Pasting Forum Page Links: What Has Changed for the Worse Here??

[oltos]

I know that it's some kind or website reformatting, and not me, which had suddenly changed some months ago: Now, almost every time I paste a forum webpage link into a PM chat or thread chat what gets pasted is not the URL but someone's user logo and lines of italicized text which I never intended to quote from that page. This new and improved whatever is making a total mess out of my posts, like here at #15695.

Thread 'Beyond the Ariel'

2007-03-27 9:30 pm

This forum is as a good a place as any for thinking out loud about the successor to the Ariel and ME2's. Since my fall in the terrible Colorado snowstorms of January, I've been recovering, and probably won't be doing any serious audio design until the summertime.

But I can still think and write, and have been making occasional posts in John Atwood's Clarisonus blog. One perennial question I always get is how to build an Ariel with XYZ drivers (and of course a different crossover and cabinet). As mentioned in my Web page, it take me about six months to design a speaker, and isn't something...

• Lynn Olson
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• Forum: Multi-Way

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Please put things back the way they always were!

 

[oltos]

Oh, yeah, like a said-perfect example of the problem!!

AND this certainly never once happened at least as late as around March of last year.

 

[Netlist]

The latest updates embed the quoted post.
You can avoid it by placing a minus sign before the link:
-https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/pasting-forum-page-links-what-has-changed-for-the-worse-here.426142/#post-7979596

 

[oltos]

You can avoid it by placing a minus sign before the link:

Must we now always? Whoever said change is good..........

 

[Mooly]

If you right click the actual post you want to link to and copy the url you then have a choice of pasting the link directly which gives you the whole caboodle in italics or alternatively you click the 'inset link button at the top of the reply box and paste the link there. You can title the link to suit if you wish or just paste the url into both boxes.

So we have:

https://www.diyaudio.com/community/threads/beyond-the-ariel.100392/post-1188648

done using this:

Or you can paste the link directly and you get this:

Thread 'Beyond the Ariel'

2007-03-27 9:30 pm

This forum is as a good a place as any for thinking out loud about the successor to the Ariel and ME2's. Since my fall in the terrible Colorado snowstorms of January, I've been recovering, and probably won't be doing any serious audio design until the summertime.

But I can still think and write, and have been making occasional posts in John Atwood's Clarisonus blog. One perennial question I always get is how to build an Ariel with XYZ drivers (and of course a different crossover and cabinet). As mentioned in my Web page, it take me about six months to design a speaker, and isn't something...

• Lynn Olson

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Which looks like this as you compose the message.

 

[oltos]

Thanks and I appreciate the detailed options but it's still a PITA. Was all trouble free before this. Wish they could have avoided those website "updates". Excuse the whining; have big issues finishing speaker design plans by deadline.

 

[AllenB]

You can switch your post box to the traditional style and replace the shown text with "url"