Kakadu Croc Problems

Why can't members learn to use the link tab? Are they just too lazy. If you use the link tab your links don't break like that one.

Hi Peter

Are you referring to me or Warrie

The reason I did it like I did as when you click on work, the link is not broken and opens to the correct details.

Cheers

Stephen, your link worked because you used the Link tab. I was commenting on the broken link. If members spent a little more time using the proper function their links do not break if they copy and paste the correct info into the function as you did.

But then if this forum format was not an orphan in forum world there would not be an issue. Most forums accept quite happily a cut and past of a link but this forum truncates it - so the insert link menu has to be used.

Not come across any other forum that you MUST use it and all other forums I use accept a cut and paste link.

Time to move into the 21 st Century.

Thanks Peter

Cheers

Stephen

Ozzie, Your experience is not my experience. I am on a few forums, they are powered by different software including XenForo, GiantMedia, ProBoards and phpBB. They all provide a feature where you can insert a link with a meaningful name and a link that does not break. They all handle short links extremely well. However, they all do not handle long URLs well at all. The phpBB software seems to break long links as frequently as does this forum

Back in the days of Usenet newsgroups the forums handled the direct insertions of URLs very well. But in those days the users file system were simpler than they all are now. The URLs have to dredge down through the hosts file system to get to the page required. The more complicated the file system is, the longer the URL is and the more tendency that it is likely to be broken. Every forum system shorten the links, otherwise we would have some links occupying several lines of text. If you use the link insertion tool, you determine the length of the link and all the URL is stored in its own container, thus it does not get broken because the forum software does not attempt to shorten anything. I think the structure of the URLs is what makes some links break.

Also, If you can provide a meaningful title for your link it is more likely to be read by readers glancing through the text.

It's only a link that didn't work it's not like the sky is falling and anyone can easily look things up these day unless you're to lazy. It's just a regular thing people wanting to travel to croc areas and whining about them and how they are so rudely inconvenienced by there presence in their natural environment. Leave them be and keep the people out.

I agree. The sooner the bloody governments learn how to properly control the wet season weather and its associated road closures, river heights..etc.etc....the less whingers we will have.......

Thanks for that info, Warrie (I believe that's the correct type of response ??).

Cheers,
Mark

Only the people that let it run down should be ashamed.