New problems with URLs in Community posts or comments
Using URLs or links in posts or comments here in the Community has long been a problem. If the poster is not careful, the link is mangled by the software into an unusable mess.
Lately, I've run into new versions of URL problems.
In several posts, the URLs would not become usable links. No matter what tricks I tried, the URL remained plain text.
Starting yesterday, a new issue arose. The URL became a working link, but I also received an error message. Several times, the message was on top of the "FamilySearch Terms of Use" footer, but once I was able to capture a clear copy of the message:
Are some changes perhaps happening behind the scenes causing new errors? Robots.txt strikes fear in my heart! 😉
Thank you.
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@Áine Ní Donnghaile Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We'll look into it and see what we can do to figure it out.
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Thanks, Ashlee.
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@Áine Ní Donnghaile Can you give me more details about this issue? I'm having trouble recreating it. Which category were you posting in? Or is it across the board? What were you trying to link to? Was it a FamilySearch website link or from another place?
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At least one of the robots.txt errors messages showed when I tried to post in the DQS group. I'm not sure about the others.
I haven't seen it today.
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