Plan B Forum

There are numerous posts in recent weeks I'm not able to read because of very long URLs breaking up the page; I wonder if folks might be willing to shorten links when posting, as a courtesy for those of us limited to reading on a mobile device?

Here's the method for anyone not already familiar:

short title the link, maybe just "linky"



Muchas gracias amigos!

So it's not the length of the link itself, just the fact that it's not used with the tags with an appropriate (short) name?

No, shorter links don't break up the page when posted the regular way. Longer links are the problem.

Guin's link in this recent thread is an example:

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17982

Here's one where the first post has a link that breaks up the page so bad it's unreadable:

viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17935


Perhaps if you're looking at the forum on a large computer screen this doesn't show up?

So what I am asking is, if instead Guin had done this:

Birth of a New Nation

does that fix it, or does the URL itself have to be shortened by using one of those abbreviating programs?

eta - and yes, in understanding precisely what the problem is, the fact that I am viewing in a wide window on a computer screen is not helping me to see precisely what goes wrong.

Oh yes, I'm sorry - I misunderstood. Yes, using the method I outlined above fixes the length issue, you don't need a third party link shrinker like tiny URL.

The problem doesn't exist on my 15 inch laptop. Oh wait.... I'm on ignore.

Nevermind....

Oh screw you, I took your ass off after a day. Bite me.

Psst, BSG...

it's clue time in the movie thread...

None of those links skew my screen, and I've tried viewing logged in and not logged in, on my iPhone, iPad, and the desktop (not iOS) at my office.

Maybe you need an OS update?

I think it also dependant on the board skin you are using.

My OS is the most recent, I always update as soon as the update is available.

It takes an extra 30 seconds, at most, to shorten a link.

Crackpot wrote:I think it also dependant on the board skin you are using.

This is the problem, thanks for that suggestion. Now I have to decide if it's worth it to me to use the ugly skin, or if I'll just ignore threads with long links.

Thanks, CP.

A few months ago I searched back to the old skin selection thread to see if the topic may be worth revisiting but all the links in the thread are dead.