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The board has a URL function that prevents the need for such a site.

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No it doesn't. The board's URL function breaks for URLs with certain characters in them.
 

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Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
 
...and then the entire thread requires constant scrolling back and forth, often making people less likely to read the entire page the URL is on.

Also, as CT said, sometimes you might want to surprise people, and the actual link includes a hint as to what the picture or link might be.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
Did anyone notice that TinyURL now allows custom tagging, like SnipURL (which OSC recommended for that reason a month or so back?)
 

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Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
 
What character breaks the URL function?
 

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Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
 
Maybe the "&"? I can't remember. There might be more than one, too.

(Three. )
 

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Posted by Kwea (Member # 2199) on :
 
Several of them do, but I don't care enough to find out which ones.

I can always just used TinyURL and not worry about it.
 

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Posted by scifibum (Member # 7625) on :
 
Just tested all the characters on my keyboard, and they all worked except for parentheses, the right bracket "]" (easily understandable) and quotation marks and apostrophes:
'
"
`

Parentheses actually generated an error message and forced me to remove before the "Preview Post" function would work, but the others just failed to work.

These characters should all be encoded when in URLs, so I think that's why the UBB function doesn't properly account for them. Very fixable bug, I would think.
 

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Posted by fugu13 (Member # 2859) on :
 
It isn't specific characters, it is specific combinations of characters (or possibly characters at a certain length). I don't know one offhand, but there have been several real URLs that have broken the function for me. At one point I experimented a bit and found the minimal change in one URL to unbreak things, but I didn't care enough to remember.
 

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Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :
 
_ does it sometimes, in some combinations. Some aren't allowed because they resemble code that is not allowed.
 

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Posted by lem (Member # 6914) on :
 
Now Lupus will NEVER KNOW this totally awesome site I found! Or is it just NSFW pr0n spam?


 

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Posted by Nighthawk (Member # 4176) on :
 
I was tempted to create a similar service and use the domain "thisisnotporn.com", but it ended up being too long a URL to be of any use.
 

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Posted by Tstorm (Member # 1871) on :
 
I just activate the NoScript plugin in Firefox (if it isn't already on) before clicking on the link. Without scripts running, it's much more difficult (though not impossible) to become infected.
 

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Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :
 

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Originally posted by Tstorm:
I just activate the NoScript plugin in Firefox (if it isn't already on) before clicking on the link. Without scripts running, it's much more difficult (though not impossible) to become infected.

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much easier just to not click.

I guess everyone has their weird pet peeves. Now you know mine.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Tiny URL allows for previews.
 

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Posted by Achilles (Member # 7741) on :
 
Thanks, rivka! I like that a lot better!
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
If you enable previews, it will default to the preview for all Tiny URL links you click on in the future. (On that computer, anyway.)
 

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Posted by MidnightBlue (Member # 6146) on :
 

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Originally posted by lem:
Now Lupus will NEVER KNOW this totally awesome site I found! Or is it just NSFW pr0n spam?

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