trouble with the links

[bhs67]

I had trouble with the links in the first post. Remove the "." and the link is changed to the title on that website. How do I stop this from happening?

 

[Skydiver]

One way is to initially put it into your post, then edit it afterwards. You'll find URL will look something like this:

[URL unfurl="true"]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file.readallbytes?view=net-5.0[/URL]

change that unfurl="true" to unfurl="false"

Another way is to type in the BBCODE yourself while you are composing:

[URL unfurl="false"]https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file.readallbytes?view=net-5.0[/URL]

 

[bhs67]

It would be good if this were fixed. Thanks for the prompt response.

 

[Skydiver]

I suspect that due to the popularity of Slack, Teams, Twitter, etc. and other messaging platforms, people have come to expect automatic URL unfurling. It's us old timers who want a URL to stay a URL when we type/paste it in.

 

[JohnH]

'unfurling' is normally useful just for readability, it can also useful if link some time later is changed and you still have the page title and can search that up.

(moved these posts to new thread in Forum Feedback by the way)