to read our rules, which are linked ...
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Markdown and url recognition - Recognizing too much
I noticed this issue after doing some tests in the Sandbox chat room related to this other bug alert. I was playing around with some weird fake and badly formatted urls until I came out with this one.
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posting links with dollars in chat will not including anything after (and including) the dollar [duplicate]
This might be a collision with markdown support in chat, but it gets very annoying when you want to post images from e.g. ebay as they almost always contain the dollar sign, e.g.
http://i.ebayimg.com/...
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In chat, a oneboxed question/answer goofs out with a bad link when it's within a oneboxed message [duplicate]
This is a little confusing to see and explain. Let's take this chat message. Someone posted a link to an answer in the Tavern, and that link got oneboxed:
This works fine. There's nothing amiss here.
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Does the link to the chat appear only on the answered questions? Why, if so?
For example, I see "X people chatting" link in this post:
Also, wtf I'm the last poster in the Tavern? And why last message 54 mins ago? Clearly wrong. Last post was from rene and definitely not ...
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Can we add the ability to place multiple links in chat event schedules?
The Space Exploration site has many chat events, all based on live broadcasts of events like launches, arrival of probes at mission targets, mission press conferences, major lectures, and so on.
Right ...
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Multiline link formatting [duplicate]
The [title](url) is no longer formatted when the chat post is multi-lined
Examples: https://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/message/22017116#22017116, https://chat.stackoverflow.com/transcript/...
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Please link to chat room when mod moves comment to chat
In a recent discussion about a question, a moderator moved the numerous comments to chat, and left a comment with a link to the room.
However, a bunch of us were left wondering why there isn't an ...
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Links to the Wayback Machine are broken in chat transcript
This chat message is an example of the bug. It looks like this in regular chat:
That link points to:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080409050311/http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/daryn.lehoux/...
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Chat https redirects to http
Yes, yes, I know https isn't officially supported.
If you go to a chat room link like https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/1 (note that there isn't a room name), it would automatically redirect the ...
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Special symbols break oneboxing in chat
It appears that the onebox (and link-detecting, for that matter) mechanism is broken by special symbols (see here).
For example, the URL https://stackapps.com/questions/2177/stackexchange™-...
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Missing trailing slash in markup of links in comments and chat
I noticed a bug in the markdown of hyperlinks in comments and chat with a trailing slash. The link will work correctly, but the markup shows the link without the trailing slash.
So if you write ...
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How to post a link into Stack Exchange chat so that its details get shown?
When other people post a link to their question in Stack Exchange chat, they get a rich link with wonderful decorations, tags, description, excerpt, and large fonts:
When I try to do the same, I just ...
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The URL for the default image for a newly created feed user has too many slashes
When you create a new feed in a room, the feed user's image URL is set to the following:
http:////cdn-chat.sstatic.net/chat/Img/feed-icon32.png
That's an awful lot of slashes at the beginning there....
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The linked content on chat servers isn't protocol relative
The page at https://chat.stackexchange.com/ has all the stylesheets and scripts hard bound to use http:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://cdn-chat.sstatic.net/chat/css/chat.stackexchange.com.css?...
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Add a link to the chat user pop-out menu: "user profile on this site"
See this link?
This link doesn't presently exist. I'm here to request its addition, so that visiting someone's profile on the same site as the one you're chatting on won't be a potentially long path.
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Be able to specify a particular room in the chat magic link
From Add data.SE style "magic links" to comments there are several very useful magic links that show up in comments. In particular, there's [chat].
[chat] – link to the current site's ...
user213963
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Add a [deleted] tag to links in chat that are 10k+
When in chat, there's quite a few links flying around that are deleted, and only viewable (well, without the edit trick) by 10k+ rep users or those with access to mod tools. Since the links are ...
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Could we please update the link to the Wheel of Blame on the Tavern?
Following the link to the Wheel of Blame script welded on to the Tavern currently results in this:
Could the linked script be updated per the gentleman's request? The script is widely available on ...
user200500
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Link in chat message not expanded?
I was just trying out chat for the first time and because I wanted to make a comment on an answer I started my message with a link to that answer. I typed: http://sustainability.stackexchange.com/a/...
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Chat / markdown do not parse links or tags with an asterisk in them
I use the tag php* as a favourite, to catch all of the badly (version specific) tagged PHP questions. When trying to link this tag in chat with [tag:php*] that tag is not parsed.
Also when pasting a ...
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Pasting links into chat won't support "Announcer" badge [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Chat onebox kills referral link
When I post a link into chat (as in xttp://security.stackexchange.com/q/24810/396) , in a single line by itself, the chat software will ...
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Expand links to Stack Exchange questions to show titles in chat when starred
Sometimes someone posts a link to an important Meta discussion or another post from Stack exchange in chat. But it looks like this:
Visual aid added.
Internal links are already expanded, like so:
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Add links between related chat sites at top, just like regular sites
Regular Stack Exchange sites have helpful links to the corresponding Meta site in the top navigation bar. Likewise, the meta site links mack to the corresponding main site. Further, you can browse to ...
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Using [Chat] in comments while being in Meta shouldn't display "Site X Meta Chat"
I just used the magic [chat] abbreviation that automatically points to Chat. But while on the Main site I get Linguistics Chat, using the same code in Meta displays Linguistics Meta Chat.
Main:
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URLs in chat room descriptions don't get linkified nicely [closed]
While viewing Shog's chat profile to make myself feel like less of a nerd1, I noticed a promising link in the description of one of the rooms he was listed as being in:
Naturally I clicked it, and it ...
user154510
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Wrong link when using "[chat]" in a comment
When I use [chat] in a comment, the link text says "Parenting Chat" (or whatever the current site name is), but the link just points to https://chat.stackexchange.com, when it should go to ...
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