Ok, the link quirk is fixed however

[lobadobadingdong]

displayed text.

http://forums.anandtech.com/ca...3498028&entercat=y

forums.anandtech.com/categories.aspx?catid=33&flcache=3498028&entercat=y

a lot of people make longer displays on thier hyperlinks than what we now have.

what is that 50-60 char?

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

I think that truncation feature was a user request, some of the browsers weren't wrapping or something and it was messing up their screen.

 

[n0cmonkey]

This is better. It doesn't stretch the forums off the end of the screen.

 

[ProviaFan]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
This is better. It doesn't stretch the forums off the end of the screen.

Amen. :thumbsup:

 

[klah]

It is for idiots that post 200 character links and make entire threads unreadable for everyone not using IE.

 

[Jason Clark]

We are not changing the link truncation, it is there to keep links smaller. We don't need 255 character descriptions of bobs photo site .

L8r

 

[lobadobadingdong]

can we make the truncation happen at the end instead of in the middle then?

 

[Beau]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
can we make the truncation happen at the end instead of in the middle then?

I like it in the middle because if you just link the url, you can still see the doc type plainly.

 

[Injury]

Maybe people could just stop being stupid and learn to write new text for their links.

 

[lobadobadingdong]

Originally posted by: Injury
Maybe people could just stop being stupid and learn to write new text for their links.

actually that's my problem, I always right new text for links, the problem is you now have to keep it short. if the truncation has to happen, but happens in the middle, you have to figure out what in the middle of your thought got destroyed, if it was truncated at the end you only have to figure out what was left off.

 

[Jason Clark]

The way we truncate is the way that almost every other forum in existence truncates... it makes sense as you can see the start and end. Try writing shorter links, link descriptions absolutely do not need to be long.

 

[Confused]

How about a way of truncating the link ONLY if there are more than 50 characters without any spaces. Spaces don't make the links fvck up the width of the forum, as browsers just wrap round.

While it was annoying before, it's just as annoying now, this bug still isn't fixed properly.

And I can go post a 200 character link with spaces to vB and it won't truncate the middle of the displayed text.

Linky


Garry