• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

Problem in user profiles (USER ERROR)

Praetor

Diamond Member
Looks like there's a bit of a problem with the homepage link in the user profiles. On the page, it will show the link as it is supposed to be (ie www.geocities.com/myfancyhomepage), however, when you actually click on that link, a new window pops up with http://forums.anandtech.com/www.geocities.com/myfancyhomepage.

Just thought I'd bring that issue up. Unless it's an undocumented feature, that is. 😉

<edit>
Oh... hmm... it looks like the problem stems from the person not entering in the preceding http:// in the address field. If they did enter that in, then it (obviously) works fine.

Here is an example of such an occurance, from freesia39's profile.
</edit>
 
Simple praetor, those are users that aren't putting in the full http:// url, that is not a board problem its a user issue. Users should know a url isn't just www.blah.com a url is http://www.blah.com. The reason we leave it wide open is to allow users to put any kind of link they want in there.
 
Ah. Gotcha. I guess some of us have just gotten used to our browsers or even certain web forms tacking it on for us. 🙂
 
Back
Top