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Hyperlinks do not work if they are inside square brackets
I can imagine situations when somebody might include a bare URL in post. And the link might even be between [ and ] - if it is a part of some explanatory remark.
It seems that in such cases the link ...
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Does the bulk replacement tool also check if the new link is working?
Sometimes (on the request of the local community), the CMs mass replace some dead links by new ones. See, for example, this post (and Shog9's answer): How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on ...
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What do we do when we don't have any prior research that we can share?
Yesterday, I asked this question on the Biology SE. Shortly after posting, I received a comment saying that a close vote has been posted and stating the ways in which I can improve the post. The main ...
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Can the mass-replacement tool also replace and remove?
Stack Exchange staff has a tool which can change a bunch of links without bumping the edited posts, see here: How to find and/or change a set of hyperlinks on a site?
In the situation that I've seen ...
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A Share link does not populate the "Linked" questions when added before undeletion
I was perplexed why a shared link to an answer in an answer was not populating the Linked section on the right-hand side.
It turns out, it's because I edited in the link while the post was deleted ...
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Issue putting a URL with special characters [duplicate]
I am having difficulty placing the following URL in my post here, which if I copy and paste the link into my Google Chrome, it works perfectly fine.
https://www.dsprelated.com/freebooks/filters/...
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Why is there an Ubuntu contact link in the contact pages of many SE sites?
This might be related to the cause of the issue: Change the links in Ask Ubuntu contact page
I visited MSE's "Contact" page and noticed this:
Why is there an Ubuntu contact link in MSE's &...
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Modifying existing SEDE query to output the post's URL
There is this existing SE Data Explorer query: All my posts on the SE Network
The query is awesome and works great with one small flaw (IMO). It outputs a "Post ID" which is useless for me ...
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Why does the "feedback" link at the bottom of a Stack Exchange site go to that site's Meta?
Or, in other words, why is the link to Meta called "feedback" and not "Meta"?
For every SE site I've looked at on my Android phone in "full site" mode, there is a link ...
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Markdown not recognizing characters in URLs, redux: dollar sign
I have two links which I am trying to use in an answer:
[10–4–5 (for Terminal facilities)][3]
[6–4–4 (for Enroute facilities)][4]
and two URLs which those links should point to:
[3]: https://www.faa....
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Why does Stack Exchange use a number in its question URLs?
Stack Exchange question URLs are in the format:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/36714/logic-behind-stackoverflow-question-ids
The number part is the ID of the question. The URL would be more ...
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I can get an already-logged-in window clicking on a post link in chat, but not in another post. I have to re-login a lot; by design? (Safari private)
I use private browsing if/when I use macOS + Safari.
When I right-click a link in one SE post to another SE post and open it in a new tab I must log in to SE in that tab all over again. If I don't ...
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Best practices and advice how to shorten links to comments when including them in other comments? Can I safely drop the noredirect=1?
When adding links to comments within other comments I often want to shorten them so that I can add fit more plain text within the character limit.
I usually start by removing the words of the title ...
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Why do Stack Exchange URLs expand to include an additional fragment to the route?
A Stack Exchange question URL has the form:
stackexchangesitename.com/questions/question-id
A Stack Exchange user profile URL also has a similar form:
stackexchangesitename.com/users/user-id
However,...
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Why do magic links, that work in comments, not work in posts?
DSP.SE
^ is actually
[DSP.SE](dsp.stackexchange.com/)
As a comment, it renders, but it changes text and inserts the URL separately:
What's the deal?
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